Not at all - there are some great pic and movie extensions. Even streaming movies. Have a look at XE Media's extensions, they are just NICE!

Xe-Gallery for photos

Xe-VideoGalV1 for videos

and they have one for streams and music

http://www.xe-media.ch/software/

Extensions and bridges will greatly increase what you can do with the CMSes. I use Drupal with a Gallery 2 bridge on my personal site for media.

I am a Drupal and Joomla user - my personal preference is Drupal, but it's not the same kettle of fish. Each has their own powers:

Joomla has a good extensions base, and has great point-and-click ease
Drupal, simply because it doesn't have all the bells-and-whistles, has an API that is much less complicated, so making it into a unique, fully-featured CMS is much much easier.

I use Joomla when I just want to get a site up and content loaded. 5 use Drupal, when a site is worth developing and unleashing its full potential.

If you're not happy getting into the code, then Joomla is for you. If you want to expand and customise a site the way you want, then it's got to be Drupal.

Either way, both have stupid names.

Can I ask, what do you get out of Gallery2 bridge, that you don't get out of the Image/Folksonomy/Album module setup??

I'm currently developing a gallery site, and I can't see what I would gain by going the mammoth Gallery2 route... plus skinning it is a nightmare.

It is a nightmare, I agree. But I'm a perfectionist. There are a few things in particular that draw me to Gallery:
- I had a custom module developed (will be releasing to the public once I clean it up a little more) to do automatic webcam archiving
- Bells and whistles such as slideshows, configurable permissions, ratings, commenting, automatic watermarking, multiple ways to add images (including my mobile gallery posted right from my PocketPC)
- It also deals well with additional media formats... automatically thumbnails my videos, ID3 tags audio files, etc.
- You can use the shopping cart as an automatic zip file creator... visitors can add any photos/albums to their "cart" and then download the whole thing as a zip file

Basically I've just grown to appreciate the power and flexibility. I can do things like temporarily hide something, allow guests to only view small versions of images, complex sorting, and generally have very fine control over the media.

Gallery 2.2 is going to have flickr-style tagging support and it's expected that taxonomy tagging of Gallery items will be enabled shortly thereafter for Drupal.

Thanks...Interesting

dunno son...

redaxo but its german, mayne.

I have looked at joomla and am considering using it but I have a question....it appears that it produces dynamic content and since I have a good google PR and such is this going to be a problem for google?

They have SEO optimized plugins for joomla -- you need to know how to use .htaccess but I used it on a recent joomla site I built and the SEO friendly URLs it creates dynamically are great.

If you haven't used it before, joomla can be a bitch to comprehend.

But once you have it down, it makes turning sites out pretty darn easy.

Thanks man I may give it a shot

The best FURL extension is OpenSEF
It's not listed in the extensions part of Joomla.org tho, because the author of OpenSEF, OpenWiki, and OpenWP doesn't agree with the ratings system :disgust

That all seems logical - I'll give it a go. Thanks

The best search engine friendly url component for Joomla is JoomSEF. You don't even have to touch a htaccess file. It's the one I use.