Design vs. Develop » afd joke http://www.designvsdevelop.com the department of planned spontaneity Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:00:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Ready for a change http://www.designvsdevelop.com/ready-for-a-change/ http://www.designvsdevelop.com/ready-for-a-change/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:02:21 +0000 Joe LeBlanc http://www.designvsdevelop.com/04/01/ready-for-a-change/ After spending some time working with Drupal yesterday, I had a string of epiphanies. I now understand the power and simplicity of the platform; I will soon be dropping my Joomla! work. There are several reasons for the change:

  • I’ve made too many excuses for Joomla!’s two-step categorization system. Nodes and taxonomies are more flexible (and have a nice ring to them).
  • Joomla! has too many extension types and too many 3PD extensions are needed to run a real site. Most of the functionality I need should be in the core to begin with.
  • I spend considerable time moderating my forum, so the next logical step is to go with an integrated comment system on all of my content. Drupal is far superior in this regard.

Finally, many of you are aware of my current license plate. Fortunately, the DMV also has my new favorite CMS available as well. It’s ordered and on the way:

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