Susan,
I would say the biggest limitation of Joomla that caused issues for us was in the permissions. The ability to create unlimited roles and to give field-level access per role within Drupal is a major differentiator. Another one was in the ability to take an existing module and easily extend its capabilities was another. Also, Drupal's taxonomy and organic groups modules allow one to build large, content-rich sites such as www.popsugar.com with ease. Nothing in Joomla compares to this. Show me some MAJOR sites built in Joomla. My guess is that any skilled developer who has worked in both would choose Drupal - unless they are building small, brochure-type sites. I personally believe Joomla is really more of a plug&play type of product aimed at being easy to install and build without worrying too much with extensibility and the like. Is there a list of Fortune 500 companies who use Joomla? I think the number of such companies who have chosen Drupal is very telling. Anyway - I personally don't care what anyone else uses. We use Drupal, and we are confident we've made the right choice - not a single client thus far has disagreed. Matt _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Susan Price Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 3:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Refresh Austin: 4863] Re: CMS vs Frameworks: Which one is recommended to learn with? I'd love to hear more about the significant limitations of Joomla you found compared with Drupal, Matt. On Jan 15, 2010, at 4:50 PM, Matt Gooding wrote: We used Joomla on a number of projects as well. There were many things we liked about Joomla but ultimately found that there were significant limitations that Drupal did not have. No question though - our experience is that Joomla developers LOVE Joomla and Drupal developers LOVE Drupal. Is there a site that shows the Fortune 500 companies that are using Joomla? Here is a great list of those using Drupal - http://websites.usandv.com/who-is-using-drupal. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ASCEND Internet Marketing Group Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 4:35 PM To: Refresh Austin Subject: [Refresh Austin: 4858] Re: CMS vs Frameworks: Which one is recommended to learn with? Full disclosure, I'm a Joomla enthusiast and strictly Joomla developer. That said; While I agree it's important to work outside of any frameworks/CMS to get an understanding of PHP, I'm really enjoying developing with the Joomla MVC, and especially the Joomla component JDump, which shows a variable dump organized in a neat graphic display for everything from strings to objects. It's been a great pairing for me and has really strengthened my understanding of OO as I write code and can track objects with their methods and properties in my own code as well as in the Joomla framework. Just my two cents, let the flames roar. -- Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin
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