Browsing by Author "Sinisalo, Seppo Hannu Ilari"

Welcome, in this thesis, some of the higher ranked, popular web content management software (CMS), namely Drupal, WordPress, Joomla and Plone, are compared by usability, from a developer’s perspective, and by performance of the resultant site build with these CMSs, to find out, among other topics, about their potential to build websites to different needs. This thesis tries to discover if a CMS exists, in this selected group, that is a clear choice above the others in both usability and performance. A substantial portion of source material for this research comes from measurements, and small demo systems built and used, in addition to any literature sources used and experience garnered from career as a web developer. In this thesis, we provide an overview of these four selected CMS; their characteristics, statistics and how they measure up to each other. And so doing, expand upon the still narrow research done in this field.