Hi Tonsai
A bit more explanation would be very helpful - don't you think so?
On Nov 23, 8:11 pm, "
tonsai.me...@googlemail.com"
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tonsai.me...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> drupal :)
Drupal, Joomla, TYPO3 and other CMS have all their own benefits. As a
summary you could say:
Joomla is a nice click and go box but it always stays a box with very
hard borders. If you need a small (not of security trimmed site) and
have no special wishes click and go with joomla ;-) But I really not
recommend Joomla for sites which need to work with more then 1 editor.
If you want to make Joomla more secure for more editors you can Hack
the Core but then you won't be able to upgrade easily to a higher
version ;-)
The Belgium Drupal is nice for social networking. So if you wanna
design an online community it might be a good system even out their
are meanwhile much better online community systems then Drupal if you
only need the community feature. The main problem in Drupal is the way
they organise the content. Ok if you are a master of Taxonomy (the
word is meaning order and arrangement) and Nodes then it might work
out for you but I guess most editors don't know about a Taxonomy
System at all and need to learn it from scratch. Taxonomy is good to
group content and you can assign content o each other easy. Read more
about Taxonomy here: If you have a site with only frontend editors
this might not be a point but if you have to work with many backend
editors its a problem and many are complaining about this and it needs
lots of training to get thru it.
TYPO3 does it much simpler. It is using the well known Folder/Filetree
from any OS as a Pagetree and you can very easy move around pages and
content. Additional they are using a Storage Folder Concept to store
content like News or extension specific content.
The other much bigger problem in HUGE sites is the rights management.
In Joomla you better forget about this point at all. But also Drupal
has no real role model and separation of admin and simple registered
users. You can only choose rights for actions which is really unuseful
in sights i.e. like the UNESCO site or sites of any bigger
organisation with concerns in security!
In TYPO3 you can assign each single thing to a special purpose/user/
role. i.e. if someone is allowed to click here ore there or is only
able to read something vs to write something. The User rights
Management of TYPO3 is the best you can get on the OpenSource CMS site
beside Red Dot (which isn't Open Source). TYPO3 can be clustered,
Backend and Frontend can even run on separate spaces, you can maintain
your site via a remote site and if you have a look to the sites made
with TYPO3 you will see that the ranges are endless what you can do
with TYPO3. This is the main fact why in Europe more and more
Companies and Organizations switch to TYPO3. There is also a faster
growing TYPO3 Market in US and also in China! Check out some of the
TYPO3 agencies in Germany or Netherlands and you will see that this is
simply a totally other dimension of business the TYPO3 people are
working in - compared to those working with drupal and joomla.
In Terms of Compatibilty you will often face huge problems with Drupal
as many modules are not backward compatible. Also uploading Modules is
more complicated. In Joomla most modules are backward compatible and
in TYPO3 you can very easy upgrade your plugins and extensions by the
integrated extension manager. It allows you also to switch back to a
former version!
Templates:
If you are looking for Drupal Templates it is quite boring to find
some free one. In Joomla you have lots and colorful but most of them
are not backward compatible. In TYPO3 you have some free one and since
WEC we have over hundreds of easy to install, customizable free
Templates.
Future Development:
Drupal: Dries Buytart (Drupal Lead Developer): Drupal never had an
official roadmap, and will never have one. People perceive a roadmap
as a list of formal deliverables; they feel stranded when the roadmap
is changed, and get upset when functionality is not completed in time.
Volunteer-driven projects like Drupal can't make any guarantees.
Things happen, or not. Code is ready, when it's ready. Volunteer-
driven projects don't mix well with official roadmaps.
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This is causing problems for future developments as it s't really sure
what is going on in future and where the road might go. But companies
and organizations need a CMS which is also reliable in future
developments ;-)
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In Joomla you have a roadmap but until now - even since all those
years since Joomla get parted from Mambo there is absolutly no
steadiness and with each new realease you need to fear that you have
to start new.
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In TYPO3 a roadmap is existing and there are regular reports about
what is going on. This gives companies lots of security for future
investments.
http://typo3.org/development/roadmap/
http://typo3.org/development/roadmap/berlin-manifesto/
http://jeffsegars.com/2008/10/19/frontend-editing-for-typo3-43/
Another big plus of TYPO3 is the Management of Digital Assets and the
possibility to edit your pictures in the Backend if needed.
By the way TYPO3 is available in THAI!
But which CMS should I use for what?
1.) You want to run a small private site and you don't need a real
blog and are happy with an english backend then run Joomla, if you
also want to run a blog then run Drupal. (or even better run eZ-
Publish - have a look at the end of this text)
2.) You want to run a private or business site where many users could
contribute text then run your site in Drupal if you don't need to
secure your content somehow. Every normal user is allowed to edit his
own content. Don't use TYPO3 for this purpose if you don't have much
time to build up this site. If you are ineterested that even different
usergroups can submit content via sms, mms, life video and more then I
recommend you eZ-Publish. It is way better for this purpose then any
other CMS.
3.) You want to build up a site for SME or Organisation where
different users should have different rights and areas where they will
be able to access and edit or read content. You want perhaps even
combine an Intranet with your site. For this purpose I recommend Red
Dot (if you have the necessary "small amount of funds" :-) or TYPO3
(Open Source and free upgrades and Thousands of free mdules) - You
need to calculate a bit more time to get your site well organized with
all user rights and features (as there are simply many options you
have to consider about) - If you don't care about this and want to
have a site now you can also try Drupal but for sure the security and
user rights management will cause you lots of headaches and perhaps
even much more time then the complete site in TYPO3 would take. Also
here eZ-Publish - especially eZ-Flow combined with the Newsletter and
eCommerce module might be the right mix you would need. An eZ-Flow
site takes about 30 Minutes to set up and Customization can start.
4.) You want to build up a website but don't have much knowledge about
any CMS
Best choose a qualified Agency and ask them what they would recommend
for your purpose. If you still want to build your site by yourself you
can use an Agency which offers continues assistance and training.
i.e. You could use the WEC-Starter Package - comes along with News,
Forum, iCalendar, Staff Directory, Guest Book, Smooth Gallery, Job
Board, Podcasting, Blog, Discussion and Commenting on sites, Simple
Google Map, Frontend User Map, ePresentation, Flash Player and much
more - (it has already 80 Templates integrated which you can click
clack site by site or for whole branches)
or
i.e. use T3Pack which is based on WEC-Starter Package but it is
already customized for the needs of SME, Companies and Organizations.
Additional to the above mentioned features it comes along with
Organisation Chart, Wiki, Yellow Pages (incl Google Map, different
size of adds xs - xxl), Memberpages/Management, Real Estate/Rental
Manager with integrated Gallery, Big Job Board, Classifieds, Seminars/
Conference Manager, Music Manager, Video Gallery, Galleries with
eCard, send News Feature, Tip a Friend and more - all features are
easily to activate and deactivate by a simple click in the Feature
Manager, Instead of building up a site from scratch we just go the
other way and deliver a working site which gets customized. This way
the customer can start working on his site already on the second day
(actually after 3 hours if he host with us) He will be guided thru the
whole development process by online "on the job" training. Additional
to the above mentioned templates these sites come along with over 150
ready to use templates (soon much more) which then can be customized
easily.
or
use one of the Drupal Microsites if you only need a site to be set up
in the next couple of hours and you won't need no future extension of
this site.
or
use eZ-Flow or eZ-Publish which have a way better backend than TYPO3
and Drupal - it has a very good user rights management - fulfils all
criteria for a community, social networking website, it is maintained
by an open source company which ensures you a very stable and reliable
coding and development, It is easy to setup and it has multimedia
features you need to install in drupal or TYPO3 separate. On the other
hand you should know what you are doing as the free communities like
you know them from TYPO3 or Drupal are simply missing or not really
helpful.
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The future in most CMS development will be the usability for the
customer and NOT the one for the developer. People will focus more and
more on SERVICE and continues Service and Training. This was a big
manko in the past years especially in the open source sector but it
changes more and more as you can see on support models of Magento /
Silverstripe / eZ-Publish / and many others will follow.
Our big chance here in Thailand is actually to get these or similar
combined support models running from Thailand. Therefore we need a
much much better English proficiency, we need "on time" agile
development and we need to meet international standards and biggest
demand - we need to have enough qualified human resources which are
able to work with Frameworks - (so perhaps the education has to take
more care about this! More Zend / Varien / eZFlow/ Flow3 instead of
cobol ;-)
Thailand has a very good geographical situation as a hub to reach out
to China which will be the biggest market in the next couple of years.
Unfortunately at the moment it seems that it is only using 25% or less
of its current IT potential. Why?
Andi