Joomla! CMS has in many ways been outperformed by Wordpress and Drupal when it comes to the amount of minimal and aesthetic websites found on the internet. Joomla! CMS is mainly used for communities and website portals - where the website works as an information portal whereas you see many Wordpress based websites in categories like fashion, design and lifestyle magasins and blogs. I believe Joomla! has more functionality and outperforms Drupal if we are talking an user-friendly backend and easy learning curve, but when it comes to beautiful front end and design Joomla! seems to be the loser - because there is a not a lot of beautiful Joomla! based websites out there.

Designers and people working with aesthetic normally choose another platform than Joomla!. And I guess it is because you experience so many bad designed and "more is more" Joomla! websites out there. Keeping things simple and clean is not a first priority for many Joomla! programmers and designers - which is of course a big mistake.

But there is still hope. Being a happy and enthusiastic Joomla! user I always check out the page source when I browse a good looking and clean website. And once in a while you are lucky to find a nice Joomla! website. And in this blog post I gathered the 20 best looking websites based on a Joomla! platform when it comes to original design and a clean and crisp look.

The gallery below  basically shows that Joomla! is not always for amateur designers and programmers - judge for yourself and add your Joomla! website in the comment field -  if it is not here:

1: www.oma.eu

2: www.ortofon.com