Joomla is an open source content management system which is very popular among the website developers for developing highly functional and secure websites. The popularity of Joomla is reflected by the fact that clients can easily hire dedicated PHP programmers from India who can work proficiently on Joomla to create simple as well as complex websites. Joomla means “all together” and this is clearly visible in the working and development functionality of this CMS. Most of the times clients and budding developers ask “why to choose Joomla over other CMS”. Well, my answer would be because it allows the developers to build websites quickly, with a wide range of features and at a comparatively lower price than most of the other CMS.
Let’s discuss in detail why developers choose Joomla over other CMS:
Joomla has one of the largest communities, consisting of supports and developers, which makes it even more popular in the development community as PHP programmers can always take the help from this massive community if they have any issues. None of the other content management systems have such a big following.
Joomla has a very wide and diversified feature set that’s allows the developers all over the world to create a highly functional and robust website without using extensions. The built in WYSIWYG editor is highly user friendly and provides a highly flexible development platform to the developers. The content layout and the extensions library enhance the ease of development using Joomla.
Joomla provides a strong set of more than 4000 plugins and extensions that provide endless functionalities and perfection to the websites developed using Joomla. The endless sources of communities provide a strong support and high-end templates for Joomla development. Joomla has more Templates than both WordPress and Drupal combined together.
WordPress is a great CMS. Very easy to use and operate. But when it comes to developing complex websites then nothing compares with Joomla. WordPress must be used only for blogs and informational websites. Achieving much functionality with WordPress is time consuming, costly and mostly does not ends well.
Drupal is a serious contender of Joomla but by installing a single free extension, K2, a CCK (content construction kit), all the flaws of Joomla are removed and it towers high above Drupal. Drupal’s admin functionality is painful to operate and the frontend, backend distinction very unclear and confusing. Joomla is very clear and user friendly in all these criteria’s.
The most important and significant reason to choose Joomla would be the availability of resources. Although you can find many developers for WordPress and Drupal but the huge number of dedicated PHP programmers in India who are more than willing to work on Joomla will surely change your mind. As the learning curve of Joomla is not very long and once you learn it you can go on experimenting on it forever. This has made it an instant hit and a sort of craze among the developers. This has produced so many skilled, talented and innovative PHP programmers in India that finding the one perfectly suitable for you is always easy.
As more and more clients are looking to Hire dedicated PHP programmers from India therefore it is required from the clients to know what they want from their dedicated PHP developers before they go looking for one. If it is a complex website or a website with wide features and functionalities then going for a dedicated PHP programmer who is also an expert in Joomla would be the best option for clients.