If I may add, based on my experience using lots of Joomla before, one important aspect to consider is time to build and how urgent it is to get the site on live production. If time is a factor, Joomla is way faster -- with a caveat -- you need to cough up some dough for some features that arent available for free.
(And for more speedier build and for simple projects, Wordpress is the way to go. I have helped a number of neighborhood communities to use Wordpress by "turning it into a CMS" which they find easy to use and maintain.)
All in all, I think its best if you try to marry "the content you have or envisaged" with the CMS that suits the content build and also which you are also comfortable with. Anyways, I warn you, Drupal is addictive!
Yes it is true that every language and platform provides some unique features. But from user's point of view Joomla is better because, to use the Joomla applications user require no or very little technical skill while for using drupal applications, it may take slightly more time to master Drupal than Joomla. More over the "Allowed memory exhausted" error problem can be solved by making changes in "configuration.php" and "configuration.php-dist" files.
Well, my site users have never complained about a feature for which they have bought a book!!!!
Have a look at this discussion: http://drupal.org/node/502640
A developer can't answer our discussion because for a developer always favor the language he use. A survey of users who used both Drupal system and Joomla system can answer this question.
Joomla is more user-friendly for the contributors and has less of a learning curve - and I agree you could have a site live in a much shorter time with Joomla. I also found most advanced items for it cost, so there's a trade-off. Then again, I've been developing in ASP and .NET for years but management went the open source route to save money. We selected Drupal and I must admit, there have been many times I felt like I was thrown out of a cab in a country where nobody spoke English and was told "you're on your own now".
The good thing is they're web-based admin. That's also a bad thing to me as it takes so much longer to develop waiting for a browser to reply as opposed to a development client app.
Ruskin makes a good point, it really depends what you are used to...just my 2 cents.
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Drupal is better.
Drupal is better. You didn't expect any other answer here on the Drupal forum, did you?
This question has been discussed many times. You can find a lot of information by searching this site (http://drupal.org/search/apachesolr_search/drupal%20joomla, http://drupal.org/search/apachesolr_search/drupal%20vs%20joomla) or Google (http://www.google.nl/search?q=drupal+vs+joomla).
If those search results don't answer all of your questions, feel free to ask more specific questions here in this thread.
In addition ...
If I may add, based on my experience using lots of Joomla before, one important aspect to consider is time to build and how urgent it is to get the site on live production. If time is a factor, Joomla is way faster -- with a caveat -- you need to cough up some dough for some features that arent available for free.
(And for more speedier build and for simple projects, Wordpress is the way to go. I have helped a number of neighborhood communities to use Wordpress by "turning it into a CMS" which they find easy to use and maintain.)
All in all, I think its best if you try to marry "the content you have or envisaged" with the CMS that suits the content build and also which you are also comfortable with. Anyways, I warn you, Drupal is addictive!
Joomla is better because it
Joomla is better because it is open source and provides you Dynamic features with number of extensions available.
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I wonder if Drupal is not dynamic and free.
Regards.
🪷 Beautifulmind
in contrast to
Drupal, which is open source, offers dynamic features, and has a huge array of extensions available. :P
Best comparison
I think this may help u..
http://drupal.org/node/498966
Drupal has one thing which
Drupal has one thing which Joomla! doesn't. The "Allowed memory exhausted" error! You'll love it! :-)))
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Yes it is true that every
Yes it is true that every language and platform provides some unique features. But from user's point of view Joomla is better because, to use the Joomla applications user require no or very little technical skill while for using drupal applications, it may take slightly more time to master Drupal than Joomla. More over the "Allowed memory exhausted" error problem can be solved by making changes in "configuration.php" and "configuration.php-dist" files.
*_*
Well, my site users have never complained about a feature for which they have bought a book!!!!
Have a look at this discussion: http://drupal.org/node/502640
Regards.
🪷 Beautifulmind
A developer can't answer our
A developer can't answer our discussion because for a developer always favor the language he use. A survey of users who used both Drupal system and Joomla system can answer this question.
New to open source and from what I can tell
Joomla is more user-friendly for the contributors and has less of a learning curve - and I agree you could have a site live in a much shorter time with Joomla. I also found most advanced items for it cost, so there's a trade-off. Then again, I've been developing in ASP and .NET for years but management went the open source route to save money. We selected Drupal and I must admit, there have been many times I felt like I was thrown out of a cab in a country where nobody spoke English and was told "you're on your own now".
The good thing is they're web-based admin. That's also a bad thing to me as it takes so much longer to develop waiting for a browser to reply as opposed to a development client app.
Ruskin makes a good point, it really depends what you are used to...just my 2 cents.