Alright I must admit, I am jumping on the Drupal bandwagon (if there is such a thing). I just have to admit that it is so much better than Joomla (the other CMS heavyweight at the current time). And I mean so much better. My top ten reasons to use Drupal really do stem from my few frustrations of Joomla and how Drupal has solved those frustrations for me. This is nothing to harsh against Joomla! I think it’s a wonderful open source project that I hope continues on. I would love to find reasons to use Joomla more often. There are just some areas that they have need to improve. Anyways, here are my ten reasons to use Drupal: SEO Friendly URL’s – This is a pain in the butt with Joomla! It’s automatically built in with Drupal and very very easy to use. Easy To Use Admin Interface [...]

“I need a simple shopping cart” is a simple yet complicated demand that I hear often from many of my clients. “Simple, just need to be able to sell a couple of products on my website.” If only they knew how difficult such a “simple” thing can be. What to do? Setup Zencart? OS Commerce? Magento? Just build my own from scratch? Having just a simple shopping cart can be quite the task for a developer when a business has such a demand, yet such a small budget. I have been battling this dilemma for over 5 years now. A good place to start is with a content management system, then find a way for a small shopping cart plugin to integrate into it. That way it’s not a big cart system like Zencart, and it’s still content manageable unlike the custom one you might be considering building. But two [...]