Drupal discussions

[sfrose]

So the CMS we decided to use at work is Drupal. See JVibe.com. It is better and worse than the proprietary CMS that other sites at JFL have been using (and which requires $$$ for major updates

Comments

[bovil]

I looked at drupal for my personal sites, but wasn't thrilled with it. I ended up going with Joomla instead (well, I tried out Mambo on a little prototype site and kind of liked it, and when I finally got the push to switch it was when they had the big spat over open source and split).

[sfrose]

Joomla was on our list. The designer was pushing for drupal, so that was mostly why we went in that direction. Though I really wish that I knew then what I know now. :-)

[thirdworld]

I'm working with Drupal right now. Still new at it, just created a couple of simple sites. It seems pretty potent and it just won the award for best open source CMS of the year. It has issues, as do all CMS systems, but it has the most momentum and is likely the best one out there right now. I may be a bit hard to reach at times, but count me in.

[sfrose]

JVibe is not simple. Perhaps if we were able to start with simple first, it would have been easier. However, between the designers "vision" and the manager's "wish list", I had to dive into the deep end of the drupal pool...

[thirdworld]

Have you been creating your own modules?

[sfrose]

Not yet, though the flash block is a module that was created for us (more on that later...)

I am thinking about creating a module to help with article authoring information.

[sraun]

I'd be interested in being on the list - I keep thinking about CMS for my personal stuff...

[xdaemon]

I'm in the process of migrating a bunch of the stuff I'm hosting to drupal. Count me in.

[lauriemann]

I've used a couple of different CMSes at various contracts the last few years, and had a little exposure to Joomla.

While I have close to five hundred pages and about a thousand images at my site, I don't feel I need a CMS for it. I think CMSes are more needed when you have multiple maintainers.

[sfrose]

CMS's are useful for multiple maintainers (especially for situations where people don't check for latest "master" versions. But the biggest advnatage is that people with little html experience can update the web pages without having a techie involved. That is if the CMS is designed properly.