Your input, please.
Really? That’s all the information you’re going to give?
How big is your site going to be? What is its main focus? What features do you need it to have? How experienced are you are playing around in PHP code? All of those things, and probably many more, are crucial in determining whether a CMS like Drupal will be right for your needs.
I’d like to give some kind of meaningful response, really. The only problem is that I don’t what dupal is, and your OP isn’t very informative.
Did Rupaul & Drew Carey have some unfortunate transporter accident?
(…cause I’m not cleanin’ it up. Nuh-uh.)
Drupal 6.19 and 5.23 released
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Download Drupal 5.23Drupal 6.18 and 5.23, maintenance releases which fix security vulnerabilities are now available for download.
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Well, if you don’t know what it is, you can’t possibly give a meaningful response. It’s a CMS, Content Management System. It’s the underlying structural system for thousands of websites. Think Wordpress on steroids.
If You DO know what it is, I’m not asking for a complete assessment of my particular situation, just your general opinion of it, whether you think it’s good, bad, impossible to learn for anyone but a supergeek, the smart choice for marketing, buggy, brilliant…whatever.
I vote no.
Ok, then:
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I played with Drupal a few years back, for a while. I could not quite get my head around using Taxonomies, which seem pretty important for defining structure. I gave up at that point, and have not tried it again. I went with Joomla, which I could get my head around.
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I used drupal for one of my website, I found it very flexible but hard to learn (compared to joomla), and there was some seemingly easy stuff that was lacking (like not being able to cut up a long article into several pages, and inserting an image was a long process), and I didn’t find their support system to be very helpful. I might have used it for two years? I think it’s a powerful cms but you have to know how to google stuff to help you.
Then, when I switched hosts the backup of the mysql databse backed up jack shit and so I lost all my data (I wasn’t able to know if it was a drupal issue or an hosting issue, since my other databases of other cms and forums saved fine, but I can’t rule out a fluke on my hosting part). There is no easy way to back up a drupal website, as far as I know. I had the bulk of my articles on my hard drive but there was many many small articles I had written on the fly on the website that were lost.
So I said, “fuck that!” and I used a really easy to use and very basic cms ( http://www.websitebaker2.org/en/home.php ) to redo my website, figuring the day I’ll get tired of my website, someone will easily be able to take it over.
I’m bookmarking this page for names of content systems. At least, until there’s a thread about which one is best.
Except for the Joomla part, I agree with this. Drupal is seriously powerful, but it seems like it has a really steep learning curve and I just wasn’t interested in learning when a WordPress install and a bunch of plugins could do mostly the same thing with much less headache.
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I use Expression Engine, because the design is 100% HTML/CSS, and the backend CMS is 100% modular. A little bit clunky and confusing, but that can be said of every CMS.
Never on Thursday.
Fair enough. Then I’ll respond with a question that came to me last night.
What would eBay be in Pig Latin?
Only on Thursday!
Haven’t we done this thread before? IIRC, it didn’t end well…
Drupal and e107 are the two big CMS that are free. There are others probably easier to use, but you have to pay.
I’ve used both on websites and they were fairly easy. I never wasn’t able to do what I wanted, but I like to keep my websites pretty simple. I think the more complex and fancy you make it, the quicker the user may get frustrated and leave your site.
The only way to know really is to install them and see. Both Drupal and e107 are very powerful and you may only need them to do
I know when I was playing with wikis, I have one site with PMWiki which is much easier to set up than MediaWiki (used by the Wikipedia). But in the long run MediaWiki is better as the support is all over the place, where the support is very limited for PMWiki.
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