Drupal or Joomla for Heb-Eng Site?

[David Suna]

When I used Joomla for mixing Hebrew and English I did not find it very 
easy to develop a single template for both English and Hebrew so I ended 
up doing two templates, one for Hebrew and one for English.  The down 
side to this is that other than the default template you need to assign 
a template to a particular page and it is a maintenance headache to do 
that on an ongoing basis.  The site I did was mainly in Hebrew and they 
weren't adding English pages on a regular basis so we were able to live 
with that.  Since this was when I just started using Joomla I assume 
there is a better way to do this.  I would appreciate any pointers to 
resources for how to develop templates that can be used for both English 
and Hebrew or of how to manage a site in Joomla that is using both 
Hebrew and English on a regular basis.

David Suna
david at davidsconsultants.com



Danny Lieberman wrote:

> I am not qualified to compare Joomla with the current version of 
> Drupal since all of our sites run on Joomla and we took the CMS 
> decision about 4 years ago.
>
> However - I can strongly recommend Joomla 1.5 and up.
>
> We are very light users of Hebrew but - fwiw there is no issue at all 
> with the latest version of Joomla mixing hebrew and english, the SEO 
> friendly URLs work and as long as you are ok with a English language 
> interface - Joomla will everything you want and more.
>
> I second Shachar's comment about the templates - as long as you use 
> standard templates or do minimal customization you will be fine - 
> otherwise you will need help from a more experienced person - and 
> there are tons of them out there.
>
> Examples:
> www.software.co.il <http://www.software.co.il>
> www.opensolutions.co.il <http://www.opensolutions.co.il>
>
> Danny
>
>
> 2009/8/30 Boaz Rymland <boaz at rymland.com <mailto:boaz at rymland.com>>
>
>     Hi,
>
>         * The specified requirements list was much too slim to judge
>           ("how much does a suite for an orphan cost"? Is there such a
>           sentence in English? :-)
>         * This is a hot debate between enthusiasts from both camps.
>         * Here are some links that try to address this issue:
>               o http://www.topnotchthemes.com/blog/090224/drupal-vs-joomla-frank-comparison-ibm-consultant
>               o http://www.alledia.com/blog/general-cms-issues/joomla-and-drupal-which-one-is-right-for-you/
>               o http://mydrupal.com/joomla-versus-drupal
>               o http://drupal.org/node/563294
>               o and there are many many more...
>
>     Boaz.
>
>     Chaim Keren-Tzion wrote:
>>     Which is preferred for building a Hebrew-English site, Drupal or
>>     Joomla?
>>     The management interface can be in English. I will need content
>>     and menus in He and En though.
>>
>>     Thanks in advance.
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