Content management system has got a very big definition and I guess I’ll leave this daunting task on Answers.com only, as they’ve found the best of the definition for Content Management System. Drupal is an open source Content Management System and once again Mahesh Bhat has done an excellent job by writing a great review about this power packed CMS.
This time Mahesh made sure that he highlighted both the PROS and CONS of Drupal and that way allows you as a user to decide that whether they’ll with this particular CMS or not. Personally I’ve not used Drupal but Mahesh has been dealing with it from some time and as far as I know Mahesh generally get things right :).
Here are few things which made it look interesting to me and I’m sure even you’ll find it interesting too :
Flexible - It has, in my opinion, the most flexible architecture one can get when compared to the other open source CMS available. Everything, in Drupal is a node (a content unit), except for comments and profiles. There are plans to shift that to node architecture - but making all other content types a node is flexible enough.
Learning curve/specialized knowledge - With great power comes great responsibility. (I could not help it, with the release of Spider Man 3). As I mentioned in the earlier post, open source software does not necessarily mean cost free software. The Drupal architecture - being so different (almost in a zen way), makes it difficult for people from other CMS to migrate to. Hence, if you are not ready to learn Drupal (say, to heavily customize it), you will have to hire someone who knows.
Links : Drupal homepage | Review of Drupal Image Credit : Mahesh Bhat
