I am not an expert in web design but I have found wordpress to be a nice looking and easy to use tool to help me teach financial literacy through a blog.

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Wordpress. It is easy to use. you can buy template or any programmer to customize for a few hundred dollar. also very seo friendly and can rank much faster and lot of online support. learning curve is very minimal on wordpress

I don't have a lot of experience with Joomla (I did install it on my server to play with it at one point, and was not impressed, but that was a long time ago)... but can confirm what the others are saying that there are some great resources available in the WordPress community. For most sites, it's a great option and it can scale extremely well as you grow your business!

I have used both Joomla and Wordpress and Wordpress is MUCH easy for a non-tech person like myself to use. Joomla is much more robust but in my opinion NOT worth the time to learn. Wordpress also has lots of new plug-ins constantly becoming available and Wordpress is easily customizable.

I have used Wordpress the most and Joomla a bit.  Wordpress is extremely easy to use.  As a non tech person, you can do quite a lot of editing and changes before you may have to call up your website design person who may not be cheap.   Wordpress, as has been stated here, has a lot of additions, known as plug ins, which are almost always easy to install and use.   The plugins are usually free with in kind donations being asked for.   The search engines like Wordpress as the layout is easy for them to navigate. You will find that you will be able to do most of your own work if you use Wordpress.     As a result, you will be doing a lot of your own editing, additions, etc, which is good since this would otherwise begin costing you.   Wordpress also has a lot of info on the Wordpress site that is open source that will be of assistance to you.   Good luck SBLD

Joomla is an award winning CMS or content management system which is helpful in building a website with strong online application support while Wordpress is a blog tool or a publishing platform which is powered by PHP and MySQL. Both CMS are open source web applications that are freely available on the internet. Both Wordpress and Joomla are quintessential tools for website development companies and their features allow various website development accomplishments. They are inspiring content management systems which help managing website application by using the same layouts.

But when it comes to design a web i prefer WordPress because of its user friendly environment when compared to Joomla.

I agree with the rest of the responses, Joomla is a great content management system but is technical and expensive. On the other hand Wordpress is easy to use and there are thousands of themes and plugins to make your website just the way you want it without breaking the bank.

Hope that helps!

I would have to say Wordpress I run 26 websites and they all use Wordpress.

I would use WordPress if I didn't have a shopping cart.  For those who need a shopping cart, use Magento Community - You can configure it to integrate with your ERP System (QuickBooks, Sage, etc) in about an hour.

Did I mention that Magento Community is free and open source?

~ James C.

I think both have their own different ways and both are very popular. But what I see is demanding for WordPress is keep increasing and many people share their plug-ins and available freely.

I will go with WordPress, it is more client friendly, developer friendly, customizations can be done very quickly in WordPress.

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Something strange we encountered a few years ago. We have a pretty intricate site that we've had for years built with Joomla. It took years to get any people to find it, even with the right keywords. We don't do ANY internet marketing, blogging or anything, being a brick and mortar with the same repetitive clients we didn't really need the internet venue.

However, my daughter built this site for a midwife at a Charlotte area birth center and the site got traffic almost immediately. She didn't do anything other than keywords, but her site was built with WordPress.

Two identicle sites, no marketing except keywords. I typically get the same generic answers like: It takes a awhile for Google to trust your site to log it, and when did you submit the URL, and you need to do at least a little seo marketing. Thank goodness Google Places is on the web, and helps the local business guy to get listed locally. But my observation of Joomla vs Wordpress happened waaay before Google Places was even a twinkle in Googles eye.

Times have changed quite a bit over the last several years when this happened, but just an observation.

WordPress is better than Joomla.

1. Automatic pings sites for the search engines

2. SEO friendly wordpress plugin

3) Automatic RSS feeds

4) Instant Site Map generator plugins

5) SEO plugins to maximize page rank and internal linkbuilding

Thanks for sharing your experiences, tips and advice everyone!

~Berta

According to me wordpress is the best as it has come up with seo friendly features.

My vote goes to WordPress.

Dick Bendtzen, The Really Small Business Guy

I say Wordpress based on the fact that you have MANY more choices and options for making your website actually work for you: plugins and the SEO friendliness.

I am using WordPress it is outstanding platform, specially for blogging and easy creating to blog site. i am working on Cell phone site find it accurate and 100% satisfied.

Joomla and WordPress are apples and oranges when it comes to certain website needs.

If you are making an eCommerce website, you will want to use Joomla over WordPress. While WordPress has plugins you can use to make a shopping cart that is nice, Joomla's Virtuemart shopping cart module is a better eCommerce solution.

WordPress can be customized easily when it comes to editing the themes; however, the functionality of the site is more important the the appearance when it comes to processing payments and selling products online.

I say Joomla is better.

I originally had my website set up in Joomla but there appeared to be too many security issues so I went back to a HTML/PHP site for a while. I heard that Joomla corrected some of the vulnerabilities but at the same time I found Word Press. I was comfortable with Joomla but I was the only one in the office that could update it.I caught on real fast to WordPress and it was simple enough that my sales associate who has absolutely no website experience, does all of the editing for me. Its very easy and great for our needs!

Rob

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I prefer WordPress over Joomla to blog for my website. WordPress is browser based and the site can be managed from any computer.

It depends upon the user of both software. Someone prefer joomla & someone prefer wordpress.It depends upon the types,kind,length of the work.

Really it depends on what you want to do. I work on a custom built cms for large corporates and it's a bitch to work with, but very powerful. Wordpress is a helluva lot easier to work with but troublesome as soon as you want to create custom page areas, indexing and other highly customisable things. But I imagine that it's become a lot more powerful these days (I'm a bit out of the loop). I would personally stay away from Joomla and stick with Wordpress. Your another option can be Drupal. As you may know Drupal is the most complicated program among the most popular CMSs. But if you are a skilled web developer, Drupal is the best choice. A comparison chart of WordPress, Joomla and Drupal is available on http://www.threehosts.com/ratings/wordpress-vs-joomla-vs-drupal.html. You can also use demo account of WordPress, Joomla and Drupal via their official websites to see one of them is proper for you. My favorite program is Joomla. Joomla allows you to build a site with more content and structure flexibility than Wordpress offers, but still with fairly easy, intuitive usage.

We have read a lot of pros and cons about these products.  And I hope it has been helpful to those who are looking.

An excellent web presence is desired and one that has so many great features that the shopper will return again and again AND buy.  We all have various skill levels and either product will appeal to different folks.

What I am wondering is which gives you the most 'bang for your buck'?  Or do you think that really matters in the grand scheme of things?  And what about the business owner who doesn't have a lot of extra funds to either create or spiff up their webpage?

Cath

I found WordPress as more user friendly than any other platform for managing the content in a easy way. Designing a website in WordPress is much more easier than any other with the help of vast community support. I tried to build a website in Joomla and found that there is a lack of community support for any module and in WordPress you can find many plugins to build a website for you.
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