I put this video together to discuss some of the similarities and differences between Joomla, Wordpress, and Drupal. In particular, I set up some sample content in a "plain vanilla" installation of each platform, and examine the underlying database structure. Too frequently, I find myself reading peoples' opinions about which of these platforms is better than the other, and I can't help but think to myself, "You're just saying that because you learned (insert platform name here) first."
If you already have a site built using one of these platforms and want to hire me, I'm happy to play the role of consultant. If you don't have a site and want to engage me to design & build it, I can do that, too. (I generally don't find the database structure by itself to be enough of a reason to switch from one platform to the other, but that's also an option if sufficient reasons exist.) Get in touch today!
Building optimized sites has always been a major part of our strategy: they are easier to maintain, easier to upgrade, and they load more quickly. I have never built a site using only Flash, and have always built sites using HTML-and-CSS based navigation menus. They are search engine friendly and easy to expand or rearrange.
With that in mind, I have recently come up with a few other ways to speed things up. A faster site will generally rank better in the search engines, plus it will have less people abandoning the site while waiting for it to load.
As a business owner, the thought of not having control of your website is is most likely frightful. I've experienced a handful of situations where a client hired a different web developer previously, hire me to re-engineer the site, then come to find out that their prior developer has more control of the site than they do...