Life Thinking

I have read lots of articles about Drupal vs Joomla, and I haven’t use Drupal yet on my projects, but I used Joomla more than once and I am familiar with it. I was always confused about which CMS to use, but now I realized it depends on the needs.

I will publish here a part of the article I like about Drupal vs Joomla:

Joomla

Thumbs up:

• Easy deployment
• More intuitive administration user interface
• Editing content is simple
• Lots of polished modules for things like calendars, polls, etc.
• Easy addition of modules
• Versioning is available
• Large community of developers (more than Drupal) for helping with setup and development
• Multi-lingual

Thumbs down:

• 1 installation of the software gives you 1 website
• Categories can only go two levels deep
• Limited roles and permission allowances
• Modules cost you money
• URLs are not search engine friendly (there is a purchasable module)
• Out-of-the-box Blogging functionality is mediocre

Drupal

Thumbs up:

• Easy deployment
• Editing tabs integrated into actual pages
• Editing content is simple as well
• Very flexible in its configuration
• Modules are plentiful, free, and suitable for non-profits
• Versioning is available
• Many high profile sites use Drupal (e.g.: MTV UK, BBC, the Onion, Nasa, Greenpeace UK, Kleercut )
• Multiple levels of categories allowed along with easily integrated tagging system
• Human readable URLs which are search engine friendly
• 1 installation allows you to create and manage multiple websites (very handy when creating campaign sites)
• Highly configurable user permissions handling

Thumbs down:

• Administration area is clunky, but it’s getting better with each version
• Terminology in the administration can be cryptic
• Adding a visual theme to Drupal can be time consuming
• Support for the free modules can be frustrating

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I would like to ask Arab Developers about their opinion, and what is the most preferable CMS software they are using?