My 2 cents: 1. Joomla is great is you have a online magazine; webshop; catalogue; blog-that's more than a blog OR a community-blog type of thing: because it is very easy marking out different categories of users-- and differentiating between pages accessible to registered users versus surfers.
Also, Joomla has a massive number of free and paid plugins-- which let you do almost anything with minimum of PHP tinkering. 2. Drupal is relatively logical in organization-- and provides a awesome skeleton for any kind of website. Also, many modules etc. However, doing some of the above things-- is much more difficult with drupal-- because you have to write or tinker with php code yourself. In the use-case I describe above-- which is easily done in joomla-- I had to actually write OR copy-paste a snippet of self-written PHP code to distinguish between a page accessible to all versus a page accessible only logged-in users. Maybe drupal has evolved since then... but this is my experience. Myself, being proficient in PHP and knowing drupal inside out (mostly)-- I prefer drupal--- but if I was making a "self-updated website" and passing it's maintainence to someone else-- I would suggest him Joomla-- and would make it in Joomla. Hope that helps. Also, will appreciate any comments additional inputs on what I have written above. Best Regards, Nalin -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
