Drupal_7_Articles_Joomla.wmv

Prior to Drupal 7, content writers often had to decide between a "Page" and a "Story" content type. Ok, it's not a blog or a forum post or an image... but which is it, Page or Story? I generally differentiated them by making the Page like a standard HTML page, clean, and the Story more like a blog post, with author metadata... so which on should I use?

Drupal 7 has simplified the decision by intorducing a new default content type: the "Article" which should be familiar to Joomla users as the default post type in that CMS.

Makes sense. Drupal 7 and Drupal Gardens will probably blow Joomla out of the water, so might as well make it comfortable for Joomlaists to transition.

During an Acquia webinar about Drupal 7, I asked if "Article" was specifically chosen as the default content type to make Drupal more friendly for Joomla users. Moderator Lynne Capozzi tried to brush it off as "rhetorical" but Drupal creator and curator Dries Buytaert answered that much thought had been given to it and "Article" was chosen a the best option.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Drupal
• Drupal 7
• Joomla
• Dries Buytaert
• Acquia