Around one year ago I decided to build a bingo comparison website since I know a lot of people in the industry and if these types of websites become popular they can be quite valuable.
At the time I worked in a London based web agency that had their own CMS... commercial and quite expensive so I wasnt going to use that but I was extremely aware of all of the functionality a good CMS should have. I kept hearing the name Drupal popping up in conversion between the techies as it was their CMS of choice when doing sites in their own time. Now I first looked at Joomla and it seemed more user friendly and straight forward to work with but when I started looking into modifications, modules, SEO friendliness, html editor integration and the way the system worked from an architecture and scalability perspective Drupal won hands down. Another important thing was that Drupal is actively being developed and Joomla cannot even compare on that aspect.
As I'm not a developer but I can understand html, some code and can easily embed JScript or JQuery with a bit of playing (which I enjoy) I found Drupal a bit of a learning curve but with determination I always got to where I wanted to be.. mainly thankfully to all the modules and the support of this forum.
This is my first attempt at building drupal websites. Actually, the site was launched a few months back and it's a recipe sharing site for home cooks. The site makes use of themed views, the theme is based on Acquia Marina - basically the 1st theme I came across on the druapal theme page after Zen. It's a basic site that will grow with user content.
I have been working on this redesign for several weeks now, and finally I am ready to begin rolling it out. There remains many tasks to complete, much to improve and endless testing. Nonetheless I am excited to finally start publishing the results.
