Joomla! Drupal or other?

Question

I'm about to build a site for a school, needing a forum(regulated), blog(s) static pages and ***ease of use*** for both end users and admin... I've been messing about with Joomla and Drupal over the last couple of days and I think I'm leaning towards Joomla, however web comparisons seem to favour drupal slightly.

In a related sub-question, which is easier to modify the look of?

Answer 1

Joomla, no doubts about that. I tried them both, and Drupal is a lot messier and less flexible.
Joomla is the way to go.
The look is easier to modify in Joomla, and the documentantion / users manual are much better and well written.

Answer 2

Drupal demands extra coding journey and Joomla! demands which you already know a thank you to apply a mouse (particular, i are conscious of it is not precisely like that persons). I choose Drupal by way of fact i hit upon it extra versatile than Joomla!, yet I hate using CMS often as a information superhighway developer.

Answer 3

one more in support of joomla.

if you find any feature lacking look at the site of joomla you are bound to find any suitable plugin.

Answer 4

Unfortunately, none of them: they are designed for "amateurs" who can't write proper code. Same for Miva, Ruby-on-rails, Os-commerce, PhPMyChat etc...
They are "templates", never easy to modify or adapt to your real needs.
Go further in your design, and soon, you will hit the classic wall: "to do this, you need to buy an add-on module"... and the costs start to rise.
Same for any web design editors...
As a final point, surfers "in the know" (and there are a lot of them), will instantly recognise the presence of these templates and conclude (rightly) that:
1. the site has been designed by an amateur,
2. the owner of the site is "cheap" (or has no financial ressources)
3. the site is un-reliable.
Your choice!