Why Not Use CMS – Drupal or Joomla?

Drupal CMS | Joomla CMSWhat’s CMS?

CMS is Content Management System. If you have not heard about it, then it’s time.

I think one of the biggest advantage of using a CMS is the ease of updating your pages and creating new one.

So I am already using a CMS if you consider WordPress to be one. However, I mean CMS CMS e.g. Drupal or Joomla.

Joomla

I am familiar with Joomla – not as a developer but an user.

One of my business partner build Web sites with Joomla and he has a couple of programmers doing just that.

My brother, who is a product designer turned Web designer, specialized in managing Web development team using Joomla with one of the bigger Web design and development company in Singapore. So I understand from him the practical challenges of building large portals with Joomla engine.

However, personally I have not use Joomla to publish any site because I find then technically challenging.

I will need a developer to help me customize the CMS so that I can focus on the content building, usability and SEO. And if I do get a good programmer to take care of the technical stuff, I will want to try out Drupal.

New Version Drupal 6.0

I want to use Drupal to build a recipes site, a business directory and a Web marketing discussion forum using Drupal. And the time can’t be better with new release of Drupal 6.0.

There are some nice new features in Drupal 6.0:

  1. Quicker and easier set up
  2. Drag-and-drop admin
  3. Multi-lingua support

I believe the biggest advantage that Drupal has over it’s competitor is it’s extensibility. You can do a lot of customization with modules. And with the right modules, I will be able to do all those 3 very different type of Web sites.

Ok, I will not bore you with the features list.

You can find out more from the video on Implementing Drupal:

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John conrad July 12, 2009 at 4:31 pm

It’s a very interesting subject I was looking around about more information but you got really what i was looking for in your article so thanks and keep it up you have a great blog .
I’m very interested in CMS and all its related subjects.

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Steven Yap November 19, 2008 at 10:39 am

There should be an option in sh404 configuration that allows you to use apache mod_rewrite.
If you turn that on, the index.php will not appear. However, as implied, your server must support apache mod_rewrite in order for this to work.

Hope this helps you.

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daventurewebtech November 18, 2008 at 2:32 pm

“I am using sh404 component at my site. And index.php is coming in between my urls can any one help me to remove it.
http://daventurewebtech.com/index.php/services.html i want to remove index.php and is should be look link this http://daventurewebtech.com/services.html

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