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Both Drupal and Joomla are free and open-source content-management

platform for publishing web content. Both are widely used platform by web
developers but both contains lot of differences. The main difference between
Drupal and Joomla is that Drupal is a good for eCommerce, however,
requires some technical coding while Drupal is also difficult but it is the most
powerful CMS.
What is Drupal?

Drupal is an open source and free content management software written in


PHP for building personal blogs/websites to enterprise applications. It was
initially released on January 2001 and contains main features common to
content management systems that includes: account registration, menu
management, RSS feeds, taxonomy, page layout customization, and system
administration. It can equally serve as simple website, single/multi-user
blog/website, an internet forum, or a community website providing for user-
generated content. The main feature of Drupal is that it is capable of
performing on any computing platform that supports both a web server
capable of running PHP and a database to store content and configuration.
Additional features of Drupal that can be extended by the administrator are:
Descriptive URLs, OpenID support, multi-site support, advanced search,
coaching and feature throttling for improved performance, various access
control restrictions (user roles, IPD addresses, and email), etc.

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