Drupal Anyone?

December 16th, 2006

I’ve been using drupal for the last couple weeks as a content management system for my company’s prototype website. It’s been fun to learn it. A few years ago, I was a member of a site that ran on phpnuke. I thought it was a great idea, but not quite there. Drupal is getting much closer, especially with all the user submitted modules. To name a few of its functions: It can give members their own blogs, it can run a storefront and checkout, it has forums, it has stories, shared calendars, mass email, it even handles donations via paypal, and it can control access by users to different parts of the site… But it’s also a bear to learn. Could you imagine having to learn how to operate all of those functions at once?? I’ve been digging through the forums to figure out what modules will do what I want. It’s way too overpowered for a simple blog like my own, so I’m sticking with wordpress, but for a larger network type of organization like a church. A good CMS (content management system) like Drupal would be my answer.

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  2. By djchuang on Dec 17, 2006

    Another popular free open-source CMS is Joomla http://www.joomla.org/ - worth a compare/contrast with Drupal. I get the sense both are very powerful, both have lots of modules to plug & play.. I haven’t had time to look under the hood of either, yet, but would like to one day..

  3. By Elijah on Dec 17, 2006

    yeah, I looked at joomla. The difference seems to be that it looks alot nicer, but doesn’t have as much functionality, so I went with Drupal. It has promise, but still doesn’t seem all there. I still have to do some hacking into some modules to get it to do what I want. I’ll reveal the site once it’s ready. :)

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