[drupal-docs] Drupal vs Mambo

[Morbus Iff]

> Some brief words to throw into the pot
> 
> "Drupal is a flexible Content Management System built around social  
> software and community management principles. It has a modular  approach 
> to features and functionality, allowing users to build  everything from 
> traditional corporate websites to large multi-user  systems that include 
> social networking tools. Drupal's powerful  categorization system and 
> extensible content system allows it to  support many different data 
> models and media types. Full support for  search engine friendly content 
> and Web 2.0 features like user  interactivity and RSS mean that Drupal 
> is an excellent choice for  building today's leading edge websites."

In my opinion, far too wordy. Take a look at my description for LibDB:

  LibDB allows you to smartly and easily catalog your movies, books,
  magazines, comics, etc. into your own computerized "personal library".
  It is a free, open sourced, library and asset management system based
  on and inspired by the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic
  Records (pdf), triples from the semantic web, and "the end-user
  doesn't, and shouldn't, need to know this stuff".

It goes "down the rabbit hole" as opposed to being already there: it 
starts out with an innocent "anyone can understand" sentence, then throws 
in some middle ground tech buzzwords, and finally descends into the real 
Lib Tech aspects that only libraries would understand. More importantly, 
however, it concludes with innocence, soothing the reader into realizing 
that they shouldn't worry about the stuff they just didn't understand.

Randomly, my first very basic re-edit of the above (and, as good as it can 
get with only about ten minutes of thoughts whilst I'm distracted):

  Drupal is a content management system flexible enough to easily
  create simple sites, forums, or blogs, on through middle-ground
  creations consisting of categorized content, hierarchal forums,
  and aggregated data, all the way up to full-fledged community
  sites with threaded comments, multiple levels of access control,
  complex taxonomy systems, customizable profiles, and more.

  Used internally by Yahoo! and proudly by such sites as
  $1, $2, $3, Drupal is an excellent and well-supported choice
  for building sites that take advantage of tried-and-true
  web technology, while also offering the latest and greatest
  innovations made daily by the web building elite.

Even with that, there's still lots wrong with it - the first paragraph is 
actually only one sentence, the second paragraph uses "internally" and 
"proudly" weirdly, the final sentence yells out "we are cool!" which is 
never a good sign, and blah blah blah. I think its less buzzwordy though.

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