Hi Folks
Recently I have had more people asking me for a "Wordpress" site, where more often than not, what they actually mean is a site built on a CMS. Whether it's Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, etc they really don't know the difference. It seems that the name "Wordpress" is starting to encompass the concept of a CMS.
So that obviously starts the conversation of how Drupal is different to Wordpress (my usual answer: "they're similar but different - Drupal is a lot more powerful")
I've also had the conversation with designers and marketing peeps who outsource the web development. They are aware there are different platforms, but don't really know the difference and tend to go with Wordpress 'cos it's one they know. But there are occasions when one platform is more suitable than the other.
My question to you all is: without being too biased towards Drupal, does anyone have a simple list of pro's & con's for Drupal vs Wordpress. A guideline on when you should use A vs B. If not, let's draw something up!
I don't know if it's a South African trend for people to talk about a "Wordpress" site when they mean "CMS", but I think it is up to us to educate people about the difference, so that they start looking specifically for a Drupal site.
I already have one client in mind that I'd like to send a document to, as a nice way to explain the difference, so she can stop telling her clients, in meetings, with me there, that I am the one building their WP site... (cough) it's Drupal!