[Web-Development] Help Choosing a Content Management System Framework

Nancy J. Christolear [Address Concealed]
Tue Jan 16 18:31:12 EST 2007


We used Drupal for the Computerfest Site.  For the most part it was easy 
to work with.  Some of the add on packages like e-commerce were not 
robust and required quick fixes to make them work.

Nancy

Paul Visscher wrote:

>Spilker, Rob [Rob.Spilker at ngc.com] said:
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>>Anyone have any opinions on CMS frameworks such as postNuke, phpNuke,
>>Drupal, Typo3, others?
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>postnuke (and because it's derived from phpnuke, I'd say by extension
>phpnuke) is basically a complete nightmare. I've had a very hard time
>finding clear answers to questions. More frustratingly, it has been
>incredibly difficult to build the site in a way such that upgrading to a
>newer release doesn't result in massive brokenness (and given that no
>one seems to be able to write a database driven site without SQL
>injection bugs, security updates are an inevitability). Things have
>broken in completely bizarre ways and the lack of easily accessible
>information usually results in me diving in to the code and figuring out
>myself.
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>I have heard good things about Drupal and Joomla, though I've never used
>either. I heard good things about postnuke a while back, too, and they
>turned out to be completely wrong, so take that with an appropriately
>sized grain of salt.
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>--paulv
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