[SATLUG] CMS Solution

[Brian Lewis]

I do believe that your opinions are just that: opinions. every person 
who writes code thinks the way they write it is "great" and the way other
write theirs is "Crap". Why not write your own cms if you think working 
with a cms is crap? If they're so bad, don't use them. Most CMS's are 
tailored to whomever the distributor's audience is. Just because you don't 
want to write your own extensions, and/or do the work in coding the whole 
site yourself, doesn't mean that you should just bash someone else work. 
Where is the "Daniel Givens CMS"? Oh wait, it hasn't been released because 
it doesn't exist. Before bashing on someones hard work, write one 
yourself, and see how much better yours is. Thanks!

-Brian


On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Daniel J. Givens wrote:

> Ernest De Leon wrote:
>> Joomla sounds nice, and Drupal is nice too.  I want simplicity but
>> with extensibility.  The thing is, I don't want a lot of functionality
>> built in that I won't use that can cause bloat or sluggishness.  I
>> want something tight, fast and extensible if need be.
>
> Having worked with Joomla extensively, it's crap. The majority of the 
> extensions available are crap. The code behind Joomla and especially behind 
> the extensions is crap. Xoops was a little better, but still not great. I 
> haven't seen a CMS I would call /good/ yet.
>
> Joomla doesn't really give you much functionality at all. Xoops doesn't give 
> you any out of the box other than user management. They are more frameworks 
> than anything and leave it up to others to write the extensions. Having 
> written extensions for both, I think Xoops is a better platform to write for. 
> The only problem is Xoops has had some issues making forward progress, but 
> they seem to be getting their act together.
>
> There are a ton of CMS's out there and most of them suck. My suggestion is to 
> take a weekend and try a bunch out. You can get a good start by heading to 
> opensourcecms.com. They've got sandbox installs of lots of CMS, blog, forum, 
> and other open source web apps.
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