I’ve worked on a couple Drupal projects in recent months, after a few years when I worked almost exclusively with Xaraya.
At the outset of the Drupal work, I wrote a one-page reference comparing the file structure of a Drupal theme with that of a Xaraya theme. I revised it today. It might be useful for those who have some experience with one CMS and want to try out the other.
Now that I have a substantial amount of experience with both Drupal and Xaraya, I have no strong preference for one over the other. They’re both very good.
The user interface for Drupal 6 is a bit slicker than the Xaraya interface. The ability to change the order of menu items and data fields with a drag-and-drop AJAX interface is great new feature in Drupal that, for now, Xaraya lacks.
See also this related post.
