Drupal up and running
Well, I implemented my bradrice.com front page to a drupal driven site. Please check it out. Drupal seems to live perfectly fine with any other pages you are serving or software living in the root folder. I decided for sanity sake to install it in a drupal folder and redirect to it. That way I will remember what folders need updated when I do update the software.
When I was considering different CMS packages to use for my site, I have to admit, the little blue drupal guy logo didn’t exactly make me feel confident. But I got past that.
I’ll still devote this Wordpress driven site to Mac and Unix articles. Drupal being open source and unix runs great on a mac. It can run on IIS with php installed. Refer to my main site for various other articles that may be of interest. I’m a web designer, so that site will cover more topics related to non-mac type development.
Drupal is a very active open source software community. That’s one reason I was led to utilize it. It’s well supported and constantly being improved by various developers. One thing you have to be careful about with an open source project like Drupal is the support you get, you have to verify it is good support. Somebody who uses Drupal and is part of the community may actually contribute bad help.
If you would have been considering Drupal, I would give it about 4 stars out of 5 so far. It was super easy to install. It takes some time to get a handle on all the options and controls. I like how it separates core code from code you can override, so you can extend it in many ways if you don’t want to use it straight out of the box.