Lori Hitchcock wrote: > Working with a company developing a website in a LAMP environment and > starting to look at CMS. Hearing good and bad about both Joomla and > Drupal. The needs to be very simple for non-techs to add content. > > Does anyone have any advice or experience with either of these? Does any one > have a positive experience with another CMS? > Hi Lori: We've used both Drupal and Plone recently. Some thoughts: - both reasonably complete CMS systems. - Plone has a tough learning curve -- but can be pretty easy for the non-techs once it is set up. - Drupal has less of a learning curve -- and also relatively easy to use once set up. - Drupal seems to hit the wall with complex environments a bit earlier than Plone does (e.g., Plone more complex but also more capable.) - Plone doesn't get security update alerts every week. - Plone community has a greater focus on web standards than Drupal community (core products not bad, Drupal add-ons are all over the map). - Drupal has a much larger collection of half-done, partially implemented, "done some time soon now" plug-ins. - Plone tends to have fewer plug-ins (and 1-3 of any particular selection, like blogging), but they tend to be maintained (there are, of course, always exceptions to this). - Drupal will deploy just about anywhere you can get PHP and MySQL. - Plone requires more specialized hosting (though places like Webfaction.com provide excellent service). - Plone built on Zope which is probably the most complex environment in the Python community. - Fairly active Plone community here in the northeast. - Drupal built on PHP and you can find PHP programmers just about everywhere.
One big difference between the two is ecommerce. Drupal has a nice Ubercart system which is fairly flexible (long as you don't need multi-language checkouts). Plone community working on their first eCommerce plug in which is doing well, but nowhere near as functional as something like Drupal. If you need a heave e-commerce component, then a pure Plone solution is probably out of the picture for the moment. Above are all my personal opinions to date. I don't consider myself an expert by any stretch in either of these. Your mileage may, as always, vary. --Ray _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
