Drupal is very difficult to learn, but worthwhile.
Been playing with Drupal, seems very powerful if a bit hard to get yer head around, initially at least. Seem to have to install a lot of modules to get fairly basic functionality working. Quite confusing to find all the setting for each module as well but maybe i'll get used to it.
Just after having a quick sconse at Joomla, seems nice and easy to use by comparison but i take it there's less flexability then Drupal, would imagine it's easier to setup a quick site using Joomla though.
no idea which one to look into further now ...
Someone said joomla has it's limitations, could you expand on that?
Joomla has serious limitations in my opinion. You cannot control how your data is presented. Say you have an archive list of article and you want to sort them by "top rated" or "most views" or "oldest first" or "newest first" its very difficult to do.
Also you cannot categorise something under 1 or more categories. Say you have a ford truck and you want to put it under "Ford" and "Truck" its not possible in Joomla.
Your front page is not very customisable. You can control which items appear on the front page and their order but that's about it. if you want different layouts you are quite restricted.
If you want to define your content to have certain attributes in Joomla its very difficult. Lets say you are writing an article and you want to have an Author BIO at the bottom its not easily done with Joomla.
If you want Joomla to do anything other than what its intended for out of the box you really need to provide serious work arounds.
Its a good CMS to get started with, but it has lots of security issues on a regular basis and I find it difficult to work with on a long term basis.
Drupal is very flexible, but also complex to understand. I just got around to using the Views and Content Construction Kit Modules, which are very powerful but require alot of patience. Now that I understand it though I'm thrilled with the possibilities.
I recently set up an Image Gallery
Vintage JDM Image Gallery | Vintage JDM which I'm still working on. It uses CCK (Content Construction Kit) and the Views module. Images are automatically resized with the ImageCache module, if I decide to change the size of those thumbnails it is relatively easy to do as the original images are stored and then resized into 2 / 3 /4 or however many sizes you want.
You can see I also included the rating of each image. I can also provide a facility to sort the images by creation date, rating, user comments, category - the list goes on.
I read once that Joomla assumes everything about your site and Drupal assumes nothing, this is why Joomla is easier out of the box, because it provides some form of structure to your website. Drupal provides nothing its waiting for you to define its structure and therefore is harder to use first time around.
There are so many CMS solutions and I've tested loads of different ones, but for me I'm quite happy with Drupal now. I wish I used it when I built
Datsun 240z 260z, 260z 2+2 and 280zx Club Australia as I would have only needed 1 piece of software, instead I need 3. 1 for front page (Joomla), 1 for Gallery (Coppermine), 1 for Forum (SMF).
It all depends on the needs of your website and how likely they are to change over time.