Written on November 24, 2008 at 8:00 am by Chase Sagum

Most Notable Websites Powered by Drupal – Part 1

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48 responses to " Most Notable Websites Powered by Drupal – Part 1"

1. Justin Ellison on November 24, 2008:

   I’m missing something – why do you talk up Drupal, yet use Wordpress yourself? Myself, I just switched to Drupal from Wordpress. Are you planning on switching???

   Justin

2. Drupal Theme Garden on November 25, 2008:

   … and http://drupal.org

3. Katherine Druckman on November 25, 2008:

   We took you down? SO sorry about that! Yikes!

   Thanks for the mention. We at Linux Journal LOVE Drupal. We are big WordPress fans too, but find that Drupal fits the bill quite nicely for our online edition.

   Best,

   Katherine Druckman
   Webmistress, LinuxJournal.com

4. Drupalbased on November 26, 2008:

   2 out 6 are poor choices and there are a lot more larger and nicer looking sites using drupal..

   Still gave it the thumbs up simply because it’s drupal

5. ethen on November 27, 2008:

   These sites are all team centric – let’s see some made by one person? I don’t think one person could actually build a drupal site that looks high end.

   This just shows that Drupal works well for corporate enviroments. That’s a small niche in comparison to the mass market. Let’s see a major social networking site that uses Drupal.

   How many of these websites actually use unique Drupal powered functionality? I bet all could be build with a CMS like Joomla.

   Drupal and other open source projects need to better involve front end designers and user interface experts. It appears all the good designers prefer Joomla and Wordpress. I laughed at The Open Source Initiative website.

6. vsc on December 2, 2008:

   >>Let’s see a major social networking site that uses Drupal.
   How about fastcompany.com?

   Or, would that be a ‘corporate environment’ site?

   I can’t think of too many large and successful social networking sites that were ‘made by one person’.

   I don’t mean to criticise you, but you do seem to be contradicting yourself.

   As for ‘unique Drupal powered functionality’ that these sites are using, you only have to visit the case study section to learn about them: http://drupal.org/cases

7. ethen on December 3, 2008:

   What I’m meaning is that drupal fits a niche best suited for corporate environments that have money and both developers and designers on hand. Drupal is not an “out of the box, turnkey ” solution that one person could fully implement professionally, in my opinion. You need a developer AND a designer to implement a decent Drupal site. Few people can do both.

   In reference to major social networks, most are using custom solutions. I think many enterprise level sites tend to go with custom code over other CMS’s.

   Drupal works well for corporate environments – the site you mention may be a corporate website, but these days all major websites are utilizing some degree of social community. Drupal works well for this market. But this is really a small market in comparison to the noob market of resource limited operations.

8. vsc on December 3, 2008:

   @ethen: Thanks, I understand you better now.

   However, your perception that drupal isn’t a right fit for the noob market (and it’s a perception shared by quite a few) is largely a function of lack of documentation that can walk a noob type person through building sites with drupal. Actually, it would be incorrect to say ‘lack of documentation’. There are literally thousands of handbook pages on http://www.drupal.org/handbooks, but it can be a pain to wade through.

   More pertinently, nearly a dozen books on drupal have been published in the last 18 months by Packt Publishing, Apress and, just recently, O’reilly. Most of these books target the beginner and intermediate drupal users. With these books on one’s shelves, it is possible to gain a very high level of drupal expertise within a couple of months.

   A significant new book is O’reilly’s ‘Using Drupal’, which is written by a team of drupal experts from Lullabot.com, the guys who have built many top sites including MTV-UK’s community platform.

   Here’s an early review of the book:
   http://www.topnotchthemes.com/blog/081203/using-drupal-book-review

9. Bob on January 12, 2009:

   I actually use wordpress for my real estate blog and love it. Is there a significant difference?

10. Rize on January 17, 2009:

    2 out 6 are poor choices and there
    Rize are a lot more larger and nicer looking sites using drupal..

    Still gave it the thumbs up simply because it’s drupal

11. Work At Home To Make Money on January 18, 2009:

    Personally, i love Wordpress with all the plugins you can have put in place. Drupal alright though.

12. Jeffrey Frenandez on January 18, 2009:

    drupal fits a niche best suited for corporate environments that have money and both developers and designers on hand! I can’t think of too many large and successful social networking sites that were ‘made by one person’

    nice blog

    Regards
    Jeffrey

    http://doctors-jobs.net

13. Gwendolyn Choo on January 18, 2009:

    I’m missing something – why do you talk up Drupal, yet use Wordpress yourself? Myself, I just switched to Drupal from Wordpress. Are you planning on switching???

    nice blog

    Regards
    Gwen

    http://medical-employment-australia.com

14. 100businesscards on January 23, 2009:

    Drupal does have a rather quick pace of development. To keep up on the edge of development it has to be fairly quick. New releases typically only come out every 9 months or so. This leaves time to update. And, the previous version of drupal is still supported (e.g., both drupal 4.7 and 5 are supported right now). So a drupal version is supported, typically, for a year and a half.

15. zaarco on January 28, 2009:

    What is the diiference between drupal and wordpress ?

    I mean functionnality.

16. Gordon on January 29, 2009:

    Hi

    I tried drupal but it was too confusing for me. Maybe because I was totally used to wordpress, but I think wordpress is a better platform for sure.

    But I did like drupal, I feel if I didn’t know wordpress so well I would like drupal myself

17. Build A Niche Store Today on February 6, 2009:

    That’s awesome, I’ll have to check that out. I’ve mainly been focusing on WordPress, may be time to expand out.

18. James on February 10, 2009:

    Has anyone seen any software that will auitomatically post to drupel? If you do let me know.

19. electronics store on February 11, 2009:

    really nice

20. Social networking on February 11, 2009:

    I personally used all the three.

    I reason why end users like joomla is the availability of huge number of free modules and extensions. Joomla has hte largest such opensource community on the internet today. The abilty to get a full fledged joomal website running in 2 days. I created a social netowrking site using joomla in 3 days. It is that easy to create website.

    Drupal is awesome too, My first ever website was a drupal powered website, it used post gres way back when most people didnt know what it was, drupals only problem is the lack of availability of themes and modules like joomla. Their backend is so cool and if drupal makes a little bit more effect in getting their modules listes as in joomla.org it would be easier and you will see more users.

21. kiran on February 13, 2009:

    Nice collection…

22. Mike blaster on February 17, 2009:

    I have to stick with wordpress. Its easy to use and I have no time to go through another learning curve.

23. video Promotion on February 20, 2009:

    People tell me that wordpresss is unstable. To those people I tell you… Use it or lose it. Wordpress rocks, open source, lots of plugins for everything you need. Great cms plateform but for the serious users try joomla or drupal or even krang.

24. Jack M. Zufelt- Mentor To Millions on February 27, 2009:

    I have heard a lot about Ubuntu and here you too have shared this great info. I have been comfortable working on wordpress and now I would also like to give Ubuntu a shot.

25. Majondra on March 1, 2009:

    Every time i come here I am not dissapointed, nice post

26. Bonzai on March 3, 2009:

    Interasting…
    Wordpress best for me….

27. theonlin on March 3, 2009:

    There are some really amazing sites on Drupal.. Firefox, UN, Yahoo research, Warner Brothers, Fox, Amnesty International.. they all use Drupal.

28. Social Networking Software on March 12, 2009:

    I’m forwarding this link to our team of social network web designers. Some really great inspiration here. Great finds!

    Cheers.
    Jony Mac a Social Networking Software Developer

29. Social Media Marketing on March 12, 2009:

    Great information ! I’m going to share it with our clients. Great examples !

    Thanks,
    Rachel McInerney

30. Dafydd on March 16, 2009:

    I really liked the way they came off

31. Cliff Posey on March 17, 2009:

    I use wordperss online because I am not sure how to set up the hosting and other aspects of things when setting up hosting my own wordpress blog

32. Cliff Posey on March 17, 2009:

    I looked also into drupal but it was too hard for me. Wordpress and blogger are better

33. Cliff Posey on March 17, 2009:

    I looked also into drupal but it was too hard for me. Wordpress and blogger are better

34. Jim Wilson Ministries on March 20, 2009:

    Drupal can be kind of confusing but once you get it figured out has proven to be quite a great tool. I still use Wordpress and blogger at times also. May God continue to bless you as you continue to provide quality and informative substance to your posts. God Bless – Rev. Jim Wilson

35. Web Site Hosting on March 25, 2009:

    Wordpress is so easy to use and so easy to enhance. I cannot imagine why anyone would use anything else.

36. big ticket to wealth on March 25, 2009:

    Totally agree 100% Wordpress is definitely better…

37. making money internet on March 27, 2009:

    Nice post! Thumbs up.

38. Meeting rooms on March 30, 2009:

    Always a joy to read your posts. keep it coming.

39. Robin on June 2, 2009:

    Very nice article but for most of us (beginners) Wordpress is so easy to use for blogging. Myself though I am using squidoo more and more to drive traffic to my blogs and other websites that I sell products from.

40. Love poems & Love Quotes on July 4, 2009:

    I like spreadfirefox.com. The design of the blog is really awesome. I’m still surprise that Drupal powers it.

    Best Regards,
    Jermaine

41. Grace on August 5, 2009:

    Yes. Although Wordpress seems to mainstream with regular bloggers, I continue to hear so much great press about Drupal!

42. psp games reviews on August 17, 2009:

    i heard about drupal blogs..im currently using wp..is drupal blogs are seo friendly ? google like these type of blogs ??

43. Buy Templates on August 18, 2009:

    Wordpress really rocks! The tool is very friendly especially to those who just started blogging. It is not that complicated not like the other CMS formats.

44. Classifieds free ad posting on August 19, 2009:

    Wordpress is so easy to use and so easy to enhance. I cannot imagine why anyone would use anything else.

45. Elyot on August 22, 2009:

    Wordpress is a great tool for blogging. But the drupal is come up with news posting, blog and forum. My opinion is Drupal is a best CMS. Wordpress is a best blogging tool

46. hali yikama on September 1, 2009:

    very good thank you

47. Brody on November 18, 2009:

    Keep working like you have and this site will grow like mad, great job!

48. alaçat? oteller on December 27, 2009:

    2 out 6 are poor choices and there are a lot more larger and nicer looking sites using drupal..

    Still gave it the thumbs up simply because it’s drupal