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Drupal 7.14
Category: CMS / PortalsStable Release: 7.14
Started In: 2000
Updated: May 11 2012
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Joel
Feb 2 2011, 3:35 pm
Feb 2 2011, 3:35 pm
Drupal is disappointing.
It is heavy, bloated. Yes full of stuff, full of everything. But at the end, provided you have a lot of time to loose, this means full of nothing.
Drupal 7 should have been the best of the best of Drupal. It is a piece of crap. Others might look at it in another way.
But really, such a heavy administration, lack of logic, unfriendly: this is the end of CMS.
Furthermore Drupal 7 has the same drawbacks than its predecessors: slow, very slow, even on dedicated.
OK, the first install works fine. But when you install modules, you literally see the CMS diying.
Try any other CMS, their speed and performance are light speed compared to Drupal.
Drupal has the speed of an elephant. This is actually what Drupal is: big, heavy, bloated.
This said, you must know that you still can find worse than Drupal.
It is heavy, bloated. Yes full of stuff, full of everything. But at the end, provided you have a lot of time to loose, this means full of nothing.
Drupal 7 should have been the best of the best of Drupal. It is a piece of crap. Others might look at it in another way.
But really, such a heavy administration, lack of logic, unfriendly: this is the end of CMS.
Furthermore Drupal 7 has the same drawbacks than its predecessors: slow, very slow, even on dedicated.
OK, the first install works fine. But when you install modules, you literally see the CMS diying.
Try any other CMS, their speed and performance are light speed compared to Drupal.
Drupal has the speed of an elephant. This is actually what Drupal is: big, heavy, bloated.
This said, you must know that you still can find worse than Drupal.
Martin
Jan 26 2011, 3:42 pm
Jan 26 2011, 3:42 pm
I am very happy about Drupal 6. Just used it for 3 Projects and it simply worked.
Drupal, I think, is the best working Open Source Project of all CMS! All modules are maintained and if you get an error, you will get a solution within the next 3 hours.
Drupal 7:
- existing logical errors fixed
- faster, admin menu organized
@the guy below me:
1. To use the same Admin Menu as in the module in d6, just install the module ;)
2. All the guys who are maintaining all the modules have to wait for the release before programming new modules (or fixing them)!
3. For updates you can install "plugin_manager", but it is as save as the one in wordpress ;)
4. The thing is: in drupal you can change the Admin-interface - in wordpress you can´t
So in my opinion drupal is hard to learn, but if you got it you can make projects faster and more efficient than with wordpress, joomla, etc.
Anyone mentioned the huge plugin database of wordpress. I think 1/3 of all Plugins work in the newest version.
Drupal, I think, is the best working Open Source Project of all CMS! All modules are maintained and if you get an error, you will get a solution within the next 3 hours.
Drupal 7:
- existing logical errors fixed
- faster, admin menu organized
@the guy below me:
1. To use the same Admin Menu as in the module in d6, just install the module ;)
2. All the guys who are maintaining all the modules have to wait for the release before programming new modules (or fixing them)!
3. For updates you can install "plugin_manager", but it is as save as the one in wordpress ;)
4. The thing is: in drupal you can change the Admin-interface - in wordpress you can´t
So in my opinion drupal is hard to learn, but if you got it you can make projects faster and more efficient than with wordpress, joomla, etc.
Anyone mentioned the huge plugin database of wordpress. I think 1/3 of all Plugins work in the newest version.
Drupal 7 is very disappointing
Jan 15 2011, 6:55 pm
Jan 15 2011, 6:55 pm
VERY disappointed!
The new interface is hard to use - unlike the Admin menu of D6 which has dropdown menus to allow you to see submenus and hence allows you to get to sections quickly, D7 does not have this.
Many modules are NOT compatible with D7 - For example, ALL modules I would use to place a Contact author link on a node are NOT avail for D7 - meaning I cannot use D7 for many of my sites
THE problem with Drupal 6 is its update process. While for example Wordpress updates in a press of a button, Drupal 6 requires a long and tedious process to update it.
Do you think they addressed this in Drupal 7? NO. Not at all. VERY disappointed!
As a user, it seems D7 is nothing but D6 with CCK thrown in, is not a rewrite and simply has a different and IMHO not improved user interface.
The new interface is hard to use - unlike the Admin menu of D6 which has dropdown menus to allow you to see submenus and hence allows you to get to sections quickly, D7 does not have this.
Many modules are NOT compatible with D7 - For example, ALL modules I would use to place a Contact author link on a node are NOT avail for D7 - meaning I cannot use D7 for many of my sites
THE problem with Drupal 6 is its update process. While for example Wordpress updates in a press of a button, Drupal 6 requires a long and tedious process to update it.
Do you think they addressed this in Drupal 7? NO. Not at all. VERY disappointed!
As a user, it seems D7 is nothing but D6 with CCK thrown in, is not a rewrite and simply has a different and IMHO not improved user interface.
Drupal is just hype and over-acclaimed
Jan 14 2011, 9:40 pm
Jan 14 2011, 9:40 pm
In my opinion Drupal is just hype and over-acclaimed. It may be a good CMS if you are a large organization with lots of financial resources or have many experienced web developers and webmasters.
Over complicated
Performance problems
Expensive to maintain
Difficult and expensive to customize and setup
Over complicated
Backward compatibility problems
Scalability issues
Usability problems
Long learning curve and overwhealming for entry level webmasters
This article says it all:
Drupal vs Joomla
Over complicated
Performance problems
Expensive to maintain
Difficult and expensive to customize and setup
Over complicated
Backward compatibility problems
Scalability issues
Usability problems
Long learning curve and overwhealming for entry level webmasters
This article says it all:
Drupal vs Joomla
justme
Jan 14 2011, 2:39 pm
Jan 14 2011, 2:39 pm
I have drupal. Just loaded it. their community forum is not very good. If you need an answer, read the document. Hard to search their forum for answers. I am thinking it could be a good program, but expect to read and not ask for help. Searching google is your best bet for the answer!
arnold
Dec 17 2010, 4:46 pm
Dec 17 2010, 4:46 pm
Absolutely the best you can just create your own site with this in only mintues
User
Dec 8 2010, 3:01 am
Dec 8 2010, 3:01 am
I think a lot of the negative votes come from that Drupal is not Joomla.
With that I mean a brick that is ready to throw through the window. I also woulnd't really call Drupal a CMS, rather a framework. It does NOT come in a fire and forget mode right out of the box, you have to tinker with it - which gives Drupal unpresedented flexibility, but also comes with a steep learning curve. (and most of the users here give a max rating of 3 if they don't have a site in a working state within 30 minutes it seems.)
With that I mean a brick that is ready to throw through the window. I also woulnd't really call Drupal a CMS, rather a framework. It does NOT come in a fire and forget mode right out of the box, you have to tinker with it - which gives Drupal unpresedented flexibility, but also comes with a steep learning curve. (and most of the users here give a max rating of 3 if they don't have a site in a working state within 30 minutes it seems.)
Dan AA
Dec 4 2010, 2:07 pm
Dec 4 2010, 2:07 pm
I can't believe what I see here, so many people claiming that Drupal sites look less approaching, or that there are not enough templates, etc. I ask myself, does any of this "reviewers" build more than a single personal site? .
In real life, a graphic designer provides a design, the client approves it, and the web site has to respect the design to the last pixel. In general we start a Drupal template from scratch, so who cares about available templates, what is this concept of Drupal sites look this way or the other, a site has to respect the design regardless of the CMS behind it, Drupal , as many other CMS provides all the necessary tools to achieve that, if you can't achieve that then better hire someone skilled enough to do that. Claiming that on CMS site looks this way or the other is a scream to the world saying "I am not a developer !!". The discussion should be on performance, accessibility for the end user etc, but sure not about how a site looks like. A website is data, pure data, and a CMS is the tool to organize , edit and present that data to the world, the "look" is the least relevant factor, since it must be achieved in any case or with any CMS, so I choose Drupal, since I feel comfortable with the way it manages and pulls out the data with CCK, VIEWS, etc. To be honest, I used to work with Joomla quite a lot, the K2 component really fixed many of Joomla's main flaws, like ACL, section-category restriction, lack of flexibility for multiple templates overrides, custom fields, etc, but at a certain point, we had to touch the core to achieve what we wanted, I had too many conflicts between modules, plugins, libraries etc, so that was the point when we pulled out from it and carried on only with Drupal, and up to now, it does what we need.
In real life, a graphic designer provides a design, the client approves it, and the web site has to respect the design to the last pixel. In general we start a Drupal template from scratch, so who cares about available templates, what is this concept of Drupal sites look this way or the other, a site has to respect the design regardless of the CMS behind it, Drupal , as many other CMS provides all the necessary tools to achieve that, if you can't achieve that then better hire someone skilled enough to do that. Claiming that on CMS site looks this way or the other is a scream to the world saying "I am not a developer !!". The discussion should be on performance, accessibility for the end user etc, but sure not about how a site looks like. A website is data, pure data, and a CMS is the tool to organize , edit and present that data to the world, the "look" is the least relevant factor, since it must be achieved in any case or with any CMS, so I choose Drupal, since I feel comfortable with the way it manages and pulls out the data with CCK, VIEWS, etc. To be honest, I used to work with Joomla quite a lot, the K2 component really fixed many of Joomla's main flaws, like ACL, section-category restriction, lack of flexibility for multiple templates overrides, custom fields, etc, but at a certain point, we had to touch the core to achieve what we wanted, I had too many conflicts between modules, plugins, libraries etc, so that was the point when we pulled out from it and carried on only with Drupal, and up to now, it does what we need.
Jane
Nov 28 2010, 1:00 pm
Nov 28 2010, 1:00 pm
I am a big Drupal fan and I've been was very surprised about the award results giving Wordpress as best CMS in front of Drupal: http://www.packtpub.com/open-source-awards-home.
For sure Drupal was not far away from the first place (so i am not wrong of being a fan of it). But still, looks like the world is changing...
So I played a but around with Wordpress.
I've always been sceptical about it as it has been a blog platform. But Wordpress has changed a lot and believe me, one can now build excellent website with it.
Wordpress has over 12000 modules which is more than Drupal and Joomla together!
So next website will be built with Wordpress and I will be able to give a better feedback about the differences between both.
I can already say (but this is known by all drupalist) that the Wordpress admin interface is much better.
Performance seem also above what Drupal can deliver.
But I still want to see all my usual features before giving a definitive statement.
For sure Drupal was not far away from the first place (so i am not wrong of being a fan of it). But still, looks like the world is changing...
So I played a but around with Wordpress.
I've always been sceptical about it as it has been a blog platform. But Wordpress has changed a lot and believe me, one can now build excellent website with it.
Wordpress has over 12000 modules which is more than Drupal and Joomla together!
So next website will be built with Wordpress and I will be able to give a better feedback about the differences between both.
I can already say (but this is known by all drupalist) that the Wordpress admin interface is much better.
Performance seem also above what Drupal can deliver.
But I still want to see all my usual features before giving a definitive statement.
Don't like reinventing the wheel
Nov 17 2010, 10:16 am
Nov 17 2010, 10:16 am
Drupal seems to be a good stable CMS. Unfortunately, I am not a big fan of Drupal.Clients don't like the backend interface and I don't like reinventing the wheel.
Adaptivetheme
Oct 29 2010, 8:21 pm
Oct 29 2010, 8:21 pm
Theming in Drupal is easy. You can create a theme from scratch in no time. If you have already a site, porting your HTML/CSS look and feel is even easier.
For those who want to create their own professional theme, Drupal has a unique concept called "base" or "starter" theme that allows you to cut significantly development time in creating your subtheme.
One favorite base theme is Adaptivetheme, http://drupal.org/project/adaptivetheme, because it is focussed on accessibility and standards. Adaptivetheme for Drupal 7 is now HTML5! Adaptivetheme has many cool subthemes developed for it, one of them is the Mobile theme.
I find it easy to develop from â??scratchâ? with Adaptivetheme. It is easy to port your existing HTML / CSS to Adaptivetheme. If you have already a site, it is easy to map your design, HTML and CSS to Adaptivetheme, and port it with little change.
For those who want to create their own professional theme, Drupal has a unique concept called "base" or "starter" theme that allows you to cut significantly development time in creating your subtheme.
One favorite base theme is Adaptivetheme, http://drupal.org/project/adaptivetheme, because it is focussed on accessibility and standards. Adaptivetheme for Drupal 7 is now HTML5! Adaptivetheme has many cool subthemes developed for it, one of them is the Mobile theme.
I find it easy to develop from â??scratchâ? with Adaptivetheme. It is easy to port your existing HTML / CSS to Adaptivetheme. If you have already a site, it is easy to map your design, HTML and CSS to Adaptivetheme, and port it with little change.
dotpex
Oct 25 2010, 4:21 pm
Oct 25 2010, 4:21 pm
@Michael: Looks like you newer learn drupal, or you are a themer with very little knowledge of drupal, theme layer, api, fapi or hooks...
When you learn drupal, you newer turn to joomla or other cms because you then know the drupal is superior.
Vary bad for several years of using, if you really use it.
When you learn drupal, you newer turn to joomla or other cms because you then know the drupal is superior.
Vary bad for several years of using, if you really use it.
Babi?ko
Oct 4 2010, 3:57 am
Oct 4 2010, 3:57 am
Wonderful CMS this CMS :) Drupal is very strongly working and very secured CMS Script. Thanks you very much for this programming! I am using in my web site.
Jean
Oct 3 2010, 1:52 pm
Oct 3 2010, 1:52 pm
@JohnW, if you look to something at the level of ModX try Expression Engine (EE).
This is by far the best CMS I have ever used. And I've tried many.
Support is excellent, documentation is firstrate.
OK, some will point that EE is open source but you have to pay for it.
Personnally I do not mind to pay for it takes away days of headake, hacking and re-coding you will hav with the other CMS.
For those who want free CMS, ModX is certainly the best one, but with poor documentation.
OK, this is a Drupal section so I will leave a note for that CMS.
It is not bad. What is annoying is that you have to install so many modules before having some decent features.
Drupal 7 will be a bit different in that some modules will be part of the core.
I gave it a try (alpha version). On the core side it is much better than Drupal 6.x.
But I was shocked to see how slow it is.
I hope these guys will improve that.
But I would not compare ModX or EE to Drupal: these are completely other stuff. And I like them.
This is by far the best CMS I have ever used. And I've tried many.
Support is excellent, documentation is firstrate.
OK, some will point that EE is open source but you have to pay for it.
Personnally I do not mind to pay for it takes away days of headake, hacking and re-coding you will hav with the other CMS.
For those who want free CMS, ModX is certainly the best one, but with poor documentation.
OK, this is a Drupal section so I will leave a note for that CMS.
It is not bad. What is annoying is that you have to install so many modules before having some decent features.
Drupal 7 will be a bit different in that some modules will be part of the core.
I gave it a try (alpha version). On the core side it is much better than Drupal 6.x.
But I was shocked to see how slow it is.
I hope these guys will improve that.
But I would not compare ModX or EE to Drupal: these are completely other stuff. And I like them.
Cory
Oct 1 2010, 3:15 pm
Oct 1 2010, 3:15 pm
@John, I used Joomla and I used drupal. I don't like both of them. But if you think Joomla is bedroom class, then you can put Drupal in the same bedroom.
These 2 CMS are heavy, very heavy and slow. Both of them.
I installed 4 CMS on same server : Drupal, Joomla, Contao and ModX.
I added modules so that all 4 CMS very equally featured with features like blog, picture gallery, forum, editor, audio.
Drupal and Joomla were the big looser.
You can do and re-do the test as often you want : these 2 elephants will never make it.
Personnally I find them old.
But I know, some people like them.
These 2 CMS are heavy, very heavy and slow. Both of them.
I installed 4 CMS on same server : Drupal, Joomla, Contao and ModX.
I added modules so that all 4 CMS very equally featured with features like blog, picture gallery, forum, editor, audio.
Drupal and Joomla were the big looser.
You can do and re-do the test as often you want : these 2 elephants will never make it.
Personnally I find them old.
But I know, some people like them.