It took me five hours to go from sketching the site on paper, protoyping the design in HTML, and setting up WordPress with the custom theme. The site was designed “live.” Developing it locally and then replicating the work in the server would take more time—which I didn’t have.

I chose WordPress for Tugkaran even if I use Drupal for many of my sites for 5 reasons:

1. I am the only person updating the site. I write all the copy and post all the articles myself. If somebody else from the team writes something, I still need to go over it before the article gets published. Using Drupal for the site would be like using a pneumatic power drill when all I needed was to tighten a screw on a picture frame.

2. I find it easier to take control over the behavior of a WordPress-driven site than one run by Drupal.

3. I work faster with WordPress than with Drupal.

4. I find it easier to design a WordPress theme than a Drupal template.

The blocks module of Drupal makes it easy to add snippets of content into your site and customize not only their display but specify on which nodes or node types they will appear in.

With WordPress, I can do that while lightening the load on the server by directly editing the .php template files to do away with database queries for displaying blocks of content. I’m sure there’s a way to do this in Drupal that I haven’t learned just yet.

5. It’s easier to update WordPress to the latest release. I don’t want to spend a lot of time in the upgrade process for a site that I will be rarely updating.

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Cheryl Hurst - Themer/Designer. WordPress is a blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL.