By aaphandana on

Hi guys....

I am building a website for selling cars like cars.com and autotraders.com
But my website will also have articles like an online magazine normaly do.

I am basically facing a dillema between using Joomla! or Drupal for my website.
I know Joomla! is not SEF and some other lacks compared to Drupal but Joomla! community provides me with alll those modules/components that I need.

So if I decide to use Joomla! then my website will be on the run in about 1 week since I have what I need already.
But if I use Drupal (which is superior to Joomla!) I might gonna need a few months to go. But Drupal may save lots of time in the future.

Here are the components/module that I need (found in Joomla!), if you have anything similar to these for Drupal... please, please inform me or post in this thread.
Here they are:
1. http://www.ezautos.biz/ (car database management)
2. http://www.ijoomla.com/magazine/ (magazine)
3. http://www.joomlaworks.gr/ (slide show)
4. http://www.bestofjoomla.com/ (forum completely built for joomla. Not a bridge to phpBB or whatsoever)

What do you think?

Thx before hand.

Comments

nevets’s picture

nevets commented

I think you can achieve what you want with Drupal and while it might take more than a week I don't think it requires a few months though that would depend on how familiar you are with Drupal.

For the car database management you could be done using CCK includuding the CCK Fieldgroup Tabs. Through in a little theming and you would be good to go.

For the magazine question I think a lot of that can be done with a combination of theming, blocks, the panel module and the views module.

For the slideshow look under the Downloads tab, there are several modules to chose from that provide slideshows.

For the forum that a look at the flatforum "theme" which provides for an alternative styling to the Drupal forums and can be used as is or as a starting point for styling the themes.

Steven_NC’s picture

Steven_NC commented

It might take a bit longer, but there are modules to do everything you need. You seem more concerned about long term stability than a few weeks of elbow grease.

I am a member of a trade group that wanted a new design and CMS. Their long standing developer built it on Joomla. I'm not a developer, but have done enough HTML to know good/bad code when I see it. I swear the Joomla generated code looks like it was done with MS Word.

Ezautos recommends Mambo as they will not be upgrading their Joomla version. (licensing issues)
The slide show module is offered in a "Static" version that is not tied directly to Joomla. They said it should work fine in Drupal.
As already been suggested, flatforum may work for you.

Most of the modules (all if you use the Pro Slideshow) are commercial items. If you use Drupal and roll your own, you would have a budget to buy some help if you find that you really need it.

Best of luck with your site

tyler-durden’s picture

tyler-durden commented

Obviously this is a very old thread and my input will not help you anymore, but I hope you went the Drupal route. About the time you posted this, I was using Joomla on a car classifieds site and just having problems. They had some great nifty modules, but they were VERY cumbersome and hard to modify. After about a year I abandoned it and started building a new site in Drupal. Whereas it took me maybe 2 months to build the Joomla site, the Drupal site took me about 8 months, but it was exactly what I wanted and it has taken off very successfully since.

Just my 2 cents.