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Everyone wants to know why choose Drupal, and ? A quick Web search will find endless comparisons and reviews. Here is the short story: Drupal is the most flexible and capable. It has a steeper learning curve, but once you learn your way around Drupal you're set for the long term and can build everything from simple personal blogs to giant enterprise sites, and build them the way you want. WordPress is super-nice and you can literally have a new site up and running in five minutes. (There are two WordPresses: the WordPress software that you install on your own server, and , the giant hosted WordPress blogging site.) Joomla is also easy to get up and running. For me, both WordPress and Joomla are harder to customize and extend, while Drupal allows endless flexibility.

It will probably take more than five minutes to set up our shiny new Drupal site, but not much more, because I will spell out those all-important first steps that are so often glossed over.