1. Joomla & WordPress By: Brenda Iglesias

2. What is Joomla? Joomla is an award-winning content management system or CMS Enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications It is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone Within its first year of release, Joomla had been downloaded 2.5 million times!

3. Helpful Sites for Joomla: http://www.templatemonster.com/jooml a-templates.php http://www.templatemonster.com/jooml a-templates.php http://people.joomla.org/videos/video/ 380- Joomla+Example+Sites.html?groupid=567 http://people.joomla.org/videos/video/ 380- Joomla+Example+Sites.html?groupid=567 Samples : http://help.joomla.org/ http://www.joomlatutorials.com/ http://www.joomlahelplive.com/

4. What is WordPress? WordPress is a free, web-based software program that anyone can use to build and maintain a website or blog. It was originally intended as an easy way to set up a blog. Open source blog tool and publishing platform powered by PHP. It’s often customized into a Content Management System or CMS It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system.

5. Helpful Sites for WordPress: http://wordpress.org/support/ http://wphelpcenter.com/ http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/wordpress/ Samples: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/postin g-code-samples-in-wordpress http://wordpress.org/support/topic/postin g-code-samples-in-wordpress http://semperfiwebdesign.com/category/c ustom-website/ http://semperfiwebdesign.com/category/c ustom-website/

6. My opinion: I would pick Joomla because it seems easier, and there is a lot of helpful sites that offer tutorials on it. Sooo go for Joomla!! (: that’s it. THE END.