Lately I've been playing around with a few open source CMS platforms trying to figure out which would be the best fit for my clients, and myself I guess. Building every site from scratch is history for me... basically I'm just tired of reinventing the wheel.

Word Press, Joomla!, and Drupal we all installed. The truth is each of them are good good stuff which made it a tough call. I can see where one might outweigh the other under certain requirements but in the end Drupal takes the cake, at least for me.

It seemed like Drupal did the best job at handling different languages and provided the most support for e-commerce. Drupal also seemed to include a lot of modules that are important to me, Google Adsense and Analytics.

Note! If you're using Drupal 6 and can't get your Adsense content to render, enable the PHP Filter under Modules, then create a new Block with your script and be sure to select PHP code as the Input Format! I'll explain more later, but this was a tough one for a newbie like me to figure out.

On the other hand it seems like Joomla! had better themes offered which for me being a graphicky kinda guy it was important, but not that important.

So anyways, hey, it's the new me, like it? I do... I built this guy with a little help from Drupal... a lot of help!

This little Drupal guy is pretty cool. He's easy to use, seems stable, does the dishes, doesn't drink too much and has no criminal record from what I've found.

To wrap it up, I'm very, very impressed. Simple, clean web-based GUI install, and the product itself is amazing. Nice job!

I encourage anyone trying to develop web site sites rapidly while providing an easy to use but powerful way for clients to update their own content to consider this software.

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