Nice article!
But I have to say, I never work with Joomla, but I've worked with Drupal and I widely work with Wordpress and one thing is clear for me: Drupal sucks. It has many bugs and the way it feeds content is confusing. It took me 3x the time if I had done it with Wordpress to finish the website.

Wordpress does what you need. Another extremely important aspect of WP is client training. You have to spend hours, days sometimes weeks to get clients up to speed in Joomla or Drupal. With wordpress they just 'get it' instantly.
With Joomla vs Drupal its more or less same same. But they both need serious changes to their interfaces.
So Wordpress for me in most cases. If I need something a little more customisable I build it using CodeIgniter or get a license of ExpressionEngine where I can go nuts and do just about whatever I want.

Personally... none of three.
I prefer Textpattern becouse its powerfull, simple and truly lightweight ;)

Besides the obvious spelling errors in this article, how much of this article is relevant? Not much. And what is the point of the pictures? The people in them are not even mentioned, yet are prominently displayed.

As the name of the website indicates, this article is a big mess. I use all three of these CMSs for various purposes, and this advice is really just one person's personal opinions. Not that a real fair comparison ever comes out of these kinds of bait posts, but if you are seriously considering which of these to use, just download and install them yourself. Don't take someone else's opinion, form your own.

The main advantage of Wordpress is that it has a low learning curve, and gives you a good starting point for building news sites.

New plugins for Wordpress give it CCK (Custom Content Kit) functionality, so that when you need to add custom functionality, you can. Recent additions like the on page/post custom fields also come in handy. In other words, it gives you the ability to start quickly, and customize later as desired.

Also, I would say that the powerful CCK/views/taxonomy system in Drupal is probably its main advantage. However, it has a fairly high initial learning curve compared to Wordpress.

My experience with Joomla and Drupal are about at the toying with level. I've put both onto development servers and got them up and running. On both I gave up trying to theme. Realistically I know it's probably not any different designing a custom theme for those two compared to Wordpress, but I found a lot of information on customizing a Wordpress site compared to Joomla and Drupal.

So I guess it comes down to community size for me. Yes, they all have active communities. WP just seems to be more active.

And, it's what I know. I can theme a WP site now without having to do too much research. So the last couple of times I've setup new sites I used Wordpress so there wouldn't be a learning curve even though they weren't specifically blog type sites.

That said, giving Drupal another go has been on my to-do list for a while now.

Just wanted to say something about this comment: "Joomla is not XHTML Complaint". Yes, it is. And In fact, if you don't like the way the HTML output is done you can override it. You can even override 3rd party extensions, right from the Joomla template itself.

could anyone compare wordpress versus joomla based on the following;

- SEO friendliness
- page loading speed (same page implemented using w or j, same computer, same browser)
- support for (video, picture, audio, etc.)
- browser support (ie, safari, firefox, etc.)

Thanks

While it's fair to say that WP and Joomla are easier to get your arms around than Drupal, I think your criticism of Drupal is overly harsh, particularly your comments on options for designers, and end-user usability.

As with any CMS, Drupal has a templating engine that takes time to get to know. Once you know it, there's not a lot you can't do. Sure, it can be difficult to get away from the "boxy" look, but it's not impossible. In any case, that's the nature of CMS's in general, rather than a limitation that is specific to Drupal.

In terms of end-user usability, I agree that out-of-the-box Drupal doesn't do itself many favours. But there are plenty of ways a Drupal developer can improve the usability to the point where end users who are familiar with normal office software applications can manage their own site with very little need for training. The next release of Drupal, v7, will also go a long way to addressing this.

Finally, if you're building a website that you intend to be the start of an increasingly-sophisticated web platform (i.e. more features/functions added over time), Drupal is well worth making an investment in. With Drupal, it's rare that I need to tell my customers "no, we can't add that feature without writing custom code". The Drupal community has contributed some amazing modules that make the difficult almost mundane. And there's nothing worse than realising that the next round of features your client wants added to their WordPress site simply can't be done. Been there, done that!

Nice comparison, There's one interesting thread here
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1391277

ExpressionEngine all the way. Sure, it isn't free but what I can do in ExpressionEngine out of the box usually takes me a few hours to get setup in Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal so it shortens the finance gap in development time. If you haven't tried it I HIGHLY recommend downloading the core version from expressionengine.com and just go wild.

I've created few sites, but none of them with Drupal (though I wish to).
As a user and designer, my FIRST CHOICE is Wordpress. Even client catches a good speed with it.

These features (you listed on Drupal) are present in Joomla
* 1. Registering and Maintaining user accounts
* 2. Creating and Handling menus
* 3. RSS feeds
* 4. Customization of a layout
* 5. Internet Forum
* 6. Single or multi User blog
* 7. Powerful template system

Can't believe? Checkout my local community site here- http://dinajpurinfo.com

This article had the potential to be awesome, but it was written and structured so poorly as to be almost unreadable...

I have used joomla for ages because of the high-level of customizability...
but i'm slowly moving towards functionality (wordpress)....
I found myself configuring & reconfiguring joomla to be the purpose of my site, and less-so the generation of content.

I'd recommended Drupal especially for custom CMS.