By xyber on

Guys,

I know that Drupal is the most superior CMS in the world right now but seriously for ease of use, we can never beat Concrete 5. Damn, have you all seen concrete 5 before? http://www.concrete5.org Perhaps Drupal 7 should launch with their ease of use. And if only it could launch soon.

Rgrds,
Xyber.

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Lios’s picture

Lios commented

You shouldn't have to be an expert to use add-ons. That's why every add-on is tested by a peer review board and follows an architecture that will keep the rest of your site safe. Add-ons that cost money are guaranteed to work. It's about quality, not quantity.

Open source, but you have to pay for addons... No thanks. I'll take the wonderful, free, supported modules of Drupal any time.

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testytim commented

I've used C5 - And I like it.

More importantly, MY CLIENTS LOVE IT!! Let's face it, drupal is not friendly for people who are not tech-minded.

I have paid for C5 add-ons (Mailing List). After applying an update, I was having problems with images wrapped in anchor tags in the html email editor. I reported the problem (on a holiday weekend) and several days later there was an update fixing the problem. You get what you pay for. I have not reported any bugs for drupal modules because there are so many modules that have been abandoned or the current developer doesn't have time and is looking for a replacement. It doesn't instill a lot of faith. Free is not always better - just cheaper. I paid $50 for Mailing List. It was worth every penny. It works.

Now, I don't like everything about C5.
1. It runs slow on my host. The administrators at C5 are a little touchy when you tell them how slow it is.
2. There is not a local C5 user's group where I live. There is a drupal user's group where I live, and they are a great bunch of coders and damn good people.
3. I wish there was a forum included with the core install.

Concrete5 was designed with the content manager in mind.

Drupal is for developers. The content managers have to adapt themselves to what the developers do. That is flawed. The developers should be adapting what they do to meet the needs of the content managers. The less any end-user has to think about how to use software, the better it is.

For the last week, I have been building my first Drupal 7 site. It is an improvement over 6, but I still find myself spending hours trying find a specific setting for something. There is some of that in C5 development, but not as much. C5 is much more intuitive than drupal on any day of the week.

If drupal had in-context editing like C5, there would be no stopping drupal.