Drupal: I'm pretty sure it doesn't rhyme with RuPaul.

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I've been hacking away at this for a while now and it's rather difficult sometimes to get things exactly how you want them. I know for certain it will be much easier to maintain once it's set up, and with a ton more functionality to boot. My idea is to make it easy for anyone to add content. It shouldn't be a irritating and sometimes daunting task every single time a couple things need to be changed around. This is how it was in the past. Luckily it's not 1997, and we shouldn't to only use tools from 1997. Enter Drupal.

Drupal is a CMS, Content Management System. There's a handful of free and good ones on the market today. The idea is that to add some content or change a couple things, all you should need to do is plop the information into a form. Every post is a separate node. But the CMS takes care of putting some of those nodes together and organizing them intelligently. The automatic RSS feeds are one of the coolest things and the forums could prove to be useful, but I'm not sure if our group will actually use them. I'm sure between the time I've put in evaluating Joomla and the time I've spent with Drupal is over a hundred hours easy. And I've got so little to show for it so far... it gets frustrating telling people the new website is just around the corner. And then the doubt sets in. Is Drupal the right path? Should I use Joomla instead? Or should we skip it altogether and stay with static HTML. I just hope people like it in the end and it gets used. Time will tell. It's starting to come together.