This is often a question that comes up when someone starts to compare the Drupal CMS with other competing platforms such as WordPress or Joomla! The answer is two-fold. Yes, implementing a site in Drupal takes a sound understanding of Drupal's architecture, but managing a site once it is configured is not at all difficult. Drupal was built to be incredibly powerful and flexible, which means that setting up a Drupal website can often require a Drupal developer.
On the contrary the Drupal community has a host of groups, committees, and dedicated resources that provide support to Drupal's ongoing development process. There is an entire Drupal community solely dedicated to detecting and patching any security vulnerabilities in the framework, making Drupal just as secure as many of the expensive proprietary content management systems available.
Drupal is the most powerful content management system available and allows for easy organization, management, and publishing of site content. Drupal's seemingly endless customization options and modules allow Drupal sites to be unique in appearance and functionality. Drupal runs millions of web sites, including many of the world's biggest. Drupal is an especially strong tool for government and enterprise, but is easy enough to use to be the platform of choice for individuals and small companies.
Because of Drupal's robust configuration options there are literally thousands of ways your website can be constructed. From custom permission levels to hundreds of modules that add functionality, the ways in which you can build a Drupal site to fit your needs are nearly limitless. For those who are willing to take the time and effort to learn and fully comprehend Drupal's taxonomy, the sky is the limit. For the average website owner, however, it is best to hire a professional Drupal developer to get your site setup and ready to roll. Once you site is complete, updating, editing and adding content in Drupal is quite simple. Your developer will likely install a WYSIWYG making it easy to edit text without the need to know how to write HTML. Your developer will also lay out permissions in such a way that you or your employees have access to edit only the areas of your website which you plan on updating, such as the website's "blog", "services", or "contact us" pages.
All in all, the answer to "Is Drupal Difficult?" is yes and no. It takes a specialist to configure Drupal, but anyone who's comfortable with a computer should be able to handle day-to-day content updates once your website has been built.
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