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A closer look at Drupal

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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