From Joomla to Drupal: One Year Later, a Switcher’s Tale (part two)

Aug 4 2010

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

InstallationDrupal
PermissionsDrupal
BloggingDrupal
MapsJoomla
Custom content typesDrupal
SitemapJoomla
Meta TagsDrupal
Overall SEODrupal
SEF (Clean URLs)Drupal
EventsDrupal
Custom user registration formDrupal
RSS Feeds (outgoing & incoming)Drupal
Displaying data (Views)Drupal
Caching / aggregationDrupal
e-CommerceDrupal
Development costs (Lower price)Joomla
Embedded media (video)Drupal
Photo GalleriesJoomla
SecurityDrupal
SupportDrupal
Ease of updates (third party)Drupal
Ease of updates (core)Joomla
Custom themingDrupal
Availability of commercial themesJoomla
Commercial SupportDrupal (Acquia)
Permissions / ACLDrupal
RolesDrupal
Custom web applicationsDrupal
JavaScript FrameworkDrupal
Multi-sitesDrupal
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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