The Joomla Content Management System (CMS) is an extremely popular CMS with 2.7% of the world’s websites using it to create and update content.
Joomla is an open source application. This means that it is a community built application and is constantly developing by the community based on the feedback it receives.
However Joomla is not considered to be a popular choice for new users with most preferring to use WordPress as it’s considered to be a much more user-friendly application.
Joomla has a reputation for being a more powerful CMS compared to WordPress especially for e-commerce but a much more complex one to learn so are there ways that this stigma that Joomla has acquired be alleviated?
So what discourages a new user from embracing Joomla as their preferred CMS and how can the current User Interface (UI) be improved in future versions to support new users while keeping existing solid community.
This coursework explores what type of user experience the current UI provides for new users to complete basic tasks such as page creation and menu alteration through user testing and a user journey and provides wireframes and prototypes on potential ways to improve that user experience.
CMS Comparisons
Below is an excellent infographic comparing the 3 top CMS’s in the world, WordPress, Joomla & Drupal
CMS Comparison – WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal
