The complexity with Drupal

decibel.places — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:31:25 +0000

The complexity with Drupal is with the fine-grained permissions by role - which also happens to be it's strength. Role control in Drupal is acknowledged to be superior to Joomla.

It is possible, particularly by setting the proper permissions, to create a basic admin role that has only the options required by the user.

Another option is creating a custom admin page with "hot" buttons eg http://jcat.netsperience.org/manage/adminjc.html (you won't be a ble to log in, the demo is for the buttons)

It can also take a bit of time to fully comprehend Drupal concepts like Taxonomy and Workflow but once mastered these also put enormous power in your hands.

Finally, the vast selection of contrib modules can be staggering - and some modules appear to do the same kind of things, so selection is time consuming but it's like being a kid in a candy store.

The Drupal core comes with forums blogs and CMS.

You may want to add a rich text editor (the most complete/complex are FCKeditor and tinyMCE - but there are much simpler ones too) which make editing and adding content much like using Word

Just my 2cents worth on what

Greg K — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:45:27 +0000

Just my 2cents worth on what little I have played with it, but CMS Made Simple (CMSMS) seems like a very easy one for those not needing anything too fancy, but most of all simplicity for the end users who will manage the content.

I'm using this CMS for a site for a church, where after initial setup, it will be up to them to take care of the site, add new code, etc. I started with Drupal, and was planning on stripping out a lot of the admin functionality for them. (ie, to add a new page, imo, for the non web person CMS is easier to understand that the big list of options Drupal gave.)

Now this is not to say that somewhere in drupal this is a way to customize the admin for users, but found CMS offered what they needed in a nice simple to use package.

I'd love to if I had spare time write a simple CMS, but already have like 3 projects on hold now that I do web programming for a living now.

-Greg

I think you're right. I'll

Megalorian — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:42:53 +0000

I think you're right. I'll just have to try out as many as I can to find one which is suitable for my needs.

I have a feeling you are

webwiz — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:57:00 +0000

I have a feeling you are unlikely to get a definitive answer. In my opinion, it's similar to asking what car you should buy - you'll get a lot of recommendations, but few likely to fit your own needs.

I think you'd be better off trying some CMS systems for yourself. To that end, OpenSourceCMS.com offers free trials of a huge number of CMSs, including Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress, etc., as decibel.places points out above.

Hoping this helps.

I haven't checked out

Megalorian — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:14:59 +0000

I haven't checked out OpenSourceCMS or ShowcaseCMS but will do so. Thanks for the suggestion.

That sounds like a strong case for Drupal. I'm currently evaluating Joomla with a local installation.

Where does the complexity lie with Drupal? Is it with setting it up, customisation or just getting used to the layout?

What I'm really interested in is how well everything ties in together, like how easy it is to integrate extensions for things like forums and not have to hack around with it so that a single login gives the user access to all sections of the site.

I was going to choose Drupal

ms2134 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:42:33 +0000

I was going to choose Drupal last night but i thought i would wait until you got hold of this post. I knew that you might find this one interesting.

I also like Drupal, it has taken me a little while to get used to it but i am have it under control now.

I am staunchly in the Drupal

decibel.places — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:18:40 +0000

I am staunchly in the Drupal corner myself. but it does take a while to "get" it...

WordPress is cool for simpler blog style sites.

Didja know you can "test drive" default installations at OpenSourceCMS?

And also check out ShowcaseCMS (by a TWF member)

Two reasons I like Drupal over Joomla:

1. I have seen Joomla sites attacked by nasty hackers - never had a security problem with Drupal

2. Nearly all Drupal modules are free - while quite a few Joomla extensions are "commercial" == $$