Joomla or Drupal?

[thewayne]

Does anyone have experience with these? I'm thinking about changing my sparebrainsgames.com site to one or the other, and I keep going back and forth on which would be better for a small site and for someone who is occasionally of very little brain. I've been reading up on them, mainly comparisons, and I am having serious problems making up my mind.

Comments

[deborak]

Why don't you just use a WordPress blog with your domain name? WP has absolutely awesome features and you don't have the code learning curve.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I'll take a look. I've seen a couple of sites done with WP that didn't rock my world, but maybe they weren't using the features that I was interested in.

I really should learn the code, though. ;-)

BTW, great icon!

[alekth.livejournal.com]

Haven't used Joomla much at all, love Drupal. I don't think the learning curve is too steep, but it also depends on how far you will be going into customization.

However, unless you plan to extend your site a lot, I'd also advise going with Wordpress. It just seems the way to go for a basic CMS and a blog. Do you have some specific feature concepts in mind?

[vaudy.livejournal.com]

I was supposed to be helping out my choir with their new website, and they were going to be using Drupal, but they haven't gotten around to working on it yet. It's only been a year. *flails*

I agree about WordPress, though. It does have some great features, and a well-done site using WordPress can look very good.

[beeyochkitty.livejournal.com]

I also went with WordPress after reading about the WP E-commerce plugin. They've got nice photo gallery widget & stuff, too. It's php-based, and you can fiddle with the files if you choose, but the admin dashboard is so much more intuitive than Joomla (I've never used Drupal, but have heard it's very similar).