Professionally I rather not create an admin to manage this from scratch as that is a very time consuming and bug prone exercise. I would opt to use Drupal since I know that the basic site could be created with very little programming and at a fraction of time/money to building something custom. However, for someone who is not familiar with Drupal the circumstances are much different. For that reason it is difficult to say one way is better than another for a person who isn’t really familiar with any cms’s and has little programming knowledge. This is especially true when the base platforms require significant customization. If they don’t than a cms like Drupal might not be as daunting as first time experience. However, a difficult decision to make for someone whom is not at least semi-familiar with a platform like Drupal. Newbies tend to prefer custom/re-inventing the wheel if that helps any.
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