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After three intense months of voting, Packt Publishing can today announce that Drupal has won the Overall 2007 Open Source CMS Award. With 18,000 votes on Packt’s website, coupled with the expert opinions from a panel of judges, Drupal succeeds Joomla! as the overall winner and receives a cheque for $5,000.
Read MoreCurrently Crayonlab, Inc. is developing a community portal for child neurologists and healthcare professionals. The site is being designed as an information resource and communication portal for these specialists to find information, lectures, audio presentations, meetings, and each individual being capable of communicating by adding their own content within the site.
The site, childneuro.info is
here.Unlike most websites, this allows members to maintain their own blog, contribute educational materials, links, etc. Every information block seen on the front page comes directly from member submissions.
The portal aims for global reach and bridge the distance between the exchange of education and accessing important information from around the world.
Since Crayonlab uses CMS to provide rich and dynamic content websites, we wanted to share how the systems we use rated. Currently we are using Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, and e107. Let's see how they rank out of the hundreds of CMS website programs available.2007 Open Source CMS Award FinalistsMonday, September 10, 2007 | News | Content Management
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hereNominations for the 2007 Open Source CMS Award have been counted and the top five for each category have now been selected and gone through to the final stage of voting. With over 16,000 nominations, competition was tough however we have pleasure in announcing the finalists for each category as follows:
Overall Winner Finalists:
* CMS Made Simple
* Drupal
* e107
* Joomla!
* PHP-Fusion
Best Open Source Social Networking CMS:
* Drupal
* Elgg
* LifeType
* Moodle
* WordPress
For 2006 the award winner went to Joomla. In 2006 Crayonlab used Joomla to build the business web portal for the Cebu Chamber of Commerce, which you can view
here 2006 Open Source Content Management System Award Winner Announced
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 | News | Open Source
The final result, as voted for by judges from The Open Source Collective, MySQL, the Eclipse Foundation, and 16,000 users on www.PacktPub.com saw a tie for first place between Joomla! and Drupal. In the event of a tie, a fourth independent judge would be brought in. This was Apoorv Durga who is a member of CM Pros and runs his own blog [http://apoorv.info/] on portals and content management. This crucial vote ended up with Joomla! triumphing over Drupal by one point.
The final result was as follows:
1. Joomla!- $5,000
2. Drupal - $3,000
3. Plone - $2,000
The judges had strong compliments for all five finalists, with some of the highlights listed below:
Drupal * Has been around for quite some time and is stable and actively developed
* Well coded and has an available granular permissions system and a strong eye for security
* Configuration was a breeze
* Lightweight installation
* Plethora of modules and themes
* Exceptional documentation and has an active and friendly community
* The node concept is very good
e107 * Easy to setup and install
* Wide selection of themes and modules
* Provides lots of flexibility
* Backend seems well put together
* Drop down menu is a nice touch and is organized well
Joomla! * Very easy to install and use with lots of extensions and modules
* The documentation is exhaustive and concise
* Admin user interface is intuitive and powerful
* The backend of Joomla! is very usable and the WYSIWYG editor the content was nice
* Seems like it would scale well and provides a lot of customization options
* Large and active community
Plone * Very flexible and powerful
* Great user interface
* Very clean default installation
* Lots of addon modules
* Worth taking the steep learning curve
* Impressed with the customization it offers
* Integration with LDAP or other login systems is a plus
XOOPS * Minimalist initial install
* Great community support
* Provides lots of addon modules and themes
* Lots of functionality
* Mature and has a very good permissions system
