Drupal - Opens Source CMS

[Vyoma]

How many of you have a website that runs on a CMS, and in them have anyone of you tried Drupal?

URL: http://www.drupal.org

I am presently running a website using Drupal, and I really like the extreme flexibility it provides.

That said - it is flexible - but its out of the box approach towards the content ("everything is a node") and modularized approach to features (more in UNIX/LINUX style) has made it hard for other CMS users to shift to Drupal, and even ones who are beginning to.

But once some one adapts to Drupal, they become highly addicted to it. :P

[Lyte]

Hey Vyoma,

Can you show us an example of your Drupal work? What version are you using? What do you like or dislike about it?

I'm very curious about Drupal because for a while now I've been thinking PC101 needed some kind of CMS (content mgmt system) but was never sure which to use. More recently, Drupal was recommended to me but I'm but I'm not clear on just why it's best. I hope you can shed some light on this particular CMS... there are so many to chose from!

Thanks!

Lyte

[Vyoma]

Well, here is my site: WiseTome.com
It is running on Drupal 4.7

Mind you. That is a very simplistic design I chose. And it has not been updated a lot. I am concentrating on a blog under it now. Soon, I plan to expand the effort to the main site itself.

There are better examples like the Drupal site itself.

Things that I like about Drupal:
- Open Source with a huge community
- All content is considered as a node - no sets of content are inherently categoriezed. That gives you maximum flexibility. You can use any subset of the contents in the DB anyway you choose and show them any way you want.
- Powerful categorization/taxonomy module (this added to the node system gives the basic flexibility and power of Drupal).
- All features are modules. For example, if you activate the comment module, they can be used against any kind of content you have at the site.

Dislikes:
- It is a bit hard learning curve. Because of the immense flexibility, it looks very complicated
- No proper integration with phpBB like Joomla/Mamboo. I do not like this. But I think they have integration for vB. Just go through the contributed modules and you should find it.

[Lyte]

Thanks for the UBER fast response! Simple or not... your site looks cool!

Lemme know if you do an "contract" work. I leaning more and more to adding a CMS to PC101. I don't know how to work these CMS applications so I'd need to find someone more experienced!

Keep up the good work!

Lyte

[Vyoma]

You are welcome, Lyte. Usually, when I am online on a forum, and there is enough activity, I get into a posting frenzy. (Do not worry, I keep them all intelligent, and conversation oritented. :P)

Anyway, you can have a look at Drupal site and see what they have to offer. And if you like it, you can commit to it, because, I see that you have a good forum here that is generating good content. More formalized content could be kept at the CMS.

With regard to the "contract" work, I will send you a PM and we can discuss it through PMs.

[Lyte]

Originally Posted by Vyoma

With regard to the "contract" work, I will send you a PM and we can discuss it through PMs.

Excellent! I'll go peep the Drupal site and see what I can fathom! lol

Lyte

[dr911]

Welcome to PC101......Vyoma.

I have checked out you site (WiseTome.com). I notice one thing though....Who's online section. You site shows "There are currently 0 users and 0 guests online". I was on your site (using IE 6.0) and refreshed the page,,,,still it shows "There are currently 0 users and 0 guests online."

You may want to look into this !!

Also, in your META-TAGS. They should look something like this"

<META NAME = "description" CONTENT = "What ever your site is about goes here.">
<META NAME = "keywords" CONTENT = "Very important key words should go here for good placement with search engines">
<META NAME="revised" CONTENT="00/00/00">
<META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global">
<META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="10 days">
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="All">
<META NAME="rating" CONTENT="General">
<META NAME="copyright" CONTENT="your own copy-right go here">

Hope this helps. I've been designing web sites for over 10-12 years now, need any help...IM me !!

[Vyoma]

<META NAME = "description" CONTENT = "What ever your site is about goes here.">
<META NAME = "keywords" CONTENT = "Very important key words should go here for good placement with search engines">
<META NAME="revised" CONTENT="00/00/00">
<META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global">
<META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="10 days">
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="All">
<META NAME="rating" CONTENT="General">
<META NAME="copyright" CONTENT="your own copy-right go here">

Ah! I worked on the theme and left it unchanged. :P I need to change that.

But the who's online section... that is odd. It worked for most of the time I tested. I will check it out.

Edit: I just opened up my site in FireFox, Opera and IE. It shows the following:

Who's online
There are currently 1 user and 3 guests online.
Online users

* Vyoma

[dr911]

Vyoma,

I too went to your site using IE, FF and Netscape
"There are currently 0 users and 0 guests online."

[Vyoma]

Originally Posted by dr911

Vyoma,

I too went to your site using IE, FF and Netscape
"There are currently 0 users and 0 guests online."

I am not sure how I can fix it. There seems to be some cookie problem. Oddly, there have been no members (the few what so ever, ) who indicated me of this problem.

May be I would better switch off that module. It does not that important since there are not many members who are simultaneously online and the site itself does not provide any means of interaction between them other than the comment sections.