When comparing Drupal vs GoNevis, the Slant community recommends Drupal for most people. In the question“What are the best web content management systems?” Drupal is ranked 2nd while GoNevis is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose Drupal is:
Drupal is stable, with powerful version control and access control methods and can handle large amounts of traffic.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Great for enterprise use
Drupal is stable, with powerful version control and access control methods and can handle large amounts of traffic.
Pro Free and open source
Drupal is free to use and open source.
Pro Active community
Drupal have one of biggest and more active communities across FOSS, maintaining a large and vibrant ecosystem of extensions and installation profiles.
Pro Great templating engine
Twig is a game changer!
Pro Multi-lingual support
Starting with Drupal 8, there's built-in multi-lingual support.
Pro It's easy to transfer config changes from dev to production
Pro Highly customizable
Drupal can be customized to do almost anything. It was built ground up with the intent of using a wide variety of small modules to get the exact result wanted instead of just the most common solutions.
Pro RESTful
Drupal 8 has REST services built in.
Pro Good accessibility
Pro Drupal has full SEO capabilities
(vs Joomla, which lacks SEO capabilities), there is an essential issue for promotion.
Pro Semantic HTML5
Pro Excellent SEO
Drupal was designed from the beginning to follow best practices in regards to SEO.
Pro Responsive front-end and back-end
Drupal 8 follows responsive design philosophy out of the box, both front-end and back-end.
Pro Drupal 8 and higher leverage composer and all of the wonderful PHP packages. Instead of building functionality from scratch, it utilizes existing libraries
Pro Free
Absolutely free for a lifetime. No cost at all.
Pro Advanced open-source dashboard
GoNevis Dash is an open source project/product that you can participate directly to improve, either by submitting code, reporting bugs, reviewing patches, etc...
Pro Themes
Different templates and themes.
Pro Built-in commenting
You don't need to use external commenting widgets on your site, all the comments and discussions happening on the website are stored under your account and can be easily managed and moderated.
Pro Free subdomain
Get a free subdomain registered under gonevis.com.
Pro Follow/Subscription support
People can subscribe and receive notifications on new posts.
Pro Full SSL Support
Using secure connection on all the website's traffic.
Pro Granular permissions engine
You can bring your whole team to each website and give them permissions such as Author, Admin, Owner, etc. and manage your entire website with your team.
Pro Content tagging
To keep content management simple, #tags are available instead of categories.
Pro File manager
With file manager Dolphin, keep all your photos, music, videos, documents, and other files under control.
Pro Built-in search
Pro Custom Google Analytics code
Using user's own Google Analytics code.
Pro Custom domain
Users can connect their own domain to their website. For example, jungle.gonevis.com => jungle.com or even blog.jungle.com. There's no limit on how many custom domains users can set on their website.
Pro Static pages
Websites and blogs can have static pages alongside their index page. Such as About, Contact or even dedicated pages and links to display a page with selected tags or categories.
Pro Disabling Google Analytics code
Users can disable Google Analytics from their website. In that, GoNevis will not put any analytics code on their website.
Pro Built-in SEO
When someone shares content from your website, related information such as images, title, description and other data that will be recognized by social media.
Pro Author Global Profile
Each user on GoNevis.com have a global profile, this will help each publisher to get more coverage.
Pro Author profile
Each writer will have a profile on their blog or website. This will make it easy for visitors to read all the content published by the author.
Pro Embeds
Can embed many different website widgets such as:
- YouYube
- SoundCloud
- Vimeo
- GitHub gists
- Pastebin
- ....
Pro Guest Subscriber
Can follow a blog without having to create an account on GoNevis.
https://blog.gonevis.com/guest-commenting-and-subscribing-without-gonevis-account/
Pro Guest Commenting
Ability to Comment on blogs without having to create any account.
It's possible to subscribe to further notification of comment section to be notified when there's a reply form the author or other commenters.
https://blog.gonevis.com/guest-commenting-and-subscribing-without-gonevis-account/
Pro Circles & Group Publishing
Circles allow you to share the content exclusively only for a group of selected people.
Sometimes you may want to make a post or an article only available to a group of people, like your Friends or Family members or even your coworkers.
Pro Monetization
Can user Google AdSense for monetization.
Just add your Google AdSense code, no custom tag is required.
Pro Email & Live Chat Support
Direct Live Chat and Email Support regardless of the being Free or Paid user.
Pro White Label
You can remove GoNevis footer link.
Cons
Con Steep learning curve
Drupal is not easy to get into and out of the box doesn't offer much. To get Drupal doing what you want it to, modules are required. To get modules, an understanding of how Drupal works is required. And that takes time.
Con High resource consumption
A more complex Dupal installation can easily exhaust 256 MB of RAM with only one or two visitors.
Con Documentation is a joke
With currently 3 different version of drupal in active use, and at that constantly changing capibilities within 2 of those, it means that when you look for documentation is if often for a different version that you are running and in addition is not at all easy to consume. Often the info you need is in comment #100 of a thread.
Con Lacks good free modules and themes
Most good third-party modules and themes are costly.
