WEB/DIGITAL Drupal

[royemunson]

Anyone here ever use Drupal.org to build their website?

Just curious as it appears promising with lots of features
and many have recommended it over at the
webmasterworld forum.

JOe

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

Its a great CMS with lots of add-ons. I actually spent 2 hours there today trying to determine if I should use it to run my blog. However, its so much more powerful than just plain blogging. As with most CMS's, its really for running a community type portal: i.e. Newspaper sites, communities, etc.

Example: Here is a list of all the churches that run Drupal
http://groups.drupal.org/node/2700

The learning curve on it is supposedly difficult as well. However, you can't go wrong with "Free"!



~ MJ

 

[Peter2]

you can't go wrong with "Free"!

Free is a good price.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

http://www.absolutecross.com/webmaster/articles/best-drupal-sites/

A list of solid drupal sites ... AskANinja.com!

 

[royemunson]

I downloaded it last night and there is a long list of stuff to utilize and go through.
Seems to be set up for programmers and webmasters, but hey we all start somewhere and you're right - can't beat free.

Doing a community niche site is something I'm looking into so that would be perfect.

We'll see what happens,

Joe

 

[MJ DeMarco]

There are plenty of Drupal resources as well ... check out the books at Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/103-7967822-9175011?initialSearch=1&url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=drupal&Go.x=10&Go.y=11&Go=Go

For someone motivated, they can create a full-scale, customized community site if they are willing to learn. The education is out there for the taking -- buy a book, read it, study it, and take action: Wholla, you have the education (for 1/1000th the price of a college degree) to create a website that can generate 1000's of visitors.

Now as for pegging a revenue model onto the site, that is a wee-bit more difficult. I know selling ad-space can be done but I'm not sure how lucrative that is. I've heard rumors of bloggers making $100K/mo in ad revenues but never found any confirmation of it.