Do Freelancers Do Best on WordPress, Drupal or Joomla? Some very interesting stats have just emerged about the freelance and contract market for CMS developers and designers. In its quarterly market report, freelance site DoNanza discovered that even though WordPress devs, designers and SEO pros are in greater demand than their Drupal or Joomla counterparts — and even though WordPress outnumbers Drupal and Joomla in the number of projects for each CMS — Drupal web professionals on average make around twice what WordPress pros make per project. The full report, called the State of the Work-From-Home and Freelancing Economy, looked at CMSes used by various professionals in a range of web-work specializations. It also ranked the most requested job skills right now. On average, all CMS projects in DoNanza's universe grew almost 50% quarter over quarter. And that's just growth. However, Drupal projects have higher budgets. For example, .NET dropped 6 rankings, and MySQL sank 4 places.
Image courtesy of Flickr, slinky2000. Upgraded | 9 to 5 Mac 9to5mac, Upgraded | Apple Intelligence. This is obviously old news by now, but we’ve upgraded 9to5mac.com again. We had some significant issues throughout the update (and there are still some things left to hammer out), but we’re back up to full speed. There were a few objectives to the update: 1. Platform.
We moved from Drupal 6 to WordPress 3. We are losing a few benefits of Drupal, like pagecounts, extensibility and user functionality, but we gain so much more with WordPress. 2. 3. 4. We really hope that you enjoy all of the new features on 9to5mac.com and that the DNS outages over the past two days were worth it. Wordpress vs Joomla vs Drupal - Which CMS should you choose? » WordPress v Joomla! We have been reviewing open source CMS solutions and have been using WordPress and Joomla! Extensively. I wanted to compare the two and I’d like to share my findings. At some point I would also like to look at Drupal however there are only so many hours in the day and so I decided to focus on the above for now. WordPress 2.9.2 I was really impressed with WordPress. There are over 8,166 plugins and 1000s of free themes for WordPress and a massive community developing more every day. Also you have to consider who will be managing the website and I really think our clients will love this simple, intuitive CMS.
WordPress is probably still widely regarded as a blogging platform as opposed to a CMS however the solution seems to be maturing and some major websites (that are not just blogs) are now being managed through WordPress. Advantages: Easy and straight forward to set up, theme and administer. Disadvantages: May be restrictive on large projects, you could end up hacking it to death! Links: WordPress runs 15 percent of the web’s highest trafficked sites.
Online publishing software company WordPress released some incredible growth statistics Friday, including that WordPress is running on top of 14.7 percent of the world’s top one million websites. Almost equally astounding is that 22 of 100 new active domains are running on WordPress. One year ago, WordPress was used by 8.5 percent of the world’s top million sites, so it’s astounding how many domains are using it now. In July, WordPress-based sites passed the 50 million marker. And many of the most prominent blogs around the web, including VentureBeat, are also using the platform. Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress, told VentureBeat he’s very pleased with the numbers. WordPress got its start as a tool to make blogging easy, but it’s increasingly sought out by business and personal sites that aren’t blogs. From VentureBeat Customers don’t just get irritated when you screw up cross-channel personalization.
“The joke is that we have 85 percent yet to go,” Mullenwag said.