By dvogelca on

Drupal Rocks!

This is coming from a non techie! Last year I developed a my site http://envisionpools.com with Joomla and struggled to learn the basics. I read an article in Linux Journal about Drupal and decided to give it a try. WOW.

And the verdict is in....
http://envisionpools.com stats:
Total year 2006 - 994 unique visitors with a max monthly hit of 150 uv's.
As of today, for the month of January (drum roll please) 197 uv's

And I owe it all to Drupal and the ease of use for me, a non-techie! Thank you

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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josenyimi’s picture

josenyimi commented

At first glance, people don't need login on your site, right?
if yes, why have you kept the login functionnality on the site then?

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dvogelca commented

My ultimate goal is to be able to provide those people who have interest in setting up an appointment with our company additional information that will not be publicly available(i.e., Additional photos, expanded FAQ's.

That being said...I'll hide it for the time being. GRRReat suggestion.

Thanks

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almarma commented

I totally agree with you. I'm migrating from WordPress, and also i have experience at work with Postnuke, and Drupal 5 is the easiest of all. Most clean, easy and fast of the CMS I tried. I'm going to make a lot of web pages using grupal. I love it.

Please, can somebody recommend me any basic modules to add to Drupal? I don't know if I will need another module, and I want to use it as soon as possible. I'm starting to add content to my page, and pehaps later will be difficult to integrate a module. For example, there is a WYSIWYG editor for the stories?

Thanks a lot.

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dvogelca commented

In my mind a must have is the XML Sitemap module. http://drupal.org/project/gsitemap It's very easy to set up and the payoff is incredible(as long as you're looking for Google presence).

David

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almarma commented

Thank you very much. I had a similar module in WordPress, but it was much more difficult to install and to configure. This is much more easy and much more complete than WP one.

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chelahmy commented

Editors. TinyMCE.

Drupal is very flexible. You don't have to worry about adding modules later. If you plan a record type contents then have a look at CCK. And much later when you're already well versed with Drupal, have a look at Dript.

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almarma commented

Many thanks for your help. The more I know about Drupal and it's modules, the more I love it!! TinyMCE is really a "must have" module. And IMCE is great to upload images directly, making editor's life much more easy. This was the worse thing I suffered in WordPress and made me think about a change. Also the complexity to upgrade WP with new versions. This is one of the best things of Drupal: upgrade it to a new version takes 5 minutes.

I'm very happy with Drupal, and I feel that my choice migrating from WP to Drupal was the right one.

Thanks a lot.

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dvogelca commented

In my original post, one week ago, I gave some real world stats. 197 uv's (unique visitors). I am blown away ... Feb 1 - Today I am now showing 855 uv's. Drupal, handsdown has enable me, a non-techie, to quickly generate traffic to my site http://envisionpools.com that I struggled with for over a year with a Joomla site to receive the same traffic in 4 days!

Drupal rocks! Thanks to all of you who have read this post!

If you all would be so kind, please post any comments relating to my site http://envisionpools.com regarding usability, design and content.

Thank you so much!

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johnchalekson commented

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