From Joomla to Drupal: One Year Later, a Switcher’s Tale (part two)
In the first part of this series, I covered what my experience has been so far during the past year that I have switched from being primarily a Joomla developer to a Drupal developer. In summary, the experience has been extremely positive and enlightening. In fact there seems to be no end to Drupal and what can be done with it. With Drupal I feel like I am building a true web application, not just a web site which Joomla does.
In the table below, various different features and functionality of sites I have built with Drupal and Joomla are listed. I have chosen which CMS I think is stronger for any given item. Drupal is the clear winner here. That's just my point of view, I am sure others will disagree with this. Some in fact were 'no-brainers', for example e-commerce in Drupal won hands down against Joomla. I would rather use Ubercart any day over VirtueMart. I would not trade Drupal for anything and will continue to develop with it as my primary CMS / web application of choice.
Feature | Winner |
|---|---|
| Installation | Drupal |
| Permissions | Drupal |
| Blogging | Drupal |
| Maps | Joomla |
| Custom content types | Drupal |
| Sitemap | Joomla |
| Meta Tags | Drupal |
| Overall SEO | Drupal |
| SEF (Clean URLs) | Drupal |
| Events | Drupal |
| Custom user registration form | Drupal |
| RSS Feeds (outgoing & incoming) | Drupal |
| Displaying data (Views) | Drupal |
| Caching / aggregation | Drupal |
| e-Commerce | Drupal |
| Development costs (Lower price) | Joomla |
| Embedded media (video) | Drupal |
| Photo Galleries | Joomla |
| Security | Drupal |
| Support | Drupal |
| Ease of updates (third party) | Drupal |
| Ease of updates (core) | Joomla |
| Custom theming | Drupal |
| Availability of commercial themes | Joomla |
| Commercial Support | Drupal (Acquia) |
| Permissions / ACL | Drupal |
| Roles | Drupal |
| Custom web applications | Drupal |
| JavaScript Framework | Drupal |
| Multi-sites | Drupal |
| Score: | Drupal: 24 / Joomla: 6 |


Definitely good switch
My point would go similarly.
I like drush and the ease of it when it comes to update your modules or core. Even for multisites. Also the one point repository for modules to check current security/development status. Great thing after surfing around the web to find latest security information to all modules/componens/plugins. Nightmare.
Thanks!
Antii: Thanks for the comments!
Awesome
This is very useful, I will certainly show it to my friends.
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