I’m currently running a WordPress install for Miao’s website and Drupal for my own. WordPress is incredibly easy to use and manage, and looks good right out of the box. I had it all configured and updated with Miao’s old blog content, comments and all within a few hours. The module installation for WordPress is the height of simplicity. There’s a directory within the admin interface of your website. You select the module you want to install, enter your ftp details and it automatically uploads, extracts and installs it (with the correct permissions) for you. I’ve installed modules that do SEO configuration so that it can be seen nicely by big search companies, Sitemap configuration to notify search engines when content changes, Google Analytics to track how many people visit, and social network integration to allow cross authentication with Facebook and Twitter for people to leave comments.

It’s an entirely different story when you compare this with Drupal, one which I’m still grappling with at the moment. The module installation isn’t much more complicated, but you have to manually upload and extract the compressed files yourself. The out of the box installation doesn’t come with as many tools automatically installed and there’s no comment import modules that I’ve seen for blogger and other big blog hosting sites. Drupal is very obviously very powerful, but it’s got quite a sharp learning curve.Today I’ve been tidying up the HTML codes in my blogger blog, so that my entries get imported more nicely into Drupal.