I have almost finished the development of my first Drupal site, http://10000Thoughts.com - Harness the Power of Thought
I am now in the testing phase so if anyone wants to take a quick look and provide feedback I would really appreciate it. (I know I have some stylesheet things to fix.)
Theme: Modified BlueMarine
Modules: Userpoints, CCK, Favorite, LoginDestination, LoginMenu, PrivateMessage, Legal, Tagadelic, Fivestar
First I want to say thanks to Drupal. This framework is really amazing. I am new to PHP although I do work as a java programmer in my day job, mostly messaging systems, so I am and not experience in front end web apps. Anyway, Drupal makes things very easy.
I realized I am in a unique situation to tell about my experience. I have built 2 sites in the last 6 months, one with Joomla and one with Drupal.
The first site I did was a small community site for daughters pre-school. I did not know about Drupal when I started and was looking for something easy. I found Joomla because people at work had used mambo and led me that way.
The second site was 10000Thoughts.com that I helped build for my brother. I knew up front I would need to be able to customize and new Joomla would not be adequate. Luckily I stumbled onto Drupal.