[Actionchix] Choice of CMS

[Clytie Siddall]

Hi everyone :)

My BBEdit Gems (Drupal CMS) has responded to my queries:

On 18/03/2006, at 1:37 AM, Jonathan Ploudre wrote:

> I can't explain better than the drupal site does. The requirements
> mentioned can indeed be done in drupal. I've used
>
> opensourcecms.com
>
> to look at the abilities of various options. Drupal and plone are both
> great options. I've tried plone in the past but found the php in
> drupal easier to modify. But plone is good too.
>
> I would consider doing the 'not breaking URLs' bit with apache
> mod_rewrite. You that way you can improve URLs with the redesign if
> you want and then just redirect the old ones that don't match anymore
> to the appropriate link. Mod_rewrite may not be the simplest thing but
> it's built for exactly that problem.
>
> All the rest of those functions you mention are added via modules in
> drupal. If you look at the other options, it may blow your mind.
>
> As to the code stability: I think drupals process is exceptional. And
> it's very mature software. I also love their' focus on usability. Not
> many open source programs focus like drupal does.
>
> Check out:
>
> http://drupal.org/project/Modules
> http://drupal.org/handbook/is-drupal-right-for-you
>
> http://www.cmsmatrix.org/
>
> And you can side-by-side compare plone and drupal

I hope that is useful. I can certainly give you user-level feedback  
on Drupal. :)

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
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