Joomla and WordPress are two of the most popular CMS systems available to anyone who has access to the internet.
WordPress though is seen as more of a platform to be used for blogging than a website builder platform, even though it is actually both.
Joomla and WordPress allow users to create their own fully functional websites without having to dabble in HTML or any other languages used for programming.
Both Joomla and WordPress offer people a range of functions and other features that can be used well and beyond their intended purposes by using plug-ins. Anyone can have the chance to make an impressive website without even having to learn HTML.
If you look around, you will notice that WordPress is widely used as the website builder of choice among small businesses and bloggers the world over. But as popular as WordPress is, Joomla is used also widely for building websites by programmers because it has an open source nature and its resource-based community system that allows everyone to provide relevant information to help out first-time users.
WordPress is more suitable for people who are new to the whole concept of creating websites. It allows non-programmers to manage their websites easily. It is also suitable for webmasters who are somewhere in between the intermediate and expert skill levels.
The trick here would be to start out with WordPress and master the basics and if you choose to you can move on to using Joomla once you know more about constructing a website and would want to move past WordPress to use the services that Joomla has to offer.
At MDesign Media, we specialize in building custom WordPress websites for our clients. We choose WordPress is it allows the client to manage their website after a 15 min training session. We like to say… ” if you know how to use Word Documents, you will know how to use WordPress”. We also believe WordPress is able to structure the website best for search engine optimization purposes.