www.michael-jansen.biz

It's under a week since i have switched my blog from silverstripe to drupal. And i'm astonished. I had expected that drupal would be more mature than Silverstripe but not such a big difference. With drupal i was able to achieve every goal i had set myself in a very short time. Do not assume that silverstripe is a bad system, but for someone like me who only wants a system that works it's not yet there. I'm pretty sure they will get there.

Now i just have to go and apologize to some of my friends. I told them to use silverstripe. And if i can't get silverstripe to do what i want i'm pretty sure they can't either.

But back to drupal. The configuration is intuitive most of the time. I sometimes get confused trying to find a setting in the administration menu. They have :

• Content Management
• Site Building
• Site Configuration
• User Management
• Reports

For example i always look for modules configuration ( enable/disable modules ) - under "Site Configuration". But it is under "Site Building". I don't know why but i always seem to forget where it was last time.

But that's just a minor thing. Everything else convinced me. I had:

• setup my blog,
• some static pages,
• a hidden page in to languages,
• email notification on new comments
• and a new role for content producer
on the first day without taking a glimpse at the documentation. Everything worked as expected.

All in all i only can say: "Go ahead and use drupal".

Mike