WordPress developers are gearing the reputable blog platform into a full pledge CMS. The beta release of WordPress 3 show many new functionality that are long stable in CMS like Drupal and Joomla. Most notable are the following: Multi-site, Taxonomy, Menu, and Content Type. Pardon me WordPress fanatics, I am more inclined with Drupal and I cannot help but compare WordPress 3 to it. My aim is to discuss my points, not to make a comparison between the two. If I will make a comparison here, that is the way I clear my throat.

You can read many articles about Drupal vs. WordPress when you try to Google it. They've been there for quiet a long time, but this "blah blah blah" is far from over because there are more and more people to eagerly try both CMS and write their experience about it. I am neither a developer nor a blogger. I develop website, yes, but it doesn't mean I'm a developer. I have my own personal blog, yes, but it doesn't mean I am a blogger. I played basketball, yes, but it doesn't mean I am a basketball player. Blogging is my hobby and web development is my passion, this post will try to compare my personal experiences among these two CMS.

Choosing which Content Management System (CMS) to use is as daunting as choosing which web hosting to go. Taking a pause and think for a while will pay off in the future. If you are going to search the web, this issue is almost as old as dot com era. Web developers, web designers, and online business owners, will need to choose for a platform to run a particular website. There are many discussion out there talking about this issue, and here am I adding a page in the web, hoping someone will be rightly directed.

In my previous post, I discuss how to set up a local web server using XAMPP. Now that we have the local server running, we are now ready to install any web platform called Content Management System (CMS) to our local computer. There are tons of CMS available out in the internet. You can purchase one if you like but there are thousands or maybe millions that are free. We have DotNetNuke, Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, PHP-Nuke, phpBB, Moodle, and MediaWiki to name a few. The most popular so far is Joomla. You can download them all if you want and try them all 'til you drop. But if you want to become a professional developer, master only one of the above because you have no enough lifetime to master all CMS.