I know little about Joomla. WordPress is good and widely used. It however is not as expandable in my opinion.
Making Drupal templates is much more initiative than how WordPress does it. You can control how the output looked with Drupal, right down to the smallest subsection of your content.
A couple things that might help, but not a complete list of advantages of Druapl.
Themeing system, you can make a template for any content and any page.
Take a look at the Drupal CCK.
Take a look at Views.
Look into blocks - a way of managing blocks of content.
Drupal comes with a learning curve. If you have some PHP and MySql skills you probably could build anything you want with Drupal. Think framework as in PHPCake or Code Ignitor.
If you are a consultant and become fluent in Drupal you might be able to charge upwards of $150 an hour and have more work than you can handle. (there is a marketing element that is necessary)
Ok, A disclaimer - This is my paradigm. You will have to do your own do diligence to determine if Drupal is the tool for you.
I'm hoping this thread might open a productive discussion on which CMS to use and why to use it.
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Keith Smith
--- On Mon, 1/23/12,
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Subject: Re: website hosting
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Date: Monday, January 23, 2012, 6:32 AM
Why Drupal and not Wordpress?
Or Joomla?
I'm trying to make a decision myself...
Thanks! :)
ET
keith smith writes:
>
> You might want to look into a CMS. I'd recommend Drupal because it is a great framework and once you learn more programming you will be a ble to do anything you want with it.
> There is a steep learning curve, however I think it is worth it.
> ------------------------
> Keith Smith
> --- On Sun, 1/22/12, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: website hosting
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Date: Sunday, January 22, 2012, 8:55 PM
> My babies live in a foreign land and I want to start a website where fathers in a similar situation can share with each other. I suppose it would be more of a bulletin board.
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Steven Ziskin-Bailey <st3venb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Full Disclosure: I work for GoDaddy.com, my opinions however are my own and I am not speaking for GoDaddy.com or in an official respect for GoDaddy.com.
>
> Your question is a bit open ended, what do you plan on doing with said website? Is it just a personal wordpress blog? Something serious? If it's something serious I would look at the grid hosting packages... They're a little bit more expensive, but you get a load balanced cluster serving your page compared to a single server. (obviously if it's just a tinker about personal site... you don't need the whole redundancy thing as our uptime is pretty good by industry standards).
>
> With the grid and economy hosting you lost the whole website tonight functionality. But if you know html, or are having someone else design it for you -- that's not too big of a deal.
>
> If you can respond with more specifics as to what you're looking for... I'm sure the list could help you out.
> -Steven Bailey.
>
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well, I'm going to to register my first domain and get hosting with godaddy (unless you know of something better). Anyways, I don't know which hosting plan to go with, web hosting economy or 5-page website builder. I'm thinking webhosting economy but the description godaddy gives isn't very descriptive. So I suppose I should ask you guys who know more about these things then me what the pros and cons are of these different services.
>
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