Craft vs Joomla

• Craft is built to digital products developers, so its workflow is great.
• It has a very nice interface and is a beautiful tool.

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• It is very easy to create any project using Joomla. Easy to use and easy to publish and maintain.
• Joomla! has many add-on and extensions to support the full range of features.
• It is based on Open Source with the strong support from many communities

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• Could use a more robust implementation of rich text editor.
• Some functionality that requires plugins, for example, advanced field management, should be part of the core install.
• It should be a bit easier to brand the control panel w/logo and color scheme.

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• Updating was never as seamless/easy as it seems to be with Wordpress. Obviously we accounted for this with our own workflow/methods, but I remember whenever we did WordPress updates it always seemed a breeze compared to the time/energy involved with a Joomla update/upgrade.
• For a while (I think this has changed some) Joomla left itself open to attacks when administrators were not as well versed as they should be. There were developer additions that did security checks/audits for you, but the CMS was the subject of a lot of attacks when left in the hands of our clients for a long time (who had changed permissions to make editing easier/convenient). Ideally the CMS would have been more restrictive on some of these things to prevent easy abuse. Obviously this is more the fault of the misinformed/human then the CMS, but it could have been more dummy-proof.
• No native versioning. There are some community extensions that add this functionality, but they pale in comparison to the versioning plugins of other CMS's (WordPress specifically). Again this was some time ago and in our experience, it could have changed by now.

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• We used the free version of Craft, so it had a positive impact for us.
• Craft helped us undestand how to manage some parts of our projects, so it had a positive impact for us.

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• Reduces Maintenance Expense - Simple interface saves clients money on site management by allowing inhouse management where desired
• Ease of Updating - Reduces website upgrade expense by allowing template upgrades without the need for redevelopment of content
• Scalability is huge - Client gains entry to an enterprise level web presence with a smaller budget and can grow/add functionality as the budget allows without a redevelopment of the entire site.

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