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Been kicking the tires a bit here with Drupal Commerce so far pretty impressed with what I’m seeing. The kickstarter is a good way to get up and going http://drupal.org/project/commerce_kickstart. Looking at the line items functionality of Commerce and Randy Fay has some great video showing the power that you can get with these at the commerce guys website .

There are a lot of possibilities with these I would like to see what it would take to build a type of Kickstarter clone. There is a screen cast on the Drupal Dojo showing how to do this but it doesn’t look like it is using the Drupal Commerce functionality.

I am in the process of creating a custom theme in word press for a client. I was going to use Drupal since that is what I have been using for a bit. But Drupal just seemed overkill for this simple business site. It was a lot easier to theme than I thought it would be but this is probably because of the experience I have had in learning to theme Drupal. Side note:
If you are doing any sort of web design and don’t have firefox with firebug you are missing out.

But you may be wondering why I choose WordPress over Drupal so as follow are my top 3 reasons:

1. Didn’t see clients site ever expanding into something more that they would need the enhancements that drupal can offer.
2. Administrative interface in word press is much more polished than Drupal’s. This also makes sense in that WordPress has concentrated on one thing and been able to focus more energy on the interface (my opinion I have no facts or articles to back this up). Drupal is focused on building A Content Management System. Which is a whole different beast than blogging software.
3. I wanted to learn more about WordPress and its capabilities. This was a good project to do that with. I learned alot and was pleasantry surprised by the versatility that WordPress offers.