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Drupal is one of the strongest and toughest CMS. Before knowing about the importing of Joomla to Drupal first we need to know about the terminologies of both.

1. Joomla “Template” is called “Theme” in Drupal.
2. Component = Module.
3. Module = Block.
4. Mambot/Plugin = Input filter.
5. Menu-Horizontal = Primary Links
6. Menu-Vertical = Navigation
7. Dynamic Content Item = Story
8. Static Content = Page
9. Back-end = there is no back-end in Drupal, but modules like Administration Menu that provide a similar interface.
10. SEF = Clean URLs (but some docs refer to SEF, too).
11. Section = Taxonomy Vocabulary/Term
12. Section Title = Taxonomy Term
13. Category = Taxonomy Term
14. Introtext = Teaser
15. Maintext = Body (see explanation below)
16. Pathway = Breadcrumb

Here are some steps for migration of Joomla to Drupal.

1. Transfer all Joomla sections to Drupal categories and transfer all Joomla categories to Drupal terms according to their parents.
2. Copy the Joomla introtext to drupal teaser.
3. Copy the Joomla introtext + maintext to drupal body.

To migrate from Joomla 1.x to Drupal 6.x the following is the procedure.

1. First install Drupal 5.x on the system.
2. Import Joomla Sections and Categories there is a module for migration for Joomla to Drupal 5.x http://drupal.org/project/joomla
3. Upgrade Drupal 5.x to Drupal 6.x before upgrading take a backup of your database and copy the files and sites folder.
3.1 Place the site in offline mode.
3.2 Switch your theme to default garland.
3.3 Disable all custom and contributed module.
3.4 Remove all old files & directory of drupal installation.
3.5 Copy the new version of files.
3.6 Copy the backed up sites & files directory.
3.7 Run the update.php by visiting http://www.abc.com/update.php
3.8 Re-Install all the modules according to the drupal version.