Drupal is a content management system especially attuned to building online community websites. It has many powerful features and to my eye its most important feature is the community surrounding its development. I have built many websites using Drupal and find it to be very useful.
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Re: Some notes on using and configuring the Drupal content manag
Drupal looks like a good system but we have been using Light as our Content Management System The template system seems to be easier to use. There are not as many add-ons with Light but it seems to have everything we need and is not bloated.
Can you explain a little more about why you have chosen Drupal?
Re: Some notes on using and configuring the Drupal content manag
I've never heard of Light so that's one reason I'm not using it ;-).
About 2-3 years ago I got tired of writing HTML based websites using a WYSIWYG editor. I wanted something a bit more powerful, such as autogenerating navigation etc. Also I knew I wanted software that could support the development of an online community.
I did a search of all the content management systems extant at the time. Because I have $0 budget, the content management systems had to be free. I see that Light is non-free so it's ruled out right there, sorry. In any case after looking at several systems I realized a key requirement was the quality of the community supporting the system.
The Drupal community is large and active and fun-loving and does some great stuff.
The Drupal system is very powerful, and most things it tries to do work pretty darn well. It has some flaws and quirks, but that's true of every software system.
In my search I boiled it down to Mambo (what's now called Joomla) and Drupal. I settled on Drupal for some intuitive reason that included the fact that Drupal's documentation made more sense than did Mambo's. Both systems have dedicated and loyal followers, they both have their positive points, and negative points. I'm in good company with Drupal, and I may have been in good company with Joomla but for better or worse I choose Drupal.
Some of the other systems had interesting features. For example Wordpress is dead-simple-trivial to install. But Wordpress only supports blogging and a key requirement for me was to support developing an online community. Further Wordpress has (or at the time 'had') poor support for general page organization. What I mean is, while you could post a 'page' and give it any URL, Wordpress didn't (and maybe still doesn't) give much of any help to generate useful navigational structures that help the user find that page. Drupal has a completely general system for posting pages and autogenerating navigational pages based on taxonomy.