What is the difference, in layman’s terms, between Joomla and Drupal?

15Apr/090

What is the difference, in layman’s terms, between Joomla and Drupal?

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Big picture, Joomla and Drupal do the same thing. You can login to create and edit pages. They are both open source (free) and use the most common technologies (PHP and MySQL) available at hosting companies.

A close analogy might be automobiles, they both get you there but in different ways, styles, rides, etc. So which CMS you need depends on you and your project. Maybe you need something else? We'll find out. And, yes, you can have multiple systems. For example, a blog in WordPress or TypePad and an e-commerce site with Yahoo! or PayPal or eBay and then Joomla for a corporate site and even Drupal for an internal intranet. These sites could be integrated in some ways, esp through syndication (example: blog posts on blog site get automatically feed to corporate site or vice versa).

You have many flexible choices in picking the right system(s) (Joomla, etc) for the need(s).

Tip: find out which system meets your need best out of the box, and be prepared to accept the limitations as a trade-off and you'll save yourself a lot of money and time.

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