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Drupal Open Source CMS Overview
“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.
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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.”
-Rothman Guide to Building Successful Websites
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Drupal CMS Benefits and Considerations
Benefits:
- It’s open source, free and has a large enough community of developers
- It’s won the open source content management system award multiple times and came in #1 out of every other CMS in 2008; the 2010 results have not been released at the time of this writing
- It’s easy to change the look and feel of different site sections giving you more freedom for layouts and visual design
Considerations:
As of the time of this writing, Drupal 5 and 6 are not nearly as user-friendly to administer as Wordpress. However, Drupal is making great strides in this area for Drupal 7 and through the Acquia project. Because it has a steeper learning curve than WordPress and is significantly more complex, building and maintaining a Drupal site will likely be expensive than a simple Wordpress site. However, the functionality and value you can add using Drupal can easily justify the price in most cases. There are currently relatively few Drupal themes compared to the number of WordPress themes. There are, however, websites that use professional Drupal templates and you can have even have custom Drupal themes – but for that, you need it developed for you from scratch, and it will cost more and you’ll have a smaller selection than Wordpress.
I believe one of the largest mistakes new website owners make in 2010 is to choose a basic and less powerful CMS like WordPress, simply because they don’t know or haven’t been exposed to Drupal. You can create a better site with more visual design and make it a lot easier for your visitors to find content if you choose Drupal. For sites at the $2,000 level and above, I would build in Drupal over all other choices.
