Drupal and Joomla Content Management Features

Drupal and Joomla are both a free software package that allows anyone to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Hundreds of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal or Joomla to power an endless variety of sites.

Build

Build internal and external-facing websites in a matter of hours, with no custom programming. No need to start from scratch every time you build a new site, either. You can utilize a multi-site configuration or choose a distribution (installation profile). These provide a pre-defined configuration of site features and functions for a specific purpose or type of site, available as a single download.

Create

Manage content with an easy-to-use web interface. Both Drupal's and Joomla's flexibility handles countless content types including video, text, blog, podcasts, and polls with robust user management, menu handling, real-time statistics and optional revision control.

Administer

Drupal and Joomla come with great options for new user accounts and user permissions. Users can be assigned one or more roles, and each role can be set up with fine-grained permissions allowing users view and create only what the administrator permits. The new versions of Drupal's and Joomla's admin panel makes administering a site easier than ever.

Design & Display

Drupal and Joomla's presentation layer allows designers to create highly usable, interactive experiences that engage users and increase traffic. Use an existing theme for your site, giving it an instant identity! If you can't find one you like, try designing your own which others can use, too.

Organize & Find

Drupal and Joomla both come with many tools to help you organize, structure, find and re-use your content. Categorize with taxonomy, automatically create friendly path urls, create custom lists, associate content with other content on your site, and create smart defaults for content creators.

Extend

With more than thousands of available modules, the vast majority of your site's requirements can be addressed with either Drupal or Joomla's core and the available add-on modules. Focus your efforts on building great web sites, not re-creating features available elsewhere.

Collaborate

Drupal and Joomla focus on social publishing can help you create sites and applications to help your users express their opinions and engage with one another. You can have tight control over who can create, view, administer, publish and otherwise interact with content on your site. This is an important feature of today's Web Design 2.0 style sites.

Connect

Drupal and Joomla make it easy to connect your website to other sites and services across the web, using aggregation, feeds, and search engine connection capabilities. Social networking integration is also widely supported to help you engage with a wider audience. They both also offers your site easy ways to interact with external media and file services.

The Choice?

Drupal and Joomla both are great Content management Systems (CMS) that are open source, use PHP programming & MySQL databases. So what's the difference and which one should you ask for when GreenApple create your custom website using a CMS, it really depends on ones choice of platform / framework.

A simple thing on making a choice for are two factors:

• Customer's Long Term Needs - Do you wish to learn one platform and do updates and content maintenance yourself or do you not care about the back-end and will have either GreenApple or someone else do content creation and maintenance of the website. Joomla is easier to use on the back-end, but Drupal can be pushed to do way more over the long run, but has a steeper learning curve on the back-end.
• Web Feature Sets - Simple sets we tend to go with Joomla, more complex we will use Drupal.

Most of our customer have no idea which one they want, so we take all the site feature into consideration and pick the CMS that best fits our customer needs as a framework to build on, we then present this and most customers are ecstatic with the final web development project.

When we tie in e Commerce platform like Magento and/or Internet marketing plan your site will really start to show you how easy it can be to manage a dynamic website in real time and grow sales online, putting even the smallest business on the same competing level of a Fortune 100 firm.. This is truly the beauty of the world wide web today, letting anyone with a great web presence compete with any other size firm regardless of the organizations size!

We even offer web design and web development training for small business in Montana and Helena. If you are one of our Montana web design clients we can ensure we include back-end training with your package. Many times we take care of all back-end work and many customers don't care to know how the back end works as long as their web site is working and generating leads and/or sales. That just the way we like it too! Happy customers and work for GreenApple in the form of internet marketing in Montana and beyond, web design and development, back-end administration and website maintenance.