My Drupal experience is a mixed up of good and bad things. The good things, Drupal has a clean coding and depending on the theme to be used, it could easily pass XHTML 1.1 validation. The basic editor has almost all features that a simple website need.

Drupal is very easy to learn. Easy to configure. I actually decided to use it and join its community. My disappointment started when I want to share some modules I want to create. The instruction was to request for a CVS account and provide for your proposed projects. That was wrong, as the maintener of Drupal CVS screens for duplicate modules. The modules I was thinking was said to have been a duplicate idea. In short, I was denied. That was fine since, I can create a module just for my own use.

This disappointment became worst when the two(2) site which I used Drupal do not allow me to login using Windows XP SP2 on either IE7 or Firefox 2. The catch however was, using the same platform, I could easily log into my Drupal.org account. Why? I don't know. There are almost 200 threads on this topic in the Drupal forum and nothing help me solve my problem. Why? I don't know.

In one of my websites, I deleted Drupal totally. I just replaced it with a Wordpress which serves the purpose. On the other website, I am now currently creating my own customized script for it. I am hoping that I will be able to finish it before the end of the year for its initial pre-alpha version.

Drupal may be good as others say, but for my case, I may still be thinking twice before using Drupal again.

Other CMSs which I am currently using are E107 (XHTML 1.1 Compliant), Dragonfly CMS (has built-in forum and image galleries - and very secure), Post Nuke (customized modules are very easy to code). I use Mambo in Limboforge and I don't like to use Joomla as it is bloated with options which occupies web space without being used by an ordinary website. Likewise, to use a good component, you need to pay a hefty price to commercial coders.