I’m back to working on this church website relaunch that has been haunting me for over a year. I was originally going to use Wordpress as a hacked CMS, but the more I played with it, the less it was working for me, since I couldn’t really find a way to aggregate several separate Wordpress installations into one site for navigation, etc.
So I’m looking at Joomla or Drupal. I’ve got a local installation of Joomla going, but the administrative interface seems very kludgy to me — four or five clicks to get one entry up and published. I haven’t played with Drupal yet — I’m a little intimidated by all of the blog posts I see about how complex it is. Chris Pirillo built the Gnomedex site on Joomla and it looks great.
When I get this thing built, I want to hand it off to the various leaders and ministers to post their own content, so it needs to be robust enough to build properly and simple enough to easily train people on the care and feeding of their content.
Any suggestions? thoughts?
Update 5/2/2007: To those of you who recommended Joomla: All I can say is that it must mirror how a Mac works, because I about went nuts trying to do the simple things, just like I do whenever I use a Mac. Drupal isn’t all that simple, but it makes more sense to me, so Drupal 5.1 is the final choice.
