I am making a community for web-comic artist who will be able to sync their existing website to this site.
However, I am in debate for what CMS I should use: Drupal or WordPress.
I have heard great things about Drupal, where it is really aimed for Social Networking. I actually got to play a little bit in the back end of Drupal and it seemed quite complicated to me, but I am not going to give up to fully understand how Drupal works.
As for WordPress, I am very familiar with the Framework. I have the ability to extend it to do what I want, but I am hesitating because I think the framework is not built for communities (I think it may slow down in the future).
I also have a unrelated question as well: Should I go with a Python CMS?
I heard very great things about Python and how much better it is compare to PHP.
Your advice is appreciated.
Difficult decision. Normally I would say ‘definitely Drupal’ without hesitation, as Drupal was build as a System for community sites from the beginning, whereas WordPress still shows its heritage as a blogging solution, at least that’s what I hear quite often. But then I’m working with Drupal all the time recently and haven’t had a closer look at WordPress for quite a while.
That said, Drupal has grown into a pretty complex system over the years, so there is quite a learning curve for newcomers. Given that you are already familiar with WordPress, it might be more efficient for you to go with that, provided it can do all that you need.
So I would recommend Drupal, but you should probably get some opinions from people experienced with WordPress concerning the possibility to turn it into a community site first.
As for the Python vs. PHP CMS question, I’d say that the quality of a CMS is a function of the ability of its developers, the maturity of the system, the surrounding ‘ecosystem’, etc. and not of the particular language used to build it. (And discussions about the quality of one established language vs. another? Well – let’s just not go there 😉