Drupal, huh?

[LeoniK]

After several months of research, it has become apparent that few of the web development and design companies in South Africa, who claim to be on top of their game, know much about Drupal.

Having phoned around to several potential web developers in Gauteng and the Western Cape, the response was mostly....Drupal, huh? Could you spell that? This seems particularly strange given the robustness of Drupal as a content management system and SA's tendency to embrace anything that comes as a freebie.

Have I been asking around the wrong quarters?

 

[Veroland]

Sorry, never heard of it. Seriously, never heard of it.

It looks ok though. How does it compare to the big names?

 

[midrange]

You spent several months asking potential web developers about Drupal?

Everyone loves .NET in SA.

 

[midrange]

The local drupal site is pretty shocking, to be honest.

 

[LeoniK]

You spent several months asking potential web developers about Drupal?

Everyone loves .NET in SA.

Open source is the wave of the future, especially in developing countries like ours. .NET will never lose the smell of Microsoft.

 

[LeoniK]

The local drupal site is pretty shocking, to be honest.

The local drupal site is shocking indeed and the posts for jobs have been running for months now, which kind of underlines what I have experienced.

Saw a post of yours, guying that you want to get out of your current employ, perhaps this is the way to go.

 

[LeoniK]

Sorry, never heard of it. Seriously, never heard of it.

It looks ok though. How does it compare to the big names?

compared to WordPress and Joomla, Drupal is the more secure and stable of the lot. The main complaint has been the difficulty of themability. Developers have tried to sort that in the Drupal 6 version.

I am not that familiar with DotNetNuke, but have done some information management for an NGO that uses it and found it to be limited at the back-end.

 

[Veroland]

Open source is the wave of the future, especially in developing countries like ours. .NET will never lose the smell of Microsoft.

yes, but big companies are scared of open source. They believe if they don't pay a helluva lot for something there will be no support

 

[Venom Rush]

To put it bluntly, Drupal sucks ****!

If you want a content managed site then look at having a site developed in Joomla. There's a very large South African community more than willing to help out.

 

[midrange]

Saw a post of yours, guying that you want to get out of your current employ, perhaps this is the way to go.
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You a developer? I've written 3 or 4 sites in Drupal.


"The main complaint has been the difficulty of themability." - I use the Zen css theme. It's a breeze using that. Last site I wrote using it: http://croomcycles.com/

 

[LeoniK]

To put it bluntly, Drupal sucks ****!

If you want a content managed site then look at having a site developed in Joomla. There's a very large South African community more than willing to help out.

That has been the response of most people who have become accustomed to joomla, but when it comes to security joomla is full of holes.

 

[LeoniK]

You a developer? I've written 3 or 4 sites in Drupal.


"The main complaint has been the difficulty of themability." - I use the Zen css theme. It's a breeze using that. Last site I wrote using it: http://croomcycles.com/

Not a developer, freelance design, but also not my speciality, web-driven businesses and marketing solutions more my game.

Really need a freelance Drupal developer who can create customised modules and is an ace at multiple theming within one drupal installation.

 

[midrange]

Really need a freelance Drupal developer who can create customised modules and is an ace at multiple theming within one drupal installation.

Let's talk. (I'm off now, PM me)

 

[LeoniK]

Croom?

Last site I wrote using it: http://croomcycles.com/

Where on earth is Croom? I assume it is somewhere in the UK? I could Google it I know, but how did you get to develop a site for a company based in Croom?

 

[midrange]

Croom is in Ireland, I worked there until their economy crashed and burned.

 

[adrianx]

... and SA's tendency to embrace anything that comes as a freebie...

Sigh, if only this were true!

I think France is one of the countries that embraces opensource the most.

Many third world countries believe that they will miss out if they don't go the Microsoft route, it would seem.... I don't believe opensource is nearly as popular as it should be in SA.

 

[icyrus]

After several months of research, it has become apparent that few of the web development and design companies in South Africa, who claim to be on top of their game, know much about Drupal.

Having phoned around to several potential web developers in Gauteng and the Western Cape, the response was mostly....Drupal, huh? Could you spell that? This seems particularly strange given the robustness of Drupal as a content management system and SA's tendency to embrace anything that comes as a freebie.

Have I been asking around the wrong quarters?

Try Telamenta. I believe that they do drupal work.

 

[Bismuth]

To put it bluntly, Drupal sucks ****!

If you want a content managed site then look at having a site developed in Joomla. There's a very large South African community more than willing to help out.

Ain't that the truth, on both counts!

Seriously, though, I think you will get better support in SA if you go with Joomla. Just mho!

B

 

[Jacques]

drupal fail:
http://www.seacomblog.com/forum-topic/seacoms-anchor-tenants
(the "forum" section of the Seacom bog)

Lower down on that page someone complains:

Is this supposed to be a forum?
Submitted by The Grim Reaper on Wed, 2009/07/22 - 12:06.

Can Seacom not afford a licence for VBulletin?
This "forum" sucks! It is more like a blog !!

and Team Seacom's reply:

Submitted by Team Seacom on Wed, 2009/07/22 - 12:55.

@GrimReaper: The Seacom Blog is first and foremost a blog and is intended to engage you, the consumer, around discussions to which you can constructively contribute. We have employed Brandsh Media as our social media agency, and they in turn make use of Drupal, an open source platform, for all their platform develoment. Hence the cost implications are simply not an issue, but rather it is the development tool of choice of our service provider.

 

[midrange]

Drupal's forum module is pretty crap, but overall it's a far better CMS than Joomla. The former is geared more towards developers, and the latter designers.