For a news and reviews site which CMS is better Drupal, Joomla or other??

By rapido on 28 Jun 2006 at 15:41 UTC

Hello to all of the members of this great community,
I am a CMS newbie, but have experience building websites in PHP. My question is very specific: I am looking to create a news-and-reviews site very similar to phonescoop.com for video games. I would like to have in depth "Reviews" by the staff, forums, and the most important thing is: "Searchable Phone Profiles" . As you can see in phonescoop they have a database of profiled telephones searchable by any parameter such as form-factor, network, Operating System, and so on. You can also browse by brand.

Naturally I know that this can be acomplished with any both Joomla or Drupal, my question is: Which one can you guys picture better for this specific job?? Is there any other CMS that will do this easier without the need for custom programming??? I started experimenting with joomla and there is no component for creating searchable profiles of items, as far as I know. I have found some review components but they also will need a lot of tweaking and development to fill this task.

I realy need help because I already started with joomla and I have come to realize it's not going to be a quick-and-easy job, so If drupal offers me more advantages I am willing to learn it and switch.

Appreciate your input

Comments

Complementing my initial post

rapido commented 28 June 2006 at 15:53

This was a response to a generic question in another post by a user

..Drupal is a framework plus several hundred mini-applications (we call them modules). When I do any web application project, I first analyze the problem, and then spend time thinking about what pieces of the problem can be solved with existing Drupal modules, and the rest I have to program myself. You can't really evaluate Drupal without the knowlege of its modules, so you either have to look at all of them (or at least the major ones), or ask the forums "is there a module that bakes bread? Is there a module that washes cars?" etc. Without evaluating the available modules, you're missing 60-80% of the benefit of using Drupal.

So I guess the question should be changed to: Which CMS will do the job with existing modules and requires the least custom programming? without sacrificing efficiency

thanks!