Jump to content

Critic's Choice CMS Awards


NooseLadder
 Share

Recommended Posts

Just received the nominees for the Critic's Choice CMS Awards. Processwire is in the 'Best Free PHP CMS' category. I was surprised that it is not in the 'Best Open Source Category'. ???

You can vote now.

Here are the nominees in each category:

Best Cloud CMS for SMB

  1. Surreal CMS
  2. Acquia Cloud
  3. Light CMS

Best Cloud CMS for Enterprise

  1. Acquia Cloud
  2. CrownPeak
  3. Clickability

Best CMS for Corporate Intranets

  1. Entando
  2. Liferay
  3. ocPortal

Best eCommerce Solution for SMB

  1. ASPx Commerce
  2. Prestashop
  3. Shopify

Best eCommerce Solution for Enterprise

  1. BigCommerce
  2. Prestashop
  3. Shopify

Best Free Forum Solution

  1. NodeBB
  2. MyBB
  3. Vanilla Forums

Best Commercial Forum Solution

  1. IP.Board
  2. Ninja Post
  3. Vanilla Forums

Best Enterprise PHP CMS

  1. eZ Publish
  2. Plone
  3. Typo 3

Best Enterprise Java CMS

  1. Adobe AEM
  2. Hippo
  3. Jahia

Best Enterprise .NET CMS

  1. Kentico
  2. Sitecore
  3. Sitefinity

Best Enterprise CMS (Other Langs)

  1. Mura CMS
  2. Paperthin Commonspot
  3. Plone

Best Free PHP CMS

  1. Concrete5
  2. Joomla
  3. ProcessWire

Best Free Java CMS

  1. dotCMS
  2. Liferay
  3. Magnolia

Best Free .NET CMS

  1. DNN Platform
  2. Sageframe
  3. Umbraco

Best Free CMS (Other Langs)

  1. Mura CMS
  2. Plone

Best Open Source PHP CMS

  1. eZ Publish
  2. Joomla!
  3. MODx

Best Open Source Java CMS

  1. dotCMS
  2. Liferay
  3. Magnolia

Best Open Source .NET CMS

  1. DNN Evoq Content
  2. Sageframe
  3. Umbraco

Best Open Source CMS (Other Langs)

  1. Mura CMS
  2. Plone

Best Small to Midsize Business PHP CMS

  1. CMS Made Simple
  2. Craft CMS
  3. ImpressPages

Best Small to Midsize Business Java CMS

  1. Percussion CM1
  2. Liferay

Best Small to Midsize Business .NET CMS

  1. DNN Evoq Content
  2. Envisage CMS
  3. Orchard

Best Small to Midsize Business CMS (Other Langs)

  • Django CMS
  • Movable Type
  • Surreal CMS

Best Website Builder

  1. Squarespace
  2. Weebly
  3. Wix

EDIT: Irrelevant links removed.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Greetings,

I really like the idea of this annual competition. But I am not pleased with the way CMS Critic is handling it this year.

1. Offering a free Chromebook, then requiring people to vote in all categories, will ruin the results. Obviously, many people will vote on systems they don't know just to complete the survey.

2. The voting system often hangs up or freezes on mobile (iPad Air in my case).

3. As Apeisa mentioned above, some categories are vague (e.g., "free" vs "open source").

4. The number of eligible systems is rather unimpressive. I love ProcessWire, but winning doesn't mean much if it is only competing against 2 other systems.

I think the idea of the CMS Critic Awards is terrific, and I would love to see CMS Critic gain an even bigger audience. But they are going in the wrong direction here.

Thanks,

Matthew

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

....

4. The number of eligible systems is rather unimpressive. I love ProcessWire, but winning doesn't mean much if it is only competing against 2 other systems..

Matthew ,

Isn't it the case that the 3 per category are those that won nominations in their categories? i.e. they've won in the 'primaries' so have already competed against other systems  ;)

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Matthew ,

Isn't it the case that the 3 per category are those that won nominations in their categories? i.e. they've won in the 'primaries' so have already competed against other systems  ;)

Yup.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

1. Offering a free Chromebook, then requiring people to vote in all categories, will ruin the results. Obviously, many people will vote on systems they don't know just to complete the survey.

No need to vote in all categories. I voted in only one. I agree about the form - it was horrible, even with desktop browser...

Link to comment
Share on other sites

You don't need to unless you want to apply to win a Chromebook, and unfortunately they might convince a lot of people to do blind voting. The eager to get more and more people to vote might lead to less accurate result in the end.

I also didn't like the "keyboard friendly" form. And I think  and I think that, joining to the Chromebook problem that I referred, the result will be:

1.

A. CMS with great chances     B. CMS with no chance

C. CMS with little chances

2.

A. CMS with great chances     B. CMS with no chance

C. CMS with little chances

3.

A. CMS with great chances     B. CMS with no chance

C. CMS with little chances

and so on...

I don't remember how PW was positioned, so I don't know what are the chances we have :P

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Is Joomla better than Processwire? Is Justin Bieber better than Freddie Mercury? I can´t vote because I don´t have finished any of the sites I am creating in processwire.

edit : I can vote :) A few days ago I couldn´t.

Edited by blad
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Based on objetive data:

 

 

Size and number of files:

post-2447-0-40133700-1408470525_thumb.pnpost-2447-0-64414500-1408470499_thumb.pn

 

Best Small to Midsize Business PHP CMS: 

 

post-2447-0-69483000-1408471706_thumb.pnpost-2447-0-65951500-1408471751_thumb.pnpost-2447-0-60457700-1408471801_thumb.pn

 

 

Processwire 2.4 Tree menu:

Pages

Setup

 - Fields

 - Templates

Modules

 - Site

 - Core

 - Install

Access

 - Users

 - Roles

 - Permissions

Account

 - Info

 - Logout

 

Joomla 3.3 Tree menu:

 

System

Control Panel

Global Configuration

Global Check-in

Clear Cache

Purge Expired Cache

System Information

Users

User Manager

Add New User

Groups

Add New Group

Access Levels

Add New Access Level

User Notes

Add User Note

User Note Categories

Add New Category

Mass Mail Users

Menus

Menu Manager

Add New Menu

Main Menu

Add New Menu Item

User Menu

Add New Menu Item

Content

Article Manager

Add New Article

Category Manager

Add New Category

Featured Articles

Media Manager

Components

Banners

Banners

Categories

Clients

Tracks

Contacts

Contacts

Categories

Joomla! Update

Messaging

New Private Message

Read Private Messages

Newsfeeds

Feeds

Categories

Post-installation Messages

Redirect

Search

Smart Search

Tags

Weblinks

Links

Categories

jce

wf-menu-config

wf-menu-profiles

wf-menu-install

Extensions

Extension Manager

Module Manager

Plugin Manager

Template Manager

Language Manager

Help

Joomla! Help

Official Support Forum

Documentation Wiki

Joomla! Extensions

Joomla! Translations

Joomla! Resources

Community Portal

Security Center

Developer Resources

Joomla! Shop

 

Face-Punch.gif

Edited by blad
  • Like 8
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Greetings,

If you don't need to complete all the categories to compete for the Chromebook, then the instructions are false.  They clearly state that you need to complete everything to win.  Clearly, this will skew results with "blind voting," as Diogo said.

Matthew ,

Isn't it the case that the 3 per category are those that won nominations in their categories? i.e. they've won in the 'primaries' so have already competed against other systems  ;)

I'm not doubting how they ended up with 3.  It's just not very useful to have a "best free CMS" category with 3 CMSs!  What do the results tell us about anything?

Another question: why is Joomla listed as a "free" CMS and also as an "open source" CMS?  Shouldn't all 3 be listed twice?

Also, why is there a category for "Best Small to Midsize Business PHP CMS"?  How in the world did they make that determination?  And why is there no "Best Large Business PHP CMS"?

Thanks,

Matthew

  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

At the end of the day, when it comes to public voting, I think such contests are really judging assessing popularity rather than 'best in its class' which is a rather more difficult and nuanced concept to assess. So if 10 people like/vote for Joomla and 2 like/vote for ProcessWire, does it mean that Joomla is 'better' than ProcessWire? Not necessarily. Does it mean that Joomla is more popular than ProcessWire? Probably.

  • Like 4
Link to comment
Share on other sites

You don't need to unless you want to apply to win a Chromebook, and unfortunately they might convince a lot of people to do blind voting. The eager to get more and more people to vote might lead to less accurate result in the end.

I also didn't like the "keyboard friendly" form. And I think  and I think that, joining to the Chromebook problem that I referred, the result will be:

1.

A. CMS with great chances     B. CMS with no chance

C. CMS with little chances

2.

A. CMS with great chances     B. CMS with no chance

C. CMS with little chances

3.

A. CMS with great chances     B. CMS with no chance

C. CMS with little chances

and so on...

I don't remember how PW was positioned, so I don't know what are the chances we have :P

Unfortunately with your categorisation, Processwire was listed c. :'(

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...

Greetings,

I happen to still be connected to a private forum for the biggest Joomla CCK (I maintain a couple of legacy Joomla projects), and they put on a push for people to vote.

But this is predictable. It's a problem that there are only three choices for a large generalized category like "Best Free CMS." I think CMS Criric needs to take a fresh look at the whole nomination process.

Thanks,

Matthew

Link to comment
Share on other sites

But this form has been reduced from all the nominations in the early stages Matthew where people were free to nominate whoever they liked. The list of 3 is from the most nominated in that category as I understand it, otherwise the list would be massive.

There's possibly some merit in just having it as a single process - vote for whoever you like with no shortlist stage, but the form would be so long people wouldn't bother filling it out in my opinion.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Greetings,

I don't doubt that the three choices are the result of a legitimate nomination process. I'm saying that if that process leads to only three choices for "Best Free CMS" it's not a very useful contest.

In general, one of the problems I see in the CMS world is that systems like ProcessWire and Joomla/Drupal/WordPress are constantly put into the same category, when they are essentially different types of systems. And since CMS Critic has a mission of exploring the complexities of the CMS world, I think they should embrace their role as an analyst of CMS choices, and focus on articles exploring the dimensions of the CMS world. Contests like this just add confusion and misunderstanding.

EDIT: I don't see how grouping CMSs based on whether they are "free" is generally useful. Why not group them according to logo color theme?

Thanks,

Matthew

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...