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By Anonymous (not verified) on
I am considering moving www.karnataka.com to drupal.
Does the latest version of Drupal 6.x support SEO URLs - i.e. I should be able to decide what the URL should be for each of the pages.
For e.g. after I add a page can I specifically set the URL of that page to http://www.karnataka.com/tourism/bangalore/ ?
How good is the version control system? This is another feature that is making me migrate to Drupal
Is it difficult to migrate from Joomla 1.0.x to Drupal 6.x?
regards,
Comments
Done the same...
...well, from J1.x to D 5.x, so know where you're at. Druapl is a lot harder system to master than Joomla, it's a lot more technical, and there are a few concepts which take you a while to grasp - you'll wonder how you ever got by without them.
Assuming your server supports it, Drupal is SEO freindly out of the box, and for every article that gets submitted you can type in the URL you want it to have and job done. Couldn't be simpler.
Version control is present - but I've never used it. When you edit an article you have a choice to make a revision, but unless you tick that box I don't think it's done. If it's something that only you are going to be doing then this should work OK for you.
Migration here can mean a lot of things - you are going to have to do a lot of hard work (or cross DB scripting) to move everything across. There are some utilities (I've got the bones of one for moving users) that will help, but will probably need tweaking so you may just as well move everything across by hand - I did.
But don't let that put you off. Since starting in Drupal I have never had a single moment where I missed being in Joomla or found something that Joomla could do that Drupal can't.
Feel free to drop me a line here if you need more specific advice - I'm pretty busy this next month but will answer if I can.
Gareth
Migrating to Drupal
Thanks..would surely like to use any special advise you have to give. Why can't I migrate to drupal 6.x (may be a dumb question, sorry).
Technically I have the people. My worry is for the content providers - is it simple enough for them to use Drupal?
regards
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B.G. Mahesh
http://www.greynium.com/
Content Editing
By default, Drupal comes with 3 input filters, which can seem a bit daunting to the data entry clerk. However there are numerous filters and WYSIWYG editors that people have developed such as flexifilter, TinyMCE, twikifilter, Textarea Tabs, and others that let users create content in their preferred format.
As well it helps to define content types, usually via the Content Construction Kit, to help organize data when creating 'nodes' or content.
Updating content
Looks like it will not be easy as in Joomla for the data entry clerk :-(
We are familiar with TinyMCE editor.
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B.G. Mahesh
http://www.greynium.com/
6.x is fine....
Never siad you couldn't migrate to it, but 5.x was my experience (Working on 6.x now!).
For data entry, I'm going to reccomend BUEditor. Tiny and FCK are both great and I use them a lot, but my audience is on the non-technical side and BUEditor gives them everything they need while making the site, and presentation, much safer.
Drupal requires a different mindset to Drupal and the best thing to do is get a strong,obvious taxonomy together to start with. Some people will submit articles ticking every taxonomy box, others won't use it at all. It will take some time to find a balance you are happy with.
Gareth