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Part IV: Scripting and (X)HTML
content on a Web site.” Drupal is known to most as a solid and well-thoughtout
CMS, but it is hampered with a somewhat difficult installation, and its
management interface can also be a bit confusing. Like WordPress, Drupal
offers additional modules that you can add to a Web site to extend its functionality.
Also like WordPress, thousands of these modules are available for
you to download and install.
Drupal’s strengths include the following:
✓ It’s free
✓ It supports highly flexible layout and page creation capabilities
✓ It’s also highly extensible
There is no hosted version of Drupal available at a single centralized site, but
you can download Drupal from www.drupal.org and install it anywhere you
might like!
Joomla!
In discussing this CMS, we drop the exclamation point from its proper name,
Joomla!, following the same convention in other books. We think this makes
the name more readable, if less emphatic.
Joomla is an open source CMS that gives its users total control over the Web
sites under its management. Joomla is extremely powerful and offers “out of
the box” features that include user (account) management, multi-language
support, template management, and an integrated help and support system.
As with WordPress and Drupal, Joomla supports a plethora of add-on features
(called extensions) that you can download and install.
Joomla is known for the following characteristics:
✓ It’s free
✓ It’s easy for site designers and operators to use to set up individual Web
sites
✓ It’s highly extensible, and it offers a comprehensive set of management
and support tools
You can download Joomla from www.joomla.org. However, Joomla’s great
power also puts the burden of great responsibility on its operators (who run
the servers on which Joomla is used to set up and manage individual Web
sites), if not also on its operators (who build and manage those individual
sites).