Drupal

Kommentare: Drupal may become an amazing solution to your needs of managing huge content and building a site in a relatively short time. The platform is as simplified as possible so that people with no developing skills could also use it but still, you can find it kind of complicated to use. However, I absolutely recommend you to give it a try.

Vorteile: One of my favorite features of Drupal is to choose the content type. Though other platform competitors allow writing some content and build pages, they do not let you choose the type of content with all its different features. Besides, you will be satisfied to find out how flexible and easy customizable the platform is. It doesn’t require special skills to edit your content and manage your website. If you are short of time but you need to quickly build websites or update the content of your website without the professional help of web developers then Drupal is the platforms you are looking for. The platform is well suited for managing a large amount of content. It can be used both for business and personal purposes since it suggests a number of variants of customizing and adjusting it to your needs.

Nachteile: The platform suggests ready themes which you may apply if you want, but to tell the truth, those themes look very simple and not professional. So if you want your website to look attractive and professional you should build your own themes.
For using the software at first you need to install it in on your PC. As it turns out it is not an easy task and need the help of a specialist to install it.
On the one hand, it is amazing to have so many tools at hand, on the other hand, it may be confusing to choose which tool exactly you need to apply to get the desired result.

Kommentare: The security of having a tool that allows me to deal with almost any web project that requires content management, scalability and security.

Vorteile: If you have to face the development of an intranet or a medium or complex web project, Drupal is definitely one of the options that you have to consider. It is open source backed by a large community that has been committed for years to a project that is characterized by its flexibility and security. Drupal provides a robust content authoring platform and is capable of handling large numbers of users with clear rules and permits. One of the bases of Drupal is its system of modules. Eventually, almost any functionality you may need can be added to the system through modules (built based on PHP, JavaScript, HTML and CSS). And yet, I bet you will not even have to develop it, because surely it will already be available among the immense amount of modules that the community has contributed during these years (especially for version 7). The theme system is another of the important element. If you do not need to develop your own interface from scratch, you can choose one of the large number of free themes available and adapt it to your needs, being able to even configure many features without modifying the source code. Certainly, it does not seem like a very intuitive method, but once you understand it you can implement almost everything you need. In its latest version, Drupal has been almost completely modernized; it has discarded many failures that hindered its performance and have included in its core many important functionalities that were contributed by modules.

Nachteile: Drupal can be difficult to deal with for non-developer or technical profile users. Depending on your objectives, the learning curve can be considerable.

The fact of being an almost module-dependent system for most of the functionalities can force you to deal with many configurations, compatibility issues and workflows when you want to implement complex functionalities that may even need several modules working together. As I see it, this is not necessarily a negative thing, but rather the cost of the flexibility and power it gives you.

If the design and the appearance are important in your project, you will have to put a little more effort into the work; unfortunately, many of Drupal's graphic themes do not look as fashionable or in trend as those of WordPress, which is still the leader in this section. It is possible to achieve it, but you will have to dedicate time or pay for it.

As the number of modules and the database grows, the performance of Drupal may be affected, so it is important to learn to keep it in shape and updated, activate the cache and continuously evaluate the relevance and usefulness of each of the added modules. Although it has been greatly optimized with the arrival of Drupal 8, it is not something that should be neglected in medium and large projects.