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#16 2007-03-09 19:12:56
- sparkybarkalot
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Re: textpattern vs drupal
In my experience Drupal is a bear to wrap your mind around and understand it, while TextPattern makes sense rather quickly. Most of my clients are just looking for a basic CMS so they can edit the site themselves, and TextPattern wins hands-down for this. For large, complex projects I think Drupal is a better choice. But I would say don’t go to Drupal until you have to… TextPattern is a really nice piece of work. Also, in my experience, the TextPattern community is much more responsive in the forums. With Drupal, most of the time you’ll find the exact question you have in the Drupal Q&A area (getting there from a Google search) only to find that no one has responded to the question. I’d say about 100% of the questions I’ve had about Drupal have shown up there, with about 80% of them having gone unanswered. With TextPattern, I would say I’ve had nearly a 100% response rate to my questions, or questions I’ve search Google for.
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Re: textpattern vs drupal
sparkybarkalot wrote:
In my experience Drupal is a bear to wrap your mind around and understand it, while TextPattern makes sense rather quickly.
Meanwhile, elsewhere:
Which illustrates your point fairly well, imho.
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I’ve always pictured textpattern as an orchid and drupal as a petunia, which illustrates my apathy toward NASCAR.
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What did they add to your drinks today? ;-)
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They just handed me the kool-aid and I starrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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wet, nice chart.
mrdale, Nascar ain’t what it used to be, there was a time when it was fun to watch.
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Re: textpattern vs drupal
i’m looking into TXP after spending a long time trying to figure out drupal. drupal is not for a casual blogger in my opinion, you have to envision a pretty complex site to warrant using that CMS. the main reason i say this is because even if you can figure out your site’s core structure you have a whole other set of tasks ahead for theming the site. that’s why a lot of drupal sites dont look so hot unfortunately.
so can TXP create a community site where people are allowed to have profiles and upload content to the site? for this sort of task i am going to tough it out with drupal but if people are doing it with textpattern i’d be willing to look at this CMS a little closer
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Not really, not right now. This kind of community site isn’t TXP forte. It may be done, depending on what you cant exactly, but it’s not aim at this, it lack a lot of things in this area.
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#24 2008-11-18 06:04:30
- jingjang
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Re: textpattern vs drupal
i love both of them
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well since i last posted in this thread it’s become quite apparent to me that txp rules for my needs. i still can’t get a basic site running in drupal. although i’m sure it’s awesome once you can get it working.
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marryGarry wrote:
I love TXP, but I look wistfully at Drupal’s feature-set and visualize some of those features in the TXP context. I have been informed that Drupal is a “framework” and TXP is not, but I’m still not sure practically what that means
someone could probably clarify this better, but i think Drupal and TXP are both Content Management Systems, but things like CakePHP are frameworks which you can use to build similar projects but with more control.
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