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Joomla Vs WordPress: A Comparison
Whenever a person seeks to build his own website, the first thing that comes to the mind is a content management system or CMS. CMS not only helps you manage your website all by yourself but also saves a lot of your money on maintenance of your website. Some of the CMSs are so easy to handle that one can manage it without or very little knowledge of the technology. Among all CMSs, Joomla and WordPress are the most popular ones. If you are one of them, this article will definitely help you to end up with the best-suited CMS for your website.
Let’s start with WordPress. It is considered the easiest content management system to install and use. Many people opine that it is the ideal platform for bloggers. However, very few people know that WordPress content management system can be customized easily to match with your wants and needs. To customize WordPress, you don’t need to have extensive programming knowledge. Moreover, there are a number of WordPress plugins that can be installed to your website easily. This technology gives your website an in-built platform that can allow your visitors comment on your posts automatically, and you don’t need to build additional scripts for the same. However, this technology does not allow a suitable stage for developers. For this, whenever the developers try to upgrade their website, they end up with numerous bugs.
Pros and cons of WordPress:
It is simple to use. There is no need for modifications. It is good for blogging and sharing your thoughts in an orderly manner. The CMS is so handy that a technologically challenged person can use it. It is not developer friendly It is supported by an expert community. Upgrading it website may result in more bugs.
Now let’s discuss Joomla. If WordPress is bloggers’ paradise, Joomla is best for website administrators, developers, and designers. In other words, it allows developers and designers to make an interesting and attractive website easily by simple and advance level modifications. It can be integrated with new tools and many new plugins. Though it sounds little difficult for the tech-newbies, the user interface is very easy to use, even for the beginners. It is quite user friendly, in other words.
Pros and cons of Joomla:
It is developer friendly. If you love coding, then Joomla should be your pick. It is supported by a strong community to help the end users. This can be used to make attractive website with customized features and plugins. The technology however, is not very user friendly, as the previous one.
However, your choice of a specific platform depends on the purpose and motif of your website. There are a number of factors that play a vital role such as your programming knowledge, your primary budget, your resources etc. In short, WordPress is very easy to use, thereby the best solution for beginners. On the contrary, Joomla needs a bit technical knowledge. So if you have that or have proper resource to do that, it is best you. The choice is yours.
Refraction Theme Review – A RocketTheme WordPress Theme
RocketTheme started developing WordPress themes in 2009. Refraction theme is one of their early efforts, yet it’s a fantastic design (one of my favorite RocketTheme designs).
If asked to sum up RocketTheme with one word, I’d say “stylish”.
When you check out RocketTheme WordPress themes, you’ll appreciate the incredible attention to detail. Refraction theme certainly qualifies.
However, Refraction doesn’t stop at just being stylish. It has great functionality and customizable options as well.
Refraction Theme Features In Detail
Major Widget Use
The home page has 14 widget locations. All inner pages offer 10 widget locations. The use and importance of widgets for WordPress has exploded recently.
Widgets are a primary vehicle for customizing your theme. Where there is a widget placement, you can pretty much insert any type of content – text, images, video, etc. without knowing any php coding at all.
10 Designs-In-One
Another common feature among RocketTheme WordPress themes is they come with several color-schemes. The Refraction theme comes with 10 color schemes. You change the color scheme simply by clicking a button. This gives you great design flexibility.
I have a poor sense of design, so I like relying on the color scheme and designs that are the default in themes and templates. That’s why I like themes that offer several design options built-in.
Not only do you get color-customization, but you can choose from several typography settings. We all don’t like the same font. RocketTheme understands this and offers several typography styling options that cover titles, headings, and content text.
Home Page Slide Show
Many websites these days feature a slide show above the fold on the home page. With the Refraction theme, the slide show presents a featured post with a link.
Home Page Featured Posts with Thumbnail Imaging
Go to any newspaper or magazine site and you’ll see excerpts of stories on the home page with a small image next to it. These are “featured posts”. Refraction theme has this option for you as well. You can list your best content with thumbnail images on your home page if that’s the look and navigation you want on your website.
Even though the featured posts layout is commonly found on newspaper and magazine websites, you’re seeing it more and more on business and corporate sites as well. It’s a stylish and effective way of presenting your most important information on the home page.
Widgetized Footer
The old-school WordPress themes made it difficult to place content in the footer. Footer content is content that appears on every page and post of a website. It’s like a sidebar but at the bottom of a website.
The Refraction theme offers a widgetized footer so you can place any content in your footer very, very easily.
Support
With a purchase of the Refraction theme (via RocketTheme club membership) you get 9 tutorials to help with setting up and customizing your Refraction theme.