http://eiffelroom.com/tag/open_source Comments for "open source" en http://eiffelroom.com/blog/juliant/oscms_2007#comment-182 <p>I find myself advising someone on the selection of a CMS for a web site. Xoops and Drupal seem like the top contenders for them. You gave Drupal a recommendation by using it; I was just wondering why.</p> Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:32:34 -0700 neallester comment 182 at http://eiffelroom.com http://eiffelroom.com/blog/juliant/oscms_2007#comment-181 <p>The most important reason was probably that I didn't now Xoops ;)</p> <p>But after a quick look at it I still think Drupal was the right choice:</p> <ul> <li> Input format customization for Xoops seems not as powerful as the Drupal alternative. Mediawiki format and syntax highlighting make it easy for us to use this site since we are all used to it from the EiffelStudio wiki already as it works exactly the same here.</li> <li> Clean URLs: This is especially important for search engines. Drupal supports it out of the box, but Xoops on the other hand has not even clean URLs on their homepage.</li> <li> Plugin mechanism: Drupal's plugin mechanism is simple yet powerful as any module can alter behaviour of core modules and even other modules. The Xoops way (without looking at it really close) looks like the modules are more isolated and don't interact too much.</li> </ul> <p>But as I said, I don't know the inner workings of Xoops and after working with Drupal my opinion may be biased ;)</p> <p>(Do you know more about Xoops? Why do you propose it?)</p> Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:20:00 -0700 juliant comment 181 at http://eiffelroom.com http://eiffelroom.com/blog/juliant/oscms_2007#comment-168 <p>Why did you choose Drupal over Xoops?</p> Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:05:43 -0700 neallester comment 168 at http://eiffelroom.com