[UFO Chicago] open source CMS recommendations

[Larry Garfield]

Disclaimer: I'm a Drupal dev and use it professionally.

I have not worked with Joomla in a very long time, but the general consensus 
from people who have more experience with it seems to be that Joomla has a 
lower initial learning curve than Drupal, but Drupal will scale to more 
complex use cases and designs far more easily than Joomla will.  Drupal also 
relies on its vast array of contributed modules more heavily than Joomla 
does; pretty much no one builds a Drupal site without using a handful of 
common contrib modules.  That is by design.

There is a Chicago Drupal users group where you can go for more information:

http://cdmug.org/
http://drupal.meetup.com/1/

We have monthly meetings and welcome newcomers who want to learn about "this 
Drupal thing".  We can also offer "test drives".

On Monday 26 May 2008, Brian Sobolak wrote:
> Hi --
>
> My wife is doing some work with a not-for-profit.  They would like to
> upgrade their website from their current situation, where a designer
> delivered a bunch of beautiful looking things but no way to update it.
>  (Surprise!  They still don't have a website.)
>
> She thought either Joomla or Drupal seemed like decent candidates.
> Are there others she missed?
>
> Her requirements are:
>   - free as in beer
>   - will work on most major hosting platforms
>   - will allow her to create 8-12 pages
>   - can be easily updated by someone who does not know HTML
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Our initial thoughts were that Joomla seemed easier to work with and
> perhaps more user-friendly than Drupal, but we have littled (and
> outdated) experience with either.
>
> brian


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