Our platform
We've had a couple of people ask what technologies we're using to build Lacrosse Gear Review. We're building with Drupal.
We conducted a brief feature based evaluation of the three main open source CMS's, Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal.
Our main requirements were:
- stable / mature
- feature rich
- easily extensible
- broad/active community
- future proof
- just makes it easier to review lacrosse gear
We really liked Wordpress, but felt its ties to the blogging platform wasn't in-line with our direction. The lack of plug-in frameworks was also a bit of a concern. We'd outgrow Wordpress pretty quickly.
Joomla surprised us, but fell away in two areas. The first was a lack of developers, and the second was that its uptake wasn't as high as Drupal or Wordpress. We need something that won't fall by the wayside and has large community involvement.
But in the end we chose Drupal. We were really impressed by its capabilities and extensibility. With many frameworks, a very active community and a broad feature set, Drupal could meet our immediate needs and grow with us.
Our non-tangible requirement "makes it easier to review lacrosse gear" was removed early. All CMS's performed well when we posted our lacrosse gear reviews.