giovedì 8 gennaio 2015

Are web designers and front-end developers in danger because all the templates are available for CMS like Joomla and WordPress?

Over the years the website design industry has changed. It has adapted to survive in a highly competitive industry. A rapid rise in the popularity of CMS (content management system) has brought the biggest modification in the website design industry. When creating the website for your business you might come across a point where you need to decide which CMS you should use for your website.

Let’s talk about the two CMS WordPress and joomla. Both WordPress and joomla are open-source software. To support the latest technology these platforms are regularly maintained and continuously improved. They can be expanded by add-ons hence enhancing their basic function.

Definitely the world’s most popular CMS is WordPress. It is a more of a blog than a typical CMS. In past couple of months WordPress is being modernised and has become more like CMS with the thousands of plug-ins added in it. Wordpress serves as the first choice for bloggers but simple websites can also be designed using WordPress. Of all the available solutions on internet, WordPress is the simplest and the easiest. For beginners WordPress is a great choice.

Joomla as compared to WordPress is complex. Even quite advanced websites can be created by understanding a little of joomla’s structure and terminologies. Joomla does not have any complicated installation or setup. Joomla has strong social networking features. With joomla comes a system cache plug-in that allows you to cache page that results in fast download of pages.

Web-designers and front-end developers might be in danger because of certain limitations of WordPress and joomla. Let’s have a look at the limitations of WordPress and joomla.

Limitations of WordPress

· Understanding of PHP language is required to carry out certain modifications related to data.

· Knowing CSS and HTML is required for any complication related to graphics. Or if you want to create your own unique template.

· WordPress also lacks a lot of plug-ins. Some plug-ins is just a clone of other plug-ins hence the desired functionality is difficult to achieve.

· Lacks security.

· Complicated graphics formatting and table modifications.

· Complex queries.


Limitations of Joomla

· Adjustment options are limited although it has better options as compared to WordPress but still things for more advanced users are missing.

· Efficiency problems arise when there are thousands of visitors on the website. Joomla cannot fulfil the bigger demands on server parameters.

· Everything associated with joomla is not free there are some plug-ins and modules that need to be purchased.

· Some plug-ins might frustrate you with compatibility issues.

· You might need to do some serious work on PHP code to get certain functionalities.

· There are some terrifying possibilities and functions for beginners especially.


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