Joomla or Drupal?

Joomla. Bcaz i never used drupal...

Joomla. I used both and Joomla is rich in features and there are tons of free modules available.

The most popular products are often not the best.
Both of those have good points and serious drawbacks.
Drupal 7 did make some good advances in usability.

@richrajeevkistoo - whats your source to your claim i would be interested to see

thanks

obviously joomla.. it has lots of themes and features..

Joomla is by far the most popular and most used CMS of any, including wordpress. Look at these stats from Alexa and google which prove it:
How Many Websites Use Joomla: 30 million? | General Joomla | Compass Design

Some more interesting facts:

• Around 30 million websites are built with Joomla
• The Joomla community is big, and it’s active. The official forum at forum.joomla.org has (as of writing) over 110,000 members making it perhaps one of the biggest forums on the web.

The first caveat here is that many of these links will be just links from non-Joomla sites that are discussing Joomla. The second is that many Joomla users will have removed the aforementioned footer link.
We can then search for the occurrences of “powered by Joomla” and Joomla common phrases people use on their Joomla websites. Putting all these results in a table.
The search terms can provide low and high end estimates and the link analysis adds some benchmarking. This would imply that there are somewhere between 10 and 40ish million websites that are using Joomla today.

-Quoted from CompassDesigns.net


All these facts aside... sometimes it is just easier to use wordpress for the client's sake... that is if you want them poking around the backend and screwing everything up which they tend to do... (which i would not allow to happen using joomla)


Lastly,

Deciding which CMS to use based on popularity or most users is not a wise decision and could cause technical headaches down the road.

You should decide based on the needs of the project and the value that the CMS provides. The point after all is to get the project done as quickly as possible with as little custom programming as possible, while still providing the needed functionality and looking as best as possible.

Try this site CMS Matrix - it will let you compare the hundreds of CMS system that are available now:
http://www.cmsmatrix.org/

or you can just focus on figuring out what you want your site to actually DO then find the best plugins for your needs and if it be WP or Joomla or Drupal, let that influence your decision. Good luck.

joomla is the best one as it is easy and more helpful with internal documentations

Joomla is better, because it has more options and support, don't know more about Drupal

Joomla is one of the best open source framework offering more features & benefits for PHP developers, while Drupal is also an open source framework which offers less features & more security comparatively to Joomla.

I prefer joomla. Never used drupal though

Depends on the purpose:

Drupal: hard to figure out in the beginning, but really powerful
Joomla: popular, easier to handle

You didn't ask about it, but:
WordPress: in my humble opinion the way to go for ALMOST anything. Easy, flexible, popular enough for great community support, tons of themes...basically the bomb.

Joomla Joomla Joomla. You will not regret it. the community and support is huge. Dont think twice!

Joomla and Drupal both are powerful open source frameworks and have their features of their own. So both are worth implementing.
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Ashish Kumar

Joomla works fine and better.

Google trends shows that joomla is more used.

I recommend you wordpress, because it is far better, for optimization, and it is not so server intensive.

Joomla IS the most popular CMS. Wordpress is the most popular CMS used by Internet marketers, because its easy.

When it comes down to it, wordpress is the weakest out of the three. Great for those who aren't technically inclined, or have a low IQ.

Joomla is great and blows wordpress out of the water. Look guys, I love joomla, and am a huge joomla advocate, but joomla vs. drupal, drupal wins.

As a true developer, I have different tools... some sites wordpress would be okay with. Most sites Joomla fits in perfectly. More advanced sites, drupal is the winner, and ecommerce sites, magento is the winner.

It depends on what you're using it for, both Joomla and Drupal are much better choices than wordpress if you want flexibility. When it is between Joomla and Drupal, it depends on the needs of the website. If you need something to manage 10K articles, then drupal might be more ideal. It just depends on your needs.

joomla is better

are you going to be learning it or paying someone to develop it?

If you are going to be learning it do you have (and know how to use) a step through debugger?

Do you want to learn the community way of doing things or do things how you like to do things?

Those are important issues between the two.
With drupal
* it _will_ take a long time to learn.
* It is VERY useful to have a step through debugger to understand what is going on
* you are more closely bound to community coding practices when you build modules so you will have to learn "The Drupal Way"

On the flip side of those points (which _seam_ like negatives) is the positive.
Drupal does force you to learn the structure, but the good thing with this is that after that all the modules developed by others will also be in that structure. So even modules you didnt create will be in a familiar code format and layout.

Do you want to learn it so you can get a job programming it or learn it for yourself? If your looking for a job programming it drupal programmers who know their stuff always seam to cost more when I try to hire them from the freelance sites.

Definitely Drupal.. I have worked with both drupal and joomla.
The only drawback that drupal have is that the themes are not upto the standard as that of joomla.(im talking about free ones).

Personal opinion :

> Drupal is easy to learn once you understand the basics
> There are modules for almost all functionality that we need

get a rocket scientist degree or go with wordpress. lol. Nah its not that bad but they can be very difficult for someone just starting out where as Wp will handle a lot of things that most people here dont know about or wont tell you. Plus you can learn it fairly well in one day.

All the tools like wordpress, joomla or drupal are not perfect and complete in features. All of them are not fit for development of every kind of websites. You will have to choose any of them according to the features required by you. If the features you need in your website may not be available in drupal, you can adopt joomla or wordpress, and if those are not in joomla, you can use drupal and so on.

Depends on the purpose actually. My first choice is wordpress. Then joomla and at last drupal.

Wordpress -- because i've never used joomla or drupal lol

In my point of view joomla is best..

I think Joomla is the best CMS

I prefer to use Joomla. It is user friendly. Joomla web developers create new versions and you are always can download new software upgrade for free. It has good eCommerce extensions.

I will vote for Joomla.I am working with it and I am quite satisfied with it.Its quite easy and user friendly.So, I will prefer to work with it.

i always prefer joomla..

I like Joomla because its a good content management system. its easy to use and customization, most of the peoples are to create website by using these cms and its having the good futures

I would go with joomla

Go for Joomla because you will find help from any TOM & DICK.
But if you want to settle for serious works go for Drupal and..
...if you want to be a friend to all and an enemy to your self have a piece of mind with WordPress...they never go to sleep. Always improving.

Yes, I like Joomla very much but still doing durpal as well.

I've tested both and from my personal experience, I can say that Drupal has more functionalities and plugins more than Joomla but I prefer Joomla because the premium templates are much more professional compare to Drupal.

Joomla is the most popular, I used Drupal only a little bit and I think it's too sofisticated. But... I'm a great Wordpress fan and I think the using of this is the best choice, you take more SEO advantages then with Joomla or Drupal.

i personally prefer joomla as i reckon they have a bigger community for support

Learning Joomla is my next goal, I use Dreamweaver, Komposer and Wordpress now and am trying to learn as many different web building platforms as possible so I have as much flexibility as possible for my customers.

Does anyone have recommendations on a good place to learn the basics of Joomla? I'm a member of Lynda.com so I was planing on starting with their courses.

Tim

Hands down Joomla, due to scalability and immense community support available.

joomla! -- unless you want less functionality, as of yet, and love a code-based environment

I think drupal will be the best to work on...

I think drupal, its very user friendly and also create easily..

Joomla seems to be popular with folks who are less techie. Drupal rules the techie world.

Having worked with numerous sites on both CMS and scores of other CMSs as well I would say go for Drupal, always, without blinking your eyes twice.

Drupal is powerful and you can do anything with it. Just wish for it and you will get it done. Drupal is like clay you can give it any shape.

Other CMSs such Joomla are not so flexible.

In the end it all comes down to your requirement. If you need a simple websites with just pages in it then go for Wordpress. If you need, let's say, a community website or various content types then go for Drupal.

Drupal can be tough to learn but more you learn more you will fall in love with it. However in the beginning it can be a real pi$$ off though.

Joomla is popular, Drupal is better

Drupal is very powerful and customizable, but it would make no sense to use it for a simple site or blog - much learning and high costs if you hire a pro.

As to Joomla, it is powerful as well, but easier to master and cheaper to maintain. There's this infographic, comparing the two, might come in handy.

I think Joomla is easy to use. That has more everyone to support

I like Drupal better, it's more powerful. But if you are just going to slap a theme on it, I would go with Joomla because the market for Drupal themes is lacking. And, Drupal is about to release verison 8 soon, which means you'll have to make everything compliant.