There has already been a lot of comparison between Drupal or Joomla, but below are some thoughts from me which might give you a different idea about them.
1) Active Level of the Community
Both of Drupal and Joomla are open source applications. How active their community are will directly determine the future of the product. A lot of people are arguing about their features, performance, etc. But from my perspective, it's ok to me that the system is not power enough, design is not good if there are a lot of people are involved in the community. As a nature of open source application, the issues will be resolved by someone you don't know sooner or later.
So, in terms of community, I would like say Joomla is better than Drupal. And a lot of people are contributing to Joomla from framework development to extension development. What attract me most is that there are a lot of free and excellent templates you can use in Joomla.
2) Development Plan
For development plan, I think Joomla have a better control than Drupal does. When Joomla release its 1.5 version, a lot of people in the community starts creating the component/plugin/template/module in the new platform. And the whole development team manage there progress properly to make sure V 1.5 can be a good version for the customers to use. But for Drupal, when their developer just are done with V6.1, and many core modules still haven't been built by the community, which might block of usage of the system, they have started the development work of V7. It might look more aggressive, but from the promotion perspective, this is really not a good strategy.
3) Speed
This is what Drupal strong at. Even thought people argue if we turn on the cache, the speed of Joomla is close to Drupa, I still would like to give my vote to Drupal. My Drupal site with more than 700 articles and can show up very quickly. And Joomla site is a little bit slower.
Overall, Joomla is more popular and has been the first choice for a lot of people, especially for those who don't have a good web design knowledge. And for Drupal, it is the favorite choice of the developers who have the php background, a Drupal site will make them feel different and more technical.
1) Active Level of the Community
Both of Drupal and Joomla are open source applications. How active their community are will directly determine the future of the product. A lot of people are arguing about their features, performance, etc. But from my perspective, it's ok to me that the system is not power enough, design is not good if there are a lot of people are involved in the community. As a nature of open source application, the issues will be resolved by someone you don't know sooner or later.
So, in terms of community, I would like say Joomla is better than Drupal. And a lot of people are contributing to Joomla from framework development to extension development. What attract me most is that there are a lot of free and excellent templates you can use in Joomla.
2) Development Plan
For development plan, I think Joomla have a better control than Drupal does. When Joomla release its 1.5 version, a lot of people in the community starts creating the component/plugin/template/module in the new platform. And the whole development team manage there progress properly to make sure V 1.5 can be a good version for the customers to use. But for Drupal, when their developer just are done with V6.1, and many core modules still haven't been built by the community, which might block of usage of the system, they have started the development work of V7. It might look more aggressive, but from the promotion perspective, this is really not a good strategy.
3) Speed
This is what Drupal strong at. Even thought people argue if we turn on the cache, the speed of Joomla is close to Drupa, I still would like to give my vote to Drupal. My Drupal site with more than 700 articles and can show up very quickly. And Joomla site is a little bit slower.
Overall, Joomla is more popular and has been the first choice for a lot of people, especially for those who don't have a good web design knowledge. And for Drupal, it is the favorite choice of the developers who have the php background, a Drupal site will make them feel different and more technical.
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