Article : Drupal vs The World! Why choose Drupal?

Overview of CMS options
So what other Opensource CMSs are there besides Drupal:

Drupal vs Joomla
I started out with Joomla because at first look Drupal is scary and Joomla has nice shiny buttons and looks easier out the box.

But from a developers point of view, you'll soon find (as I did) that Joomla is quite rigid and isn't very easy to build on. The plugins just don't interact well with the Joomla core unlike Drupal does with its core. This combined with the lack of clean URLs as standard turned my attention to Drupal and it's awesome hook system.

Don't get me wrong though, Joomla is a really good CMS and for alot of people it's absolutely perfect. It has all the standard CMS features and an integrated WYSIWYG editor which works great for images and text content, something Drupal really needs as standard! However, there is no support for clearn URLs "out the box" and it's a pretty hefty bunch of files at 2MB.

Drupal vs PHP-Nuke
I have to admit I only briefly used PHP-Nuke and it was a while back now, so please feel free to correct me here.
My observations are PHP-Nuke is fairly easy to setup but it's not built for expansion like Drupal, you can add modules but they act almost separately to the core files of which there are many.
I never experienced it but if you search the net there are alot of posts about PHP-Nuke being insecure, but personally I don't have any experience of it to back this up!

PHP-Nuke however has paved the way for other CMSs to evolve. Both XOOP and DragonflyCMS I believe are based on PHP-Nuke.

Drupal vs Wordpress
Yeh I know Wordpress isn't really a CMS but it's fairly common to hear people trying to compare them. The truth is you can't compare them. Drupal is a full fledge expandable CMS framework and Wordpress is the king of blogging tools.
Drupal can do blogging but if you want a specialised and well-oiled blogging system and nothing else then you should definitely check Wordpress out.

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