Why to move to Drupal and drop Joomla
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- MGadAllah
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Hello,
I've been asked for the reason that I've moved to Drupal instead of Joomla so please I'd like to share other people experience for why they moved to Drupal away from Joomla?
So please join me so the benefits will be for all.
Here is a list of some reasons:
www.alledia.com/blog/general-cms-issues/...ne-is-right-for-you/
forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=293156
www.communicopia.net/blog/joomla-versus-drupal#comment-5618
joomla-gituloh.andama.nl/joomla/gituloh/...rupal.joomla-gituloh - Thanks and Best Regards,
Mohamed ... Enjoy with respect
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- prim
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Several year old links. In other words they are useless
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- DanG
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- The Wingman
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Wow - the first article I opened up for your argument is dated March 19, 2007 <
That is like dog years! Old! That is pre-1.5 Joomla.
I didn't open any more...as well - no point. Try making a comparison based on today...
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- MGadAllah
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prim wrote:
Several year old links. In other words they are uselessThanks for pointing this out my friend.
Please I want to tell that I am not trying to argument at all for any of Drupal or Joomla but just trying to have something useful for those who are confused to compare Joomla vs Drupal.
The Wingman wrote:Wow - the first article I opened up for your argument is dated March 19, 2007 <So I am sorry for providing old links and I will try to bring some new links
That is like dog years! Old! That is pre-1.5 Joomla.
I didn't open any more...as well - no point. Try making a comparison based on today...
www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/drupal-vs-jo...s-is-best-004645.php
I do believe that developers in rocket theme have more experience and knowledge, so may developers or experienced guys around here give some inputs for the best usage of the others? - Thanks and Best Regards,
Mohamed ... Enjoy with respect
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- Invision
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:arrowu: I think you posted a wrong link
It Just says it all, Joomla is far better :cheesy: And i think you should edit the topic title too :shock:
"Move to Joomla NOT Drupal" :cheesy: - Apache Version 2.2.14 (Unix) | PHP Version 5.2.12 | MySQL Version 5.1.43-log | Architecture x86_64 | OS Linux | Joomla Version 1.5.20 | pHpBB v3.0.7-PL1 | Firefox v3.6.8 | Internet Explorer 8 |
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- prim
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I just read through
www.webologysolutions.com/downloads.html...bb46ea741db870a0762e
briefly and it feels like the end-result is: If you're a coder who likes changing lots of things then go Drupal. For everyone else, use Joomla.
IMHO, choose whatever your client feels comfortable with
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- MGadAllah
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prim wrote:
IMHO, choose whatever your client feels comfortable withif it is not for a client and it is your own website, what is the criteria a one should choose according to!?
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Mohamed ... Enjoy with respect
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- raffy
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I am sitting on the fence and would like to hear input from you guys.
I started out with Joomla! and it is my weapon of choice. But because I volunteered for a project (which I got sucked deeper into), the Drupal backend was forced unto me. Drupal made my teeth hurt as I tried to understand it. It is less user friendly on first use. But as one becomes more familiar then it seems as easy to use as Joomla! At this point, the primary shortcoming of Drupal so far for me is the lack of great themes like those found on rockettheme.com.
Joomla still seems easier to use out of the box compared to the stock Drupal 6.x. Acquia, a Drupal distro by the guy who started Drupal, sort of levelled the playing field for me. Out of the box, Drupal has more settings that can be fine tuned, and has more components (modules in Drupal parlance). Mind you, I am not an expert in both. These are observations from an average user.
In reaction to prim, I hope the following are more updated links that would help.
www.idealware.org/articles/joomla_drupal_plone.php
The way I interpreted the result was Plone, Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress. But the good point was the choice really depends on a number of factors. You should use a weighted criteria for choosing based on your competencies and resources available.
www.cmsshowdown.com/competition
Joomla! seems to have come out on top. For me, I would have preferred a comparison where another control would be the user. Same specs, same developer instead of just same specs then bring the iron chef on.
The way I was going to decide was to compare the two by making the same project using Drupal and Joomla!. I will either port a rockettheme (nexus? afterburner maybe so I won't get into trouble) to drupal to get the same look. I will then go for the same functionalities. Once that is done, I will use both sites as anonymous, authenticated, backend users and compare in terms of usability, speed and efficiency.
Rinse, then repeat. After 3 or so sites, that should give me a good insight to which is more suitable for me (i.e. I will not be preaching that you shuffle over to one CMS or the other).
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- prim
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Try a different angle...
1. Which one do you prefer, JQuery or Mootools?
2. Which plug-ins/modules do you need and which JS lib do they use?
3. How about a nice looking template?
4. Do you really need Drupal or Joomla? If you are just going to have a blog then go for Wordpress... - Please reply with a direct link to the issue & create a new thread for each new issue.
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- Bill Kudrle
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Since I was perusing these forums about whether RT is going to theme for Drupal, I ran across this thread and thought that I would throw in a few thoughts. I have moved to Drupal from Joomla for several reasons.
1. Drupal is easier to customize and program for. Especially with the book from John VanDyk called Pro Drupal Development, I have been able to develop numerous custom modules as needed. I have several Joomla books, but was never able to figure out the programming model enough to develop custom modules.
2. The Drupal community is more developer oriented IMHO. This translates to there being less duplication and more focused development. The community actively discourages people developing modules that do the same thing as someone else. This results in a "best-of-breed" approach where the module that you need usually does an excellent job at its task (e.g., for dates, calendars, Google maps). Along with this, there seems to be a wider variety of available modules for Drupal versus Joomla (though perhaps fewer in number), and with the relative lack of duplication it then becomes easier to find what I am looking for.
3. I had a bad experience with a commercial Joomla outfit and tried to get the word out about what seemed to me to be their abuses, but my posts were deleted from forums and told that since (in the fine print, to me) they had stated their business model, that I had no ground to stand on. I have bought one commercial module in the Drupal community and the support has been great. Usually, however, most of the modules are free of charge and, of course, open source.
4. Technically, Drupal seems to be very forward thinking. For example, one of the big reasons that I moved to Drupal was because they had working modules related to the Semantic Web and in fact the new version (version 7) has Semantic Web capabilities in the core platform. There have been a couple of attempts at incorporating the Semantic Web into Joomla, but from what I can tell they never matured to the point of being usable.
The biggest drawback to using Drupal in my opinion has been the lack of good themes. From some recent posts, it looks like RT may be getting into that market, so that should remedy that (thank goodness!), which will be huge for the Drupal community. I am looking forward to it. - Awake Software - Awakening to Truths http://www.awakesoft.com
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