From what I've heard, Joomla is supposed to be easier to use than Drupal, but less powerful. So when I started using Joomla I expected it to be a simpler, prettier version of Drupal. I'm finding that they are much different from each other than I first expected.
At first I liked Joomla's more graphically-intense user interface but am starting to dislike it quite a bit because of how much clicking you have to do to accomplish things. Also, I have to keep two separate windows open to see the administration and the results, because they are completely separated from each other.
I think Joomla has it's act together more as far as templates and monetizing the work people do. They have a lot of templates licensed with Create Commons, and a lot of sites for buying templates, getting free templates, free templates with upgrades, etc. As a result, they have more numerous, higher quality templates than Drupal. I think with Drupal people generally always expect to spend a good amount of time doing theme customization.
Some things that bother me about Joomla:
- Joomla's documentation is powered by MediaWiki, a different CMS!
- Their own site is mostly *.html pages - I must be missing something about how their CMS works (it's so different than Drupal) or else they just really don't like using their own CMS. Or else I don't know how to use it properly for the site I'm working on.
- A site I recently got hired to help with -my first Joomla site- just got hacked twice (once before I started, and just happened again).
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