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Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress are the 3 most popular content management systems according to Alexa and most webmasters. They all have their own blend of features and options that allow for extremely powerful and well-built web sites. With such feature rich systems it is important to understand the different aspects of each one to help with making a better choice as to which CMS fits you.

It should be noted that this chart is written from a web developers perspective and I am fairly experienced with creating sites with a CMS or without. I have used all 3 systems for developing web sites, but strictly stick to Drupal now as it allows me to built the most powerful sites the easiest.

Update: So I decided to go back to my old design. I really liked the new design, but it was just harder to read through and navigate around in. I could see it working for some types of sites, but not this one, so I'm back to my roots :).

I have been super busy with building out my company, MarvQuin, lately, but I got a bit of time tonight to relax and create a new design for this site. Hopefully it works out, I'm a fan.

I guess I somewhat know the answer to blogs using / at the end of the URLs, but I don't fully understand it.

From my understanding, this is more search engine friendly because it is showing the search engines that since the URL does not have an extension (ie: .html, .php, .asp) it is a directory. The proper way to show a directory is by including the trailing slash (/) at the end. That's cool, but it is not a directory and it doesn't matter whether it's proper or not.

I have recently really started to get into blogging because, well, it makes sense. Yes I know people have been doing it for years on end but I'm slow to react to this type of thing and just warming up so TAKE IT EASY!

I have noticed in the last few years pretty much everyone that is serious about the web is switching to some type of blog or CMS (content management system) format with their website - and for good reason! There are many benefits that are provided by the various open-source applications out there such as: