Being somewhat a Drupal aficionado recently I dove into WordPress specifically on the request of a student of the Marbella Design Academy. The first result of this wordpress discovery is this blog, the second was a port from Typepad to WordPress of a clients blog www.andaluciadiary.com with the help of a programmer friend www.williameaton.co.uk and this wonderful tutorial from http://foliovision.com/2008/11/17/typepad-to-wordpress. Almost simultaneously I began work on a business directory for inclusion in a Joomla site, so all in all recently I got a taste of all of the top cms’s at once!
So what to say about the differences between these content management systems and blogging softwares after so much dispute between the users of each!
Firstly Drupal, I love it and trust it, its expandable and limitless, its got a steep learning curve but once you are there you can create anything, literally anything! WordPress really impressed me, straight out of the box with a backend interface thats intuitive its a great blogging tool and with all the beautiful themes being created would be a neat alternative to drupal for a small basic site with content management capabilities. Typepad, forget it! Complete waste of time to pay monthly for something that requires hours of time and money for you when you want to move over to something else and Joomla hhhm, bit mixed on that. Joomla always came up as a drupal rival when I was originally researching which content management system to choose as a company product whilst head of web design at Andalucia Web Solutions. The fact is it simply just does not rival drupal on any level, it feels clink clunk and its seo capability out of the box is more than poor, I mean headings that are’nt automatically Heading 1′s, please!!! Effects and theme wise Joomla is plentiful and its quick to get soemthing off the ground but for serious web work its a no. The only thing that has saved me from hating it eternally is this wonderful plugin from Sobi2, http://www.sigsiu.net/sobi2.html.
This plugin functioning as a CCK construction kit is simply marvellous, time saving and effective if you want to solely create a business directory and you are more designer than programmer I recommend using Joomla on the strength of this alone. However if I had to choose I’m afraid its still Drupal all the way even on the first date 
