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eZ publish vs. Drupal

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Yudi Setiawan

Monday 10 December 2007 2:16:34 am

Dear all ,

Sorry that just now I'm able to reply post a message.

@Anne : I agree with you. A single download delivers a robust system ready to be used out-of-the-box.

@Gaetano : Thanks for the suggestion. Haven't tried it yet, but definitely will test it later on.

@Xavier : Thanks for the info.

All of your comment really encouraged & helped me in preparing my presentation to my IS Director about 2 weeks ago.
And then my boss asked me to prepare a demo to be presented to the executive team.
So in just 1 week, we had to come up with a demo site using eZ Publish.

Before that I experimented about 1 month with the eZ Publish system.
(Someone said in another forum, that the learning curve is quite vertical - I tend to agree)
And for a short while I also tested Drupal.

Drupal is quite an impressive software and has a very active community.
But then we chose eZ Publish because it has 2 features that we need the most:
1. The ability to use different design for each siteaccess in a manageable way.
This is important, because each of the regional office need to have different design & looks.
And they can have options to select the template they want to use for each region site.
Before eZ Publish, we really had a headache how to solve this issue.
2. Website Interface extension.
This front-end editing capability amazed the executive team.
This extension made it very easy for the user to edit the content on the website.

As for the speed perfomance, installing PHP accelerator really helps.
(We have tested eZ Publish 4.0 and it's even faster! :-) )

Now we have about 3 months time to prepare for the beta version (March 2008).
Have so much to do and learn :-)

I'm thinking to write what I & my team have learnt during developing the demo site using eZ Publish.
To share knowledge (including mistakes) and also discuss some issues.

Thank you.

Anne Onamouse

Monday 10 December 2007 5:28:48 pm

Yudi,

I'm glad you chose eZ, and I expect you and your team will be very valuable members of the community.

If you are going to use the website interface, or other sitestyles, one very nice tool is EditCSS - a Mozilla FireFox plugin that lets you edit CSS in the browser and see the effects on the site, without refreshing the screen. Firebug is another very helpful plugin.

Best wishes,

:)

Fabricio Guerrero

Friday 14 December 2007 12:41:58 am

Just wanted to comment on this.

I pretty much agree with Carlos as I also have a similar experience.. I've been working with ez for a bit over 3 years and just recently started looking into Drupal.. basically i guess it's due to all the hype that is being generated about that CMS everywhere.

eZ wins overall on structure, content handling and the admin interface but Drupal for some reason offers a great simplicity which would be highly appreciated when wanting to create a good website as quickly as possible.

With drupal and thousands of modules available you can easily and quickly get a pretty good site running in no time... and seems to have less complexity than an eZ site.

Never the less I really doubt selling a drupal site to my bigger clients.. I'd stick with eZ for that.

http://www.solobromasychistes.com <<Joomla Site :P
http://www.recipesforhealthyfood.com/ <<Drupal Site :P
http://www.ezforge.com/ <<future ezCommunity, Articles, forums and more...

paul bir

Thursday 20 December 2007 6:32:07 am

Drupal provides a good toolset to help you build your site but site planning is still needed.

http://www.theawristocrat.com/personalized-id-dog-tags.php
http://www.theawristocrat.com/fundraising.php
http://www.martialartspride.com
http://www.martialartspride.com/weapons.html

HM Fireball

Tuesday 30 December 2008 5:15:33 am

Very useful thread!
Thanks to all of you :-)

Jani Tarvainen

Sunday 07 June 2009 10:02:47 pm

Here's another take on the matter:

- http://exove.com/blog/2009/05/27/presentations-from-drupalcamp-finland/
- http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/drupal-vs-ez-publish-vs-wordpress-vs-cms-made-simple-004744.php

In a nutshell: there's a time and place for each product ;)

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http://ezpublish.fi/

Jianjun Hu

Tuesday 16 June 2009 8:55:52 pm

I prefer to eZ Publish.
It is somewhat a pity that the community of eZ Publish is not as active as Drupal's.

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André R.

Wednesday 17 June 2009 1:08:19 am

Any suggestions on that?
There will be some news on the technical sides of the community this summer at the conference. But I think there needs to be a better organization of the community as well, it's not just a technical issue.

Update: http://ez.no/developer/forum/developer/new_community_site_basis_and_ideas

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