[Nfb-web] Druple vs WordPress

Thu Aug 6 15:54:55 UTC 2015

Thank you. I seem to have opened a pandora's box on this topic. Please do 
not laugh, but how do I acquire Druple? Do I go and buy it or do I download 
it? Is it expensive.
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From: "Littlefield, Tyler via Nfb-web" <nfb-web at nfbnet.org>
To: "NFB Webmaster's List" <nfb-web at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler at tysdomain.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2015 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-web] Druple vs WordPress


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> I'm going to reply to this because I strongly dislike wordpress.
> 1. I work for Acquia; we are one of the leading companies behind
> Drupal; our CTO owns Drupal itself. We have been working on Drupal 8,
> and part of my job is to look at accessibility. Everyone is really
> interested in making things better. Drupal is 100% accessible,
> straight out of the box--no extra themes. I recommend turning off
> overlay for yourself, but everyone has this special weird wordpress
> theme that's for accessibility.
>
> Drupal also has a cool little project called Drush, which basically
> allows you to do really neat stuff through the command line. Anything
> from updating the actual site, to updating user accounts, installing,
> enabling modules, etc.
>
> I have a huge issue with Gabe's third point, because I've seen way
> better drupal sites than he is apparently looking at. I get paid each
> and every day to work on Drupal, so I'm not a hobbyist or volunteer. I
> think there's better ways to push your prefered platform than saying
> everyone who uses X is just a kid in a basement. But while we're on
> this page, I'm going to look at his site:
> The first graphic I see has an alt text that says screenshot with a
> date. Not super accessible. The rest of the pages look about the same,
> just short info with "write or visit" and an address, so there's not a
> lot here to even really go through. Services is just a big list of
> graphics with screenshot alt text.
>
> With all of this aside, I'm going to give you some reasons why I
> myself love drupal.
> 1. Out of the gate, Drupal feels like a website, not a blog. It is
> really easy to set a lot of stuff up that takes a bit more effort in
> wordpress. For example, with the views module, you can have an
> announcements page up in minutes and start publishing announcements.
> 2. You can order and configure blocks to customize exactly how your
> page looks. I had a lot of trouble with this when I tried to use
> Wordpress.
> 3. Drupal itself in 7.x and most notably in 8.x includes a lot of
> really awesome caching stuff (plug, I'm working on some of this). This
> makes your site a lot faster and handles some of what something like
> wp-supercache will do for you.
> 4. I've found that I like both communities, but there's just an extra
> bit of awesome in the Drupal community.
>
> As I said, I'm not a hobbiest and I know there are a lot of web
> developers who are not. I think what you choose as a CMS (or in
> Drupal's case, a CMF) is ultimately up to you; please let me know if
> you have any questions and I'll do what I can to help you.
>
> - From your basement drupal hobbyist,
> Ty
> On 8/6/2015 1:14 AM, Gabe Vega (Personal) via Nfb-web wrote:
>> Hello:
>>
>> I am a wordpress developer who actually makes money and a living
>> off what I do and let me tell you why and what the differences
>> are.
>>
>> 1. I think wordpress provides me as a blind developer visual tools
>> and themes and visual appeal to a site that no other cms offers. 2.
>> I think that wordpress gives me the flexibility, accessibility and
>> the customization via plugins to make my sites as fun, professional
>> or as enterprise as I need them to be. 3. I believe another big
>> difference between wordpress and drupal developers on this list is
>> the wordpress developers on this list actually use wordpress as a
>> job platform, and the drupal developers are just hobby or
>> volinteers who really have no real world experience. Gabe
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Nfb-web
>> [mailto:nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Peter Feysa, III.
>> via Nfb-web Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2015 2:57 PM To: NFB
>> Webmaster <nfb-web at nfbnet.org> Cc: Peter Feysa, III.
>> <pfmcse2001 at att.net> Subject: [Nfb-web] Druple vs WordPress
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>>
>>
>> I have been reading the latest email messages from this list and it
>> seems like you favor Druple over WordPress. Please tell me the pros
>> and cons. I am trying to decide which is best. Alsok, which screen
>> reader works best with the two? NVDA or JAWS?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Peter Michael Feysa, III.
>>
>> Executor Director of Emerald Coast Lighthouse
>>
>> MCSE, MCP, CIW, A+ CompTIA
>>
>> Bachelor of Arts International Studies / Computer Science
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> <http://www.eclfb.org/> Emerald Coast Lighthouse for the Blind,
>> Inc.
>>
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