Initially i launched Ideas2o two weeks back using drupal, custom designed the drupal theme added modules and launched the site online. But to my continuous effort drupal didn’t perform the way i wanted. The load time for the site was way beyond my quality control, the 404 error pages kept on showing with little or no traffic on the site and some how it didn’t run as stable as i predicted. No doubt drupal is a very strong and very powerful system but it has its flaws.
- It loads too many modules thus increasing the load time of the site
- The system is quite complicated and takes too much time to make it perfect.
- Some modules work with some version while other don’t
- Modules in drupal some times conflict with each others like Drivers in Windows
- The system is packed with jquery so prototype and other JavaScript libraries don’t work.
- Image handling in blog is horrible and you have to use modules which requires further time and are not as perfect as you require
- There is no editor in drupal so for that you have to go for another module and it ads further complications.
So after fighting with these complications i had no other option but to close it down and shift back to good old WordPress, and the lesson learned always use a CMS that fits best on your requirements. Drupal is a social network system which is its core functionality and my requirement was to set up a blogging system where i can share knowledge and write on the topic that are interesting and exciting. So for that wordpress is the best solution, its easy, its fast and its reliable.
Next > Re-Design and Improvement on the theme .
