Hi
The council I work for is interested in moving to an open source cms for our website. We recently set up a small scale intranet using Joomla, and we love how user friendly the editor is. However, I have some concerns on its suitability for our much larger scale public website and have started looking at Drupal. What I need to know is that with the right developer and budget, if anything is possible with Drupal, or if there are currently any major restrictions we might achieve with a proprietary system (or alternative open source) that Drupal just can't offer.
The main requirments we have:
- Navigation/categorisation. This seems quite set/restrictive in Joomla and I've read that Drupal is more flexible. We would need to be able to link pages from more than one navigation location.
- Multi and subsites. We would ideally share content between intranet and internet. We may also need to set up separate sites with different designs. Again I'm not sure if Joomla is capable of this, but understand Drupal is geared up out of the box for multisites.
- Workflows, Editor permissions and groups. We need to be able to save both new pages and edits to existing pages in draft until an administrator can aprove and publish. Ideally the system would flag this up in the system. We also want to restrict editorial rights to pages by groups.