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[Quarten Friend QuartenJoin date: February 2006Posts: 20Downloads:0Uploads:0]

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So fa I´ve buit 18 sites with Joomla. But I still don´t know the differebce between Joomla, Drupal and Magento. Can I use anythong I´ve built if I switch platform?

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#435182

Hi
Joomla and Drupal is CMS.
In 2011 Joomla is winner about CMS award.

Magentor is another opensource but focus into “Cart shop / Commercial” site.
Drupal is good, but a bit different to use . Joomla easier to use.

Thank you

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#435232

Here are some ADDITIONAL RESOURCES you can look into regarding Joomla v Drupal

As for the differences between Joomla and Magento, here is fairly decent piece to read regarding such . . .

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Magento and Joomla!

One of the most reputed and widely used open source solutions are Magento and Joomla!. Their popularity is constantly growing: now Magento is translated into 60 different languages, Joomla! – into 64. Both have a huge quantity of features, extensions and plug-ins, and sometimes are even considered to be a bit too heavy.
Magento
Magento is one of the leaders among e-commerce solutions, its usage and industry distribution is really great (for example seehttp://trends.builtwith.com/shop/Magento). Magento key advantages could be considered from both sides of a seller and a customer. Some key features include for the seller:

• Great catalog management
• Marketing tools (coupons, featured items, gift cards and more)
• Advanced shipping support
• Search engine optimization
• Analytics and reporting tools

For customers:

• Filtering products in categories
• Effective and fast search results
• Easy product comparisons and reviews
• One-page checkout capability
• Extensive shipping options

Sometimes Magento is considered to be the most effective system, however it has several essential minuses to keep in mind:

• It has a high learning curve
• Slow on anything less than a dedicated server, i.e., it needs a lot of hardware resources to work efficiently
• Plug-ins and extensions are often costly
• Somewhat difficult to customize

Joomla!
Joomla! has thefollowing benefits:

• Comparatively little costs for development and maintenance
• User friendly administrative interface
• High level of security
• Simple file sharing and document management
• SEO and SEM optimized
• Mobile accessibility
• Rather straightforward to work with in terms of tweaking

Joomla! drawbacks:

• Installing and managing the “friendly” URLs do takes a lot of configurations
• Customization requires knowledge of website design and development
• Quite difficult to add categories
• API (Application Programming Interface) is changed a bit too often

One more essential trait is that Joomla! is not an e-commerce solution per se and has to be customized with the help of additional modules and shopping carts like VirtueMart, ZenCart, Shopify, etc. It wouldn’t cost much, would take comparatively less time to implement.

Joomla! – Magento Integration

There is no one-size-fits-all option to perfectly meet all requirements to an internet shop. Joomla!-Magento integration, a solution proposed by the web communities, claims to be ideal. The integration allows getting wonderfully elaborate functionality of Magento cushioned inside of the friendly usability of Joomla!.
As a result, you get a friendly CMS and flexible e-commerce solution plus the following value-added functionality:

• Allows users to stay on Joomla! and still have controls over Magento
• Magento products shown in Joomla!
• Magento shopping cart and catalog in Joomla!
• Integrated search in Joomla!

Integrating Joomla! with Magento is possible to implement, for example, by means of J!Mint (Joomla! Magento integration tool) or MageBridge by Yireo (a bridge between the Joomla CMS and the Magento e-commerce platform).
Of course, Joomla!-Magento integration will make your online store a bit more expensive, take additional time to customize and you will need to put some efforts on learning how to manage both systems or hire a professional to take care of that. But on the other hand, it could be worth these costs because you get an elaborate e-commerce solution.

Conclusion

Before developing your online store, you should outline its scale, for example, decide whether you need a large e-commerce solution to run the business. The next step would be to specify technical requirements to make it easy to choose the best-fit e-shop system.
Now there are a lot of different e-commerce solutions out there. However, the analysis of Joomla! and Magento, leaders among open source content management and e-store systems, shows that unfortunately there is no universal answer for all cases and budgets. Therefore, the final decision is strongly depends on your requirements and goals.

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source –> http://htmlcut.hubpages.com/hub/Joomla-vs-Magento-Which-Is-a-Reasonable-E-commerce-Solution

Hope That Helps

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[Quarten Friend QuartenJoin date: February 2006Posts: 20Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#435251

Thanx to
TomC and jooservices.

Now i know that Joomla is the right one for me.

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