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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Joomla

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AJoomla! is a free and open source content management system used to publish web content. Included features are page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, a search function, and support for language internationalization.N/A

    NTB Live Center

    Score7.5 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Live Center from NTB is a customizable live-blogging solution that enables journalists to deliver up-to-the second live news coverage, such as sports events, elections, breaking news, weather and other streaming or time-critical news. The solution offers a mobile-friendly editor, allowing reporters to work from their desk or right from the heart of the action. With Live Center, journalists are able to create content and pull in social media posts, capture videos and upload them…

    $99

    per month

    Wix

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AWix is a website builder used to grown an online presence. The platform allows users to build their website from scratch, choose from designer-made templates, or use an AI website builder to add sections, images, and text.

    $17

    per month

    Pricing
    JoomlaNTB Live CenterWix
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Basic
    $99
    per month
    Premium
    $559
    per month
    Enterprise
    Contact us
    Unlimited live blogs /month
    Parachute
    Contact Us
    Free
    $0
    Light
    $17
    per month
    Core
    $29
    per month
    Business
    $39
    per month
    Business Elite
    $159
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    JoomlaNTB Live CenterWix
    Free Trial
    NoYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsNo set-up fee, no costs per user. Change plan any time.
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    Community Pulse
    JoomlaNTB Live CenterWix
    Considered Multiple Products
    The Joomla Project
    Chose Joomla
    As a user, it is more than OK for those standard daily operations like publishing and editing or comment management. As a developer, I have a very different perspective. Joomla! is not my favorite platform. Only ready-to-use tools like Wix can be less friendly than having to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Joomla
    I have selected Joomla when I needed an easy content management platform for a team of beginners. It's not as easy to customize or optimize like WordPress or Wix sites, but it's a great introduction until you are ready for the more advanced features offered by these alternative …
    Incentivized
    Chose Joomla
    Joomla and Concrete5 have about the same capability and similar issues. Purchasing a SAAS like Squarespace, Weebly or Wix would be worth the price to remove the hassle of Joomla. A more robust free CMS like WordPress or Drupal would be a better solution if you wanted to remain …
    Incentivized
    Chose Joomla
    Joomla is a very stable and secure CMS platform that ranks about in the middle of the pack with the other 'modern day' CMS systems out there. It's not as complex and frustrating as Magento, but it's also not as easy or robust to work on as WordPress. Thankfully when we do …
    Incentivized
    Chose Joomla
    All the reviews I read are lazy. They all say the same old, WP is easy, Joomla! harder but good and Drupal security. But that's so old, as they were measuring a decade ago. Joomla! has moved ahead. Its got over 70 languages and has been multi-language from the start. [It] was …
    Incentivized
    NTB AS
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    Wix
    Chose Wix
    I would choose Wix over WordPress or Joomla when working on a personal website or building a site for a small business. It's definitely the easiest of the 3 to use and creates the best websites - as far as design and visual appeal. WordPress would be a second choice that I …
    Incentivized
    Chose Wix
    Wix is better because it provides a more friendly interface than Joomla.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
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    87%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    28 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    87%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
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    84%
    Happy with the feature set
    26 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    28 Answers
    Features
    JoomlaNTB Live CenterWix
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Joomla! and NTB Live Center and Wix
    Feature
    Joomla!
    8.3
    51 Ratings
    1% above category average
    NTB Live Center
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    Wix
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    Role-based user permissions8.351 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Joomla! and NTB Live Center and Wix
    Feature
    Joomla!
    6.6
    48 Ratings
    17% below category average
    NTB Live Center
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    Wix
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    API7.246 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language6.047 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Joomla! and NTB Live Center and Wix
    Feature
    Joomla!
    7.7
    54 Ratings
    2% below category average
    NTB Live Center
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    Wix
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    WYSIWYG editor8.353 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.551 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section8.249 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates7.052 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes6.350 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design7.550 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow8.450 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator7.546 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Joomla! and NTB Live Center and Wix
    Feature
    Joomla!
    7.6
    52 Ratings
    1% above category average
    NTB Live Center
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    Wix
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    Content taxonomy7.951 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support7.650 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management8.049 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions7.052 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management7.150 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
    Quora Blogs / Spaces (discontinued)
    Score8.7 out of 10
    WebWave
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Square Online
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Blogger
    Score9.9 out of 10
    10Web
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
    Quora Blogs / Spaces (discontinued)
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    JoomlaNTB Live CenterWix
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (75 ratings)
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    7.5
    (101 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (28 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (14 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    7.8
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    JoomlaNTB Live CenterWix
    Likelihood to Recommend
    The Joomla Project
    If your developers want to have some fun, Joomla offers the stability and friendliness to do custom coding. Certain marketing initiatives require us to get "cute" with the interface, and Joomla allows for that a bit easier than WordPress (and definitely easier than sites like Squarespace). The security of Joomla is also always a plus.
    Incentivized
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    NTB AS
    As we have to show the highlights of our blogs in the main page of our website. We choose Live Center as here it is very easy to embed those blogs in the home page. Also, this embeding thing was done by content creator so we don't have to reach to developer always.
    Incentivized
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    Wix
    I would recommend Wix if you're more website-savvy; it is more customizable than Squarespace. However, Squarespace's modules look more polished than Wix's, which you drag and drop onto the site. With Wix, you need to do a lot more work, and it allows for more customizations, but I am a lot quicker on Squarespace.
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    Pros
    The Joomla Project
    • Security. Its got many new features in the new Joomla! 4 which make the already good security even better. I like the ability to use my Yubi keys to log in with the new webauth standard, I don't think any other CMS has that built in
    • W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 (with AA compliance)
    • Really good SEO that gets our sites to the top of the search engines again without the need for any extra things
    • Speed, it gets a really good score (100%) in the google lighthouse on our server, can't beat that
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    NTB AS
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    Wix
    • Easy to create and duplicate website, and web pages for similar products, services and campaigns, so you do not have to start from scratch
    • Find features such as video, image and button, and templates to customise your website's feel and look. For example, recently, I was able to add a countdown timer for the sale of tickets to our online conference.
    • Creating website Anchors - making it easy for you to take a visitor to a particular part of a page so that they do not need to scroll through the entire webpage making it more user-friendly.
    • The SEO part of Wix makes it easy for you to set up meta data, create fully functional social media shares that are on brand and looks professional in the Google search engine..
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    Cons
    The Joomla Project
    • Because Joomla's user community is smaller than WP, it lacks as many choices from 3rd party developers, meaning it can be a little more difficult to find the right extension for what you need to accomplish
    • Along the same vein, most of the best 3rd-party software for Joomla! is paid
    • Simple features such as Add to Menu and Cache cleaners should be adopted as part of the Joomla! core, though they are available as extensions
    • Joomla! could use a simpler and easier URL rewriting process
    Incentivized
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    NTB AS
    • The flow of comments could be improved.
    • The ability to turn off auto updates on a live blog doesn't exist.
    • Could add more reporting functionality.
    Incentivized
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    Wix
    • In my opinion, with the removal of the ADI web-building tool in favor of editor, user-friendliness has suffered tremendously.
    • In my opinion, the removal of the ADI web-building tool in favor of editor makes that a big portion of a website has to be redesigned, as items are now linked to each other in a different way than before.
    • In my opinion, the removal of the ADI web-building tool in favor of editor makes Wix only usable for professional website builders and no longer for the general public.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    The Joomla Project
    I gave it a rating of 10 because I just love how Joomla! works, how it is set up and how it handles many users. Also it is very fast, and there is no overload on the MySQL database or servers ever.
    Incentivized
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    Wix
    We will definitely renew Wix. The ability to completely control our website has been invaluable to us. We will maintain this service as long as we are an incorporated organization, we've tried several other software options and this has been the best solution by far for all of our needs.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    The Joomla Project
    Joomla! 3.x is easily installed either manually or via a script provided by your host. It contains most of the tools needed to begin creating websites right from the start. Those features that it doesn't have are easily installed via links and buttons from the thousands of extensions available in the community
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    NTB AS
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    Wix
    Great customization, but a pain to backtrack. They recently added the ability to set fonts etc as headings, title, body etc, but if you did not begin your build with these presets you are screwed if you ever try to change font/ colors/layout etc.
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    Reliability and Availability
    The Joomla Project
    No answers on this topic
    NTB AS
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    Wix
    I never had an outage issue per say. I would say it was very reliable of a website building platform and as a marketing source there was never any issues connecting it to the server. I don’t recall there being any editing tools or hosting issues. Nothing went down when using it.
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    Performance
    The Joomla Project
    Today's Modern Joomla performs very well and is robust and durable. The pages load faster than they ever did in the past and Modern Joomla's integration into other software or systems has become seamless. Modern Joomla sites will last long and will stay running forever.
    Incentivized
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    NTB AS
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    Wix
    Not complex at all. It teaches you how to use their platform in a dynamic way. Each tutorial offers an explanation that can be reviewed later on. The connection speed of a web page has been smooth so far, with no major problems regarding this subject. Overall, Wix can manage 10+ pages with great connection speed.
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    Support Rating
    The Joomla Project
    Between the core Joomla developers who are excellent at answering questions and providing support, you have a whole community of developers who work with Joomla and are happy to help fellow developers out answering questions and supporting the Joomla project. Out of the many communities I am involved in for open-source software, Joomla's community is by far the best.
    Incentivized
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    NTB AS
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    Wix
    As stated before I didn’t use the support as I did not have the feature and did not often enough need the help. I was able to figure it out mostly on my own by exploring the site. I’ve found exploring and playing on it told me how to do most things.
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    Online Training
    The Joomla Project
    It is good if you know Joomla! if not it can get a bit confusing
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    NTB AS
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    Wix
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    The Joomla Project
    Joomla has gone through tremendous growing pains. It is now better than ever. But before, when it was going from 1.5-2.5, the templates and plugins would break over and over again. If you don't understand what Joomla was trying to do back then, you might have a bad attitude toward it. Today, those pains are over and things don't break like they used to during that time period.
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    Wix
    Like I said I was a beginner so it was fun to navigate and teach myself how to implement the features when building and maintaining my site. It was a fairly easy place to host my domain, and creat something simple.
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    Alternatives Considered
    The Joomla Project
    We tested other platforms like WordPress, Magento and some local CMS. 
    But Joomla offered us better resources for generating content.
    Joomla is a CMS suitable for many types of projects, especially if you have several people editing content at the same time.
    It allows you to maintain visual standardization and offers many options for working with images.
    With its ability to control access to different articles, categories or even different components, it is a great tool, even if they are managed by different people.
    Incentivized
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    NTB AS
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    Wix
    Wix is a great starting platform for anyone looking to create a website. It definitely holds its own against any other all in one website creation platform. The one thing I would say is if your main focus is solely on eCommerce you may be better off using something like Squarespace which is specifically designed for that market.
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    Scalability
    The Joomla Project
    No answers on this topic
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    Wix
    I give this rating to Wix because it's a great content creator. It has a great platform and also offers great customer service. If you encounter any technical issues, with Wix you will find a solution. For premium members or domain holders, this is the same as for Trial members or non-domain holders.
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    Return on Investment
    The Joomla Project
    • Joomla has reduced our costs of rolling out a new website because it uses less developer time and can be rolled out by individual users as needed.
    • Joomla has a lot of extensions and add-ons that make it easy to create and implement advanced solutions quickly.
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    NTB AS
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    Wix
    • Wix has helped the companies I've worked with to promote their products and events. Without Wix, it would be extremely difficult to create landing pages for email campaigns or advertisements so, Wix has enabled us to save a lot of marketing and design labor.
    • As a marketer for a non-profit (and previously for a startup), Wix has helped the companies I've served to build marketing campaigns despite having little to no marketing budget. Because many of its features are free or affordable, small businesses and non-profits receive a huge ROI since there isn't much investment required.
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    ScreenShots

    NTB Live Center Screenshots

    Screenshot of Mobile-friendly editor which dynamically renders to different screen sizes.Screenshot of Interface with real-time preview of posts.Screenshot of Customizable design allowing for a blended live blog design with the rest of a site.Screenshot of Ability for users to create custom post types and post elements to enhance their live coverageScreenshot of Flexible integration avaialble - choose between Iframe, JS, API, or AMP enables emnbedsScreenshot of Sport scoreboards with user-expandable elements available for sports live blogging