Drupal, Joomla, Mambo or Moodle?

I want to use an open source content management system to maintain a small community newspaper with simple functionality like community calendar, small adverts, news articles etc.

Drupal looks the most customizable and powerful of those I have looked at. Is this the most appropriate?

July 31, 2010 | Filed Under Drupal 

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3 Responses to “Drupal, Joomla, Mambo or Moodle?”

  1. Elpie on July 31st, 2010 3:50 pm

    Moodle is not a good option for a community newspaper. Joomla, Mambo and Drupal are all customisable but each have their strengths and weaknesses. Mambo or even Joomla 1.0.x versions are easier to work with than Drupal and have a large number of additional, optional features provided by 3rd party developers. There is also a strong professional support base for both of these. Skinning/theming either Mambo or Joomla is also much easier than Drupal.

    That said, Drupal has some features "out of the box" that are more suited to a community newspaper. You can certainly do this with the others but once you get past the learning curve I think Drupal would be a better choice. It has more of a focus on creating an interactive, community site.

    There are already a number of newspaper sites using it very successfully. For example: http://www.observer.com/

  2. alan on July 31st, 2010 3:50 pm

    I like Drupal. Kudos for supporting free software.

  3. Gerry R on July 31st, 2010 3:50 pm

    Moodle is designed more as a course-management system and probably won’t do what you want in the end. Been there. Done that and I was looking specifically for course management. :-)

    Stick with Drupal.

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