Enterprize level Website Developement – why Drupal is the right CMS
We were pioneers in recommending and doing development in WordPress, and now, not surprisingly, wide use of WP by Real Estate professionals is mainstream.
Now I am going t0 tell you that: for enterprise level development (we are doing a lot of re-dos of outdated cold fusion and ASP sites) the correct ‘open-source’ choice is Drupal, put on dedicated ‘cloud hosting’ (we use mediatemple.com) fro maximum seamless scalability to millions of users: from The Rothman Guide
Drupal is an open source content management system that uses the same programming language and underlying technology as WordPress. However, it was designed to support a collaborative community where as WordPress was designed as a publishing platform. Wordpress organizes content around posts and pages and has limited user profiles. On the other hand, Drupal is a much more advanced CMS that has multiple user roles, content types and ways of viewing and organizing content that are much more advanced.
Drupal has built-in multi-user social networking capabilities. It’s easy to do advanced profiles, blogs, forums and more without even using very many custom modules.
Drupal is very efficient at sorting, displaying, and organizing all types of content. You can create custom views in Drupal that allow you to combine content types and sort by any number of filters that you can even expose to your user base. You can even allow them to sort your content by city, location, content type, date of post, or date released. It even goes as far as letting you choose any field you create yourself.
Drupal’s Content Construction Kit (CCK) module was designed to allow you to create your own content types with custom fields without any additional programming. In general, to replicate the flexibility and architecture of Drupal and its core modules, you would have to spend lots of time doing custom development or hack different plug-ins together to match the power of Drupal.
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