I have read about this topic on the following link and found it really useful
Drupal Vs Joomla But the following link has been unavailable recently
for some unknown reason (date: 18th June), however I had a copy of the page so
I am posting the same material in a slightly edited way for other users so that
they can also benefit from it.



Then place your table within that class:

	Joomla	Drupal
Community Features	Community Builder - a great component, but needs an SEF extension to enable URLs like Youtube.	Really good, Users can form groups and expansion of the registraion form is native to Drupal.
SSL Compatible	Does not comes default or naturally, you need to put in some hack to do it.	Drupal is SSL compatible.
SEO	This is one feature that Joomla lags behind. OpenSEF is the hope for joomla. SEF Advance is roughly comparable quality but costs 50 Euros. However the code is not really optimized. Altogether a negative point.	Optimized for SEO purpose, the outof box URL work in a fine manner and you can use addon omdules to improve it. The code is well optimized
Forums	JoomlaBoard lacks many important features. It is suggested that you SMF with Joomla	Even though it lacks in high end features but comparably smoother than Joomla. You can also go for VbDrupal.
Multimedia	Supported with a lot of options.	Both podcast & drupal video option available.
Photo Galleries	You can use Gallery2 or Flashexpose. Photo galleries are well supported.	You can use Gallery2 option or use the default module.
Event Calendars	offers a lot of options in form of plug ins and integration	Not comparable to the features offered by Joomla.
Blogs	Uses a port of Wordpress. Some out-of-the-box capability. For more information visit here.	Its a decent enough blog though again some high end features are missing.
Document Management	DocMan is the default document management system.	Lags behind in this area.
Template / Themes	Joomla really has a great deal of offering in terms of themes and templates that can be applied to various pages.	Not many choices available. The default choise are not really good. Earlier versions allow only one template for all pages though that will change with Drupal 5.X.
User Permissions	Joomla has a very centralized admin area. Few people can be passed on permissions beyond adding posts or adding content.	Drupal has a much better system, though its group based management and not a single user based management.
Multisites Management	Available only commercially.	Perhaps one of the most desirable features of drupal.
Content Management	Joomla is very restrictive in choices it offers..	Unlimited taxonomy, vocabulary, categories and subcategories. Drupal is way ahead.
Documentation	Previous versions had poor documentation, Joomla 1.5 seems to improve on that. However, a lot of useful information on the Joomla forums.	Not too bad.
Commercial Community	Excellent, one of the strongest in Open Source SMS.Try Joomla Yellow Pages or Joomla.org.	Weak. Try Drupal.org, Drupal Yellow Pages or Drupalancers.
External Integration	Joomla 1.5 is supposed to have better API and more hooks for external integration.	Drupal is the choice if you are looking for external integration, It has option for plenty of hooks.
Standards Compliance	Not great. Accessible Joomla is a fork necessary to move Joomla towards compliance. Mambo/Joomla dates from before standards were even considered (1999).	Excellent support
General Community	Great. Both commercial and open source support available.	Great, try Drupal.org, its really helpful.
Ease-of-use	Joomla is really easy to start with, even for non-technical amateur users.	Drupal takes some time before you start understanding on how to do things.
Size	Version 1.5 is 16.7 MB	Version 5.0 is 2.89 MB
Learning Curve	One of the easiest CMS to learn and use.	Slightly tough as compared to Joomla, but otherwise easy.
Internationalization	You can tryJoomfish but its not a natural solution.	Excellent support
Shopping Cart	Has both Virtuemart and an integration of OSCommerce. You can use OSCommerce for multicurrency option or if the payment gateway is not supported by Virtuemart.	Ubercart is the hope for Drupal but there are not many good options avialable.
Speed	A default installation of 1.5 loads in 1.33 seconds. (Scores from http://sitescore.silktide.com)	A default installation loads in 1.05 seconds. (Score from http://sitescore.silktide.com)
Overall	Producing a good-looking site with plenty of functionality is a relatively easy task with Joomla.	Drupal is more community-oriented and the current live version is more extensible.

Once again thanks to the above alledia.com link for the information they have
collected and provided.

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I had been researching google trends recently and tried on Joomla vs Drupal.
You can see the latest results for yourself using the following link:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=joomla%2C+drupal

One thing that really surprised me was the continous rise of popularity of Joomla while Drupal just maintained its place. However as can be seen the overall popularity of both the CMS systems is on rise.

For new comers who would be wondering why Joomla's graph starts after 2005 only, its because in 2005, the bulk of Mambo's developers left mambo and developed Joomla.
The popularity of Joomla can be attributed to its balance between key features like

1) functionality
2) flexibility
3) performance
4) quality of code
5) ease of use
6) documentation
7) user interface design
8) support and product marketing.

Having said that I think Joomla is a strong competitor to Drupal in terms of popularity.

Thanks

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I have been reading about webhosting plans that are specially optimized for Drupal or Joomla. I suggest that you are expecting a good amount of traffic then you should take a look at either of these link.

http://drupal.org/node/2601
http://www.robshouse.net/drupal-performance-issues

There are certain websites that offer plan especially optimized for either Drupal or Joomla. One such website for your consideration is.



i feel its a good deal if you are especially looking for a server that is being optimized for either of these CMS. Check it out.

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Outlining reasons why I chose Drupal for SEO

1) You can rename any of your page so that is shows as a page instead of a link to a node. This is a very important part if you want you page to be ranked higher in google.

2)Although you can rename your page to your choice, it also has a suggest name module, that names your page according to the content, a nice idea as you get a name that might be more appropriate in terms of what web spiders are looking for.


I will be editing this post regularly for more stuff as I keep on discovering and experimenting with them.

contd later...

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Found a list of some of the most prominent websites have implemented Drupal over Joomla

www.airamerica.com
www.linuxjournal.com
www.theonion.com
www.goodstorm.com
www.projectopus.com
http://appel.nasa.gov

Also IBM sited a good number of reasons for their preference of Drupal over Joomla.
So may be my choice for Drupal will prove itself to be correct. Looking for such a list for Joomla too..

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I was facing some problem with expanded menus on my acne site, i will first descibe the problem below and then the solution.

The problem was that if I created menus with Multiple Items/Sub menus with "Expanded option" checked in menu settings then the menu will always show up in a expanded stage. So I had five menus with items all of them used to show up in a expanded state which was really a mess considering the user friendliness and the time it takes to load. If the expanded option was checked off, then the menus will not expand even if clicked or on the target page. I had this problem when I had applied the module for Global Redirect (which is otherwise a really good module for the purpose of SEO).

The solution:

The problem it turned out was that I had been giving full url in the url path of my menu, which means that if my menu was Acne Treatment, then the path I was giving was
http://www.complete-acne-treatment.com/main_acne_treatment

This seemed to have mess up the Drupal Interface.

The correct way to apply such menus with global redirect is to give the url path only as:
main_acne_treatment
and not as
http://www.complete-acne-treatment.com/main_acne_treatment.

This should correct the problem in regard to expanded menus and with global redirect.

Let me know if it helps anybody or if you are still having problem.

Tag: Drupal Problem with Expanded Menus.

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I have installed drupal 5.x on one of my site - Acne Treatment as i did discussed in other posts, but it seems that Drupal 5.X lacks the kind of community support that was for previous version. I have been struggling to find a small module for sliding menu's completely expanded menu's are not the thing that I will like on my site. All the versions for sliding menu's still seem to be for previous versions. In fact could find few things that have been updated for 5.X till the time of writing this post. I think there needs to be a more detailed tutorial on how to modify templates or may be I am missing the correct link to such tutorial.

Other thing that I find a little problematic with Drupal is that there seems to be complete absence of support for modules of earlier version, this problem I think does not exists with Joomla (on basis of what I have read).

More to come on my experiments on Drupal Vs Joomla

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I installed my first ever CMS yesterday - DRUPAL, after uploading it took me 10 minutes to configure and get it running. I don't understand how can anyone find it hard to install Drupal and if still a Joomla installation is easier then Drupal then Joomla must be god. Anyhow after installing Drupal I have spent quite a few hours testing it out on my test site for acne Complete acne treatment, I have been able to get it running in a good shape. I am still not into modifying themese for Drupal, though there is an obvious lack of variety in Drupal themes but I hope it performs as it is publicised.

Will post more on Drupal Vs Joomla CMS systems.

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Some opinion on Drupal Vs Joomla from the users on Joomla forum.

Use Mambo(Joomla) when:* don't know about the technical stuff or are not interested
* you need a easy install procedure just like a software system
* you are not interested in learning a lot of the tool you are using
* you don't plan to integrate any complex scripts into the program.
* you want a candy site and don't mind several other sites using the same template(s)
* you are not much interested in SEO
* you are not interested about server resources
* you're planning your first or few sites only
* you are not interested in a single login for all sites
* you don't need user memberships and groupings etc.


Use Drupal because:* Drupal offers a high quality platform
* Drupal offers a real multi-site-feature (only one installation for several sites)
* Drupal offers any kind of user groups permissions
* Drupal offers membership- and community sites, not just CMS etc
* Drupal offers a Powerful templating system
* Drupal needs a bit more of your time
* Drupal offers clear, high quality code and API
* Drupal offers unlimited flexibility


More to come on Drupal Vs Joomla

Reference:(http://forum.joomla.org/index.php?topic=4364.msg35306)

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I have been trying to study which of the two CMS - joomla or drupal may be a better option for start. After reading a lot of articles from various sites and opinion of different users, this is my initial inference.

Joomla is a the way to go if you are setting up your first site and you are not sure about the things. However for a seasoned professional Drupal seems to be the better choice.

Drupal is younger of two as such they have built upon some of the weakness of Joomla, like Drupal offers extensive content management system (CMS)that joomla does not offers.

Drupal is more faster if you have catching enabled on your webserver and expect a lot of traffic.

Drupal seems to offer a more efficient and cleaner code as compared to Joomla.

Drupal seems to enjoy a greater community support as compared to Joomla.

Drupal has a relatively easier API as compared to Joomla.

Drupal offers unlimited article nesting using the taxonomy, or by using the excellent Category module.

However I believe most of this features are more important for professional or say big websites.

For amateur and hobbyists. Joomla has to offer the following

Very easy to setup out of box solution

A large number of available themes to customize your website.

Many drupal modules are broken in 5.0.

Drupal CSS is divided into 17 files (although you can club them), which makes it a real pain to customize it.

Joomla is more popular of the two systems. reference google trends.


I think I will still go for Drupal because the website I am working on is supposed to be a big project and definitely content management system is the keyword there. I will be experimenting with Joomla on some other site shortly and will keep this posted.

Reference: http://drupal.org/node/109428

More to come on Drupal Vs Joomla

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I think I will have to take back my initial observation or analysis on Powerful templating in Drupal as compared to Joomla. As posted in one of the comments by Amy Stephen, Joomla has a much more bigger variety of templates than Drupal. Drupal 5.X is lacking on the themes and there is not much of variety to choose from. Joomla will definitely score out there over Drupal as far as variety of themes is concerned.

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