Joomla and Drupal

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Very sophisticated. It
Weak. There are only three levels
allows unlimited category
of content - Section >> Category
levels, tagging and
Content Management >> Content is available. That's it.
categorization. You can
No cross-categorization. To get
also create multiple types
flexibility, use a Content
of content, each with
Construction Kit extension.
different features.

Probably the most

WYSIWYG Editors common complaint about
TinyMCE comes by default.
Drupal - it has no default
editor.

Very few commercial

developers and off-the- Perhaps Joomla's biggest strength.
Template / Themes
shelf choices are very Joomla has a wide selection of
poor. Most designs are free and commercial designs.
custom-made.

By default it offers the

Non-existent by default but there
ability to expand user
are two powerful community
Community Features profiles easily and
extensions. Community Builder is
Organic Groups allows for
free. Jomsocial is commercial but
powerful community-
a powerful social application.
building.

Perhaps Joomla's achilles heel.

A huge strength of Drupal
Most Joomla aites will only be
wins hands-down. You
User Permissions able to use three user levels
can create unlimited user
(Public, Registered and Special)
levels and customize them
without installing a cumbersome
in minute detail.
Access Control Level extension.

The only real option is

User Subscriptions Ubercart, a shopping cart Multiple options via extensions.
which allows recurring CB Subs and are two of many.
billing.

See above. The only real

option is Ubercart. Its a Joomla has only one major
Shopping Cart powerful, fully-featured shopping cart: Virtuemart, but it
ecommerce platform but considered buggy and difficult to
may be overkill for small work with.
stores.
SEO
 The out-of-the-box URLs
Reasonable out of the box, but
work well and can be
lacks the ability to really control
improved with one easy
URLs or metadata. Various SEO
addon: Pathauto. The code
extensions are needed for those
is generally lightweight
who really care about SEO.
and well-optimised.

The choice is between Agora and

A native and very smooth Kunena (native to Joomla but
Forums forum, but lacking in the short on features) versus
high end features of the RokBrige (a bridge to phpBB3)
best modern forums. and JFusion (a bridge to almost
any forum software).

Not by default but several Yes, the default WYSIWYG

Multimedia multimedia modules for editor allows video and there are
video and podcasting are plenty of podcast and video
available. extensions.

Definitely less options

Photo Galleries than Joomla. Decent Yes. there's over a dozen excellent
galleries require several galleries.
modules to be combined.

Not great. There are

Event Calendars options but they are far Yes, multiple native and high-
behind those available for quality calendar extensions.
Joomla.

Would need to be
Document Management DocMan and Rokdownloads are
constructed from other
both reliable document managers.
modules.

Some out-of-the-box capability

Good default capabilities,
(we use Joomla for our blog here
Blogs although not a natural
on Alledia). Good native blogging
blog in the manner of
extensions plus a port of
Wordpress.
Wordpress are available.

Not by default. Joom!Fish allows

Internationalization for sites in multiple languages but
Yes, Excellent.
isn't as powerful as the
commercial Nooku.
Standards Compliance
Yes. Excellent out-of-the- Not great. The Beez template does
box. provide clean output but most
Joomla installations still use a
good number of tables. One
company has produced a full set
 of table-less overrides.

Weak. There are some multisite

Multisites Management
Yes, out-of-the-box. options but they're either unstable
or very expensive.

Drupal's commercial
talent pool is very high-
quality but also very Very strong. Perhaps the best in
Commercial Community shallow. Most commercial the Open Source CMS world with
developers work with a wealth of developers, designers
large-to-medium size and consultants.
business and charge
accordingly.

Good community. Often The community as a whole has a

more non-profit than tendency to argue and fragment
General Community
business driven. Excellent but its also highly dynamic with
forum support at 1000s of companies offering
Drupal.org. support and services.

Definitely a weakness.
Terms are confusing and
Joomla has a very good graphical
Ease-of-use overly-geeky. The admin
interface but still retains quite a
interface is text-driven
few quirks and oddities.
and often overwhelming
to beginners.

Not too bad. (Click here Pretty good. The main Joomla
Documentation for documentation and wiki has a lot of highly-detailed
here for an API reference pages but also some with very
guide little information.
Steeper than Joomla.
Drupal's strength is in its Shallow. One of the easiest CMS
Learning Curve
flexibility and power, not systems to learn and customize.
its ease-of-use.
Joomla 1.5 is the current version
Clear development path. with the possibility of two new
Current Situation Currently working on versions (1.6 and 1.7) due next
Drupal 7. year. Roadmap is not always
clear.
Overall Drupal is flexible and Joomla 1.6 will focus on
developer-friendly. It also improving two crucial areas:
benefits from a coherent Joomla's inflexible systems for
and stable community led managing users and content. It
by several large and may become a little more
reputable companies. complicated as a result, but it will
remain relatively easy to produce
a good-looking site with plenty of
 functionality using Joomla.
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