Tutorial Discussion - Installing an Configuring Drupal 61.

Ducani · #1 (**permalink**) 03-24-2008, 07:54 AM

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Installing an Configuring Drupal 6.1

ryanhellyer · #2 (**permalink**) 03-24-2008, 05:27 PM

Interesting tutorial.

I installed a test Drupal site a few weeks ago. I quite liked my experience with it.

I don't have a use for it right now, but hopefully get to have another go at it
with a real site some day. It was much easier to handle than Joomla. The HTML output is much more sanitised and it seems to have a superior templating system.

Unfortunately I think it will take a lot more than a few pages of a tutorial to figure it out well enough to get a full site up and running. There are a lot of options in there and configuring the templating system will take quite some time to figure out!

It reminds me a lot of WordPress, but with a MASSIVE number of extra bits tacked on.

coder4hire · #3 (**permalink**) 03-27-2008, 07:56 AM

ryanhellyer hit the nail on the head: Joomla may look easier to work with initially, but the HTML that it produces can be a horrid tables-based mess.

ryanhellyer · #4 (**permalink**) 03-28-2008, 09:04 AM

Yeah, I've never understood why people like Joomla so much. I was told it was easy to set up. But as soon as I started wading through the template files I ran away as fast as possible.

It reminds me of the jumbled mess that is SMF - I'm slowly working my way through one of those at the moment weeding out all the errant pointless code.