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Do Freelancers Do Best on WordPress, Drupal or Joomla?

Some very interesting stats have just emerged about the freelance and contract market for CMS developers and designers.

In its quarterly market report, freelance site DoNanza discovered that even though WordPress devs, designers and SEO pros are in greater demand than their Drupal or Joomla counterparts — and even though WordPress outnumbers Drupal and Joomla in the number of projects for each CMS — Drupal web professionals on average make around twice what WordPress pros make per project.

The full report, called the State of the Work-From-Home and Freelancing Economy, looked at CMSes used by various professionals in a range of web-work specializations. It also ranked the most requested job skills right now.

On average, all CMS projects in DoNanza’s universe grew almost 50% quarter over quarter. The number of WordPress projects grew 61%; Joomla projects grew 38%; and Drupal projects grew 26%.

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What’s new in Dreamweaver CS5

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 software enables you to develop with PHP-based content management systems such as WordPress, Joomla!, or Drupal; design with powerful CSS inspection tools; and test your web pages across browsers with Adobe BrowserLab, a new Adobe CS Live online service. CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time. Also Check Out “Top 3 Features in Dreamweaver CS5”

Integrated CMS support

Integrated CMS Support
Enjoy authoring and testing support for content management system frameworks like WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal.

CSS Inspection
Visually display the CSS box model in detail, and easily toggle CSS properties without reading code or needing to use a separate utility.

Integration with Adobe BrowserLab
Preview dynamic web pages and local content with multiple viewing, diagnostic, and comparison tools.

PHP Custom Class Code Hinting
Display proper syntax for custom PHP functions to help you write code more accurately.

CSS Starter Pages Enhanced
Jump-start your standards-based website design with updated and simplified CSS Starter Layouts.

Integration with Business Catalyst
Leverage integration between Dreamweaver and the Adobe Business Catalyst® service (available separately) to deliver powerful online businesses without programming.

Subversion support Enhanced
Manage site files more effectively in collaborative, version-controlled environments with enhanced support for Subversion® software.

Site-Specific Code Hinting
Benefit from code hinting on nonstandard files and directories in Dreamweaver.

Simple Site Setup Enhanced
Set up websites faster than ever, even with multiple servers for staged or networked sites.

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Open Source On The Rise, Online Work Index

The April Online Work Index reveals that IT and marketing skills continue to dominate the online work landscape as the Top 10 graphic clearly demonstrates.

Beyond the general demand for technology and marketing skills, businesses are clearly chasing domain expertise in open source technologies, help with delivering world-class user experiences, and insiders with savvy working with social media.

  • Open Source on the Rise: The overall trend of businesses migrating to open source technology solutions is stronger than ever with PHP (#1) programming now topping the Index followed closely by MySQL (#2). Demand grows for a variety of other open source skills including Joomla (#18), Drupal (#48 – up 10 spots), osCommerce, (#49 – up 20 spots), Ruby on Rails (#73 – up 27 spots), and Linux (#74 – up 13 spots).
  • User Experience Paramount: With more pressure than ever for companies to compete with world-class user experience, hiring trends show accelerating interest in technologies that deliver and enable great customer experiences, such as HTML (#3 – up 3 spots), Flash (#10 – up 2 spots), AJAX (#12 – up 14 spots), JAVA (#16 – up 13 spots), and – the biggest mover on the list – Actionscript (#56 – up 43 spots).
  • Social Media Rising: Social media continues to gain mainstream traction as companies strive to connect with customers, drive traffic, and become part of the online conversation with their communities of users, partners and even prospects. Demand for professionals skilled in developing for Facebook, Twitter, and blogging applications is surging. WordPress (#15) and Blogs (#19) crack the top 20, while Social Networking (#38) moves up 6 spots, Facebook (#61) is up 10 spots and Twitter (#93) makes its debut on the Index.