evatt.com

Which is better - Drupal or Joomla? It depends on what you are trying to do and how much time you have to do it.

I have used Mambo, Joomla 1.0.x, Joomla 1.5, and now Drupal 5.x. When I thought I had to upgrade from Joomla 1.0.x to Joomla 1.5 due to server issues (I was wrong... but I upgraded anyways), I did research into the best / easiest CMS to allow me to have a blog and allow Adine to showcase her art.

At first I tried to install and configure Drupal. The learning curve is much, much steeper than Joomla's. After two days, I scrapped Drupal and installed Joomla 1.5. It took me less than a day to build my site in Joomla. I was happy with the results. That is until I realized that I could not get any type of SEO out of Joomla. And since I have given a couple talks on SEO, I was embarrassed for my blog to be that bad with SEO. I also wanted tags and comments. Neither one looked possible with Joomla 1.5rc3 at the time.