Review of Buzzr, A Drupal Website Builder

Posted August 9, 2010 – 6:03 pm in: Uncategorized

Buzzr is a new hosted website building platform based on Drupal, a popular open source content management system (CMS).

Buzzr aims to make it much easier to build websites in Drupal by creating a user-friendly front end for the Drupal CMS. In a sense, Buzzr is a sort of WordPress-for-Drupal.

However, while WordPress is primarily designed to build blog-based websites, Drupal is fundamentally a more powerful and versatile website development platform that can be used to make virtually any kind of website. However, with this richness comes complexity that puts Drupal out of reach for many people.

Buzzr is trying to capture some of the superior functionality of Drupal while improving the interface to make it accessible to a much wider range of people. I think they have been largely successful in doing so.

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Drupal: comparison of ‘related content’ modules

Posted February 12, 2010 – 11:42 am in: Uncategorized

I’ve been using two ‘related content’ modules on my Drupal websites for a while: Similar Entires module and Node Recommendation module. Now I want to trim back and use just one.

I came to use these two after trying out a whole bunch of Drupal related content modules. Check here for a good review of the related content choices – there are a lot of them. And here’s another useful, but less comprehensive review of Drupal related content modules. I suspect neither list is actually completely complete.

Most of these modules work off taxonomy terms in various ways. Some are more widely used than others and/or better supported. Interestingly, none seems to have really gained traction as the ‘go to’ module for related content.

I went with Similar Entries because it develops matches off the title and the body content vs. just taxonomy terms. In general, this seems like a good idea to me. As well, at the time I wasn’t using tagging on my sites, so Similar Entries was one of the few modules that would work at all. Now I do use taxonomy, but I’m not a prolific tagger, so I still like the idea of matching off titles and body content.

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