{"id":110,"date":"2007-10-04T09:15:48","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T13:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/2007\/10\/04\/content-systems-joomla-vs-drupal\/"},"modified":"2007-10-04T09:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T13:16:00","slug":"content-systems-joomla-vs-drupal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/2007\/10\/04\/content-systems-joomla-vs-drupal\/","title":{"rendered":"Content systems: Joomla! vs. Drupal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1991 I&#8217;ve been the list owner \/ moderator of Milton-L, a discussion list on the life, literature and times of the poet John Milton.\u00a0 In 1994 I created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richmond.edu\/~creamer\/milton\/\">The Milton-L Home Page<\/a> as a support site for the discussion list. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now ready to take the web site to the next level, allowing the community of Milton scholars to contribute events, publication notices and more to the site.\u00a0 It&#8217;s my hope that the site will become as useful as the discussion list has been.<\/p>\n<p>The current site is on a static (i.e. non-cgi enabled) web server.\u00a0 This server is slated for some big changes and I know the web address for the site is going to change.\u00a0 A few months back I purchased the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmilton.org\/\">johnmilton.org<\/a> domain, and I plan to use this domain for the new site.<\/p>\n<p>When I first started with hosted servers, I looked at several of the open source content management systems. I settled on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joomla.org\/\">Joomla!<\/a> because both the front end and back end were intelligible not only to me but to the community that will use the site.\u00a0 I also liked the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joomlashack.com\/\">theme templates<\/a> that are available.<\/p>\n<p>In the back of my mind, though, <a href=\"http:\/\/drupal.org\/\">Drupal<\/a> has always been lurking as the best solution.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darcynorman.net\/\">D&#8217;Arcy<\/a> loves it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmc.org\/\">NMC<\/a> switched to it.\u00a0 It seems infinitely configurable, but that makes it seem infinitely complex, to me and the community.\u00a0 Unless I could wrap my brain around it all and architect the site well.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent upgrade of Joomla! broke both of the installations I was using.\u00a0 Users can no longer log in on the front end.\u00a0 So now I&#8217;m really looking at Drupal.\u00a0 Here are my questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What&#8217;s the state of spam and spam protection for Drupal?\u00a0 Is there a Spam Karma 2 equivalent to keep me safe with a minimum of effort?\u00a0 I plan to create user roles carefully, but I&#8217;d love to have a good security system in place.<\/li>\n<li>What are the best plug-in modules for Drupal?\u00a0 I&#8217;m already looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/drupal.org\/project\/event\">Events module<\/a>, since I need to have that kind of content on my site.\u00a0 But what are the best plug ins overall?\u00a0 I&#8217;ve always appreciated <a href=\"http:\/\/cogdogblog.com\/2006\/12\/27\/cugdugplugins\/\">blog entries listing WordPress plug ins<\/a> &#8211; love to see a Drupal list too.<\/li>\n<li>Do you have any theme recommendations?\u00a0 I want to keep things simple, but Drupal&#8217;s default themes are a little plain.<\/li>\n<li>Other than Drupal.org, what are some good web sites for Drupal admins to follow?<\/li>\n<li>What am I not asking that I should?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blog\" rel=\"tag\">blog<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/drupal\" rel=\"tag\">drupal<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/humanities\" rel=\"tag\">humanities<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/JohnMilton\" rel=\"tag\">JohnMilton<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/learning\" rel=\"tag\">learning<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/Milton\" rel=\"tag\">Milton<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/Joomla!\" rel=\"tag\">Joomla!<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/socialsoftware\" rel=\"tag\">socialsoftware<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/teaching\" rel=\"tag\">teaching<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/web\" rel=\"tag\">web<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/WordPress\" rel=\"tag\">WordPress<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1991 I&#8217;ve been the list owner \/ moderator of Milton-L, a discussion list on the life, literature and times of the poet John Milton.\u00a0 In 1994 I created The Milton-L Home Page as a support site for the discussion &hellip; 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