Drupal
// November 4th, 2010 // No Comments » // Drupal
As far as CMS go you tend to see most people recommending WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. There are hundreds of other CMS platforms but these are often quoted as the three main ones.
The thing that separates these three platforms tends to be the complexity involved – WordPress is considered the simplest, then Joomla followed by Drupal.
My issue with WordPress is that it’s predominantly a blogging platform – and a very good one. With a fantastic community of developers developing add-ons and themes WordPress can no doubt be used as a generic CMS system – I admit that I am often amazed at how people utilise WordPress! However I get the impression that with WordPress you need to hack it a little to get what you want. I believe you end up needing to compromise because of it’s blogging origins.
At the other end of the scale appears to be Drupal – a more fully featured CMS however often regarded as too complicated for most.
So in between is Joomla and this seemed to be the logical choice for me however when I last looked at Joomla I wasn’t that impressed – I didn’t think it was that easy to use at all.
So with Joomla ruled out I’ve decided to bite the bullet and look at Drupal, so far I am impressed with the documentation and the community. Whether it fills my needs remains to be seen…
