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A closer look at Drupal
From the course: CMS Essential Training
A closer look at Drupal
Currently, Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress are the most popular web-based content management systems on the market. As such, I want to discuss each of them in a little more detail, so that you can decide for yourself if one of them is a potential fit for your projects. I want to start with Drupal. Now that first thing I want to mention about Drupal is it's actually more of a content management framework rather than a content management system. So what's the difference? Mostly CMSs are built with an assumption about how the site's content should be managed. For example, WordPress and Movable Type are designed with blogging in mind, and the majority of their functionality is focused on the needs of a blog. A framework, on the other hand, makes no assumptions about how the content is going to be used--or even what the content is. It simply provides a basic framework of capabilities that can then be structured any way that the user wishes. While this is the platform an amazing amount of…
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Comparing CMSs4m 28s
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Core features to research4m 41s
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Commonly overlooked issues4m 12s
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Properly assessing needs4m 39s
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Knowing when to seek assistance4m 15s
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Choosing a CMS for designers4m 45s
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Choosing a CMS for organizations4m 12s
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The pros and cons of hosted solutions2m 58s
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Hosted solution examples5m 51s
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The pros and cons of open source solutions4m 36s
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Open source CMS examples7m 6s
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Proprietary CMSs7m 48s
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A closer look at Drupal5m 7s
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A closer look at Joomla!4m
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A closer look at WordPress5m 33s
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Resources for comparing CMSs9m 2s
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