[Wolves] What CMS ???

[Political Penguin]

Ron Wellsted wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 11:28:39AM +0000, Re-LoaD wrote:
>   
>> Hi All,
>> 	I'm after opinions;
>> what's the best CMS around ? I don't want wiki based site but something 
>> along the lines of Manbo, E107etc...
>> I'd prefer PHP (so I can tweek it) but am open to others.
>> I just cant see the point in me writing yet another cms..
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>     
>
> I use drupal on several sites (http://www.1stpennfields.org.uk
> http://www.wolveslug.org.uk and my own http://www.wellsted.org.uk once
> I add some content).
>
> I did try Joomla but went with Drupal because:
> 1/ Lightwieght (comparitively, less diskspace, smaller DBase)
> 2/ modular (just add what I want/need) (OK, Joomla does this as well)
> 3/ simpler admin/publishing (I never could find how to publish a user
> story without admin approval)
> 4/ Multi-site support (one copy serves multiple domains).
> 5/ (very) Frequent updates as security issues are found/fixed
>
> That said, drupal has its limitations:
> 1/ Limited number of themes (compared to Joomla)
> 2/ Frequent updates!
> 3/ slightly more restricted layout options than Joomla.
>
>
> HTH
>   
I concur with Ron on this one.  Ultimately you have to decide what are 
your goals and the desired core functionality of the site.

Community structure - Core Drupal is better but with the Community 
Builder Component Joomla! is better, you just have to factor in time 
required to make it work correctly and some manual script editing to 
iron out the bugs.

Content:

If you're talking multiple blogs then go for Drupal.  Multiple blogging 
isn't good in Joomla! because it doesn't plug into the users system very 
well.  That said, there is a fairly new Beta system called Mojo which 
has solved many of these issues but it is Beta so be warned.  You can 
see an example of this on my site which uses it. 
http://www.politicalpenguin.org.uk/

If you're talking straight content as in news articles then either 
Drupal or Joomla! are equally good although rendering wise I'd say 
Joomla! edges it.

SEO:  If search engine optimisation is important to you then Joomla! can 
be configured in such a way as to seriously out-perform Drupal.

Security: Drupal is a far more structurally secure system and is patched 
more regularly.  Joomla! can be patched but this often comes in the form 
of additional components that add to the next issue.

Database: Also related to speed.  Drupal is lean and mean with a 
relatively small footprint, Joomla! by comparison is a heavyweight so 
think slower response times although you can manually hack lots of 
unimportant stuff out to cut this problem down.

Visual appearance:

Drupal is limited in the number of themes available and in what you can 
do with them.  Joomla! is about as customizable as you can get with the 
ability to pretty much do anything you want.  Watch your CSS validation 
though.

Does that help?