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Thanks randlet! I can't really comment objectively on Django CMS, as I've had no exposure to it. Too busy working on Mezzanine. I did at one point take at loo

Thanks randlet! I can't really comment objectively on Django CMS, as I've had no exposure to it. Too busy working on Mezzanine. I did at one point take at look at their page model, which I imagine in both projects is the heart of the CMS. It was a relative mess compared to Mezzanine's, which has always strictly strived to keep a painstakingly clean code base and design, to make jumping in and hacking on as easy as possible. I've also seen a lot more complaints from frustrated Django CMS users than I have with Mezzanine, many of those who have come to Mezzanine afterwards and really enjoyed it. But that is most likely a result of Django CMS being much more popular - something Mezzanine has a much harder time achieving without a generic name :-) But please, take that comparison with a grain of salt. Go ahead and try both!

aDemoUzer 15y ago
It does looks good. I need a BLOG system and have been working on rewiring django-article module to have the twitter-bootstrap and lot of other modifications. After reading the feature list of MZ, I was ready to make the switch but when I tried it out and saw the system missing the features I needed, I decided to stay with what I got. - writing article in Textile/Markup/restructured text - thumbnail generation side-note: How about a rename to something with django in it? i.e Better Django CMS? Personally, Mezzanine does not rolls right off my tongue and my brain is just refusing to memorize it.
- stephen_mcd 15y ago
  There's a third party app that integrates Markdown into Mezzanine: https://bitbucket.org/onelson/mezzanine-mdown https://bitbucket.org/onelson/mezzanine-mdown Mezzanine also contains automated thumbnailing for any images at the template level: http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/packages.html#mezzanine.core.templatetags.mezzanine_tags.thumbnail http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/packages.html#mezzanine.core.... Can't help you out with the project name however, sorry :-)
- loevborg 15y ago
  This completely beside the point, but Mezzanine immediately struck me as a wonderful project name - exotic and at the same time mundane. Congratulations for a 1.0 release!

aDemoUzer 15y ago

It does looks good. I need a BLOG system and have been working on rewiring django-article module to have the twitter-bootstrap and lot of other modifications. After reading the feature list of MZ, I was ready to make the switch but when I tried it out and saw the system missing the features I needed, I decided to stay with what I got. - writing article in Textile/Markup/restructured text - thumbnail generation side-note: How about a rename to something with django in it? i.e Better Django CMS? Personally, Mezzanine does not rolls right off my tongue and my brain is just refusing to memorize it.

stephen_mcd 15y ago
There's a third party app that integrates Markdown into Mezzanine: https://bitbucket.org/onelson/mezzanine-mdown https://bitbucket.org/onelson/mezzanine-mdown Mezzanine also contains automated thumbnailing for any images at the template level: http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/packages.html#mezzanine.core.templatetags.mezzanine_tags.thumbnail http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/packages.html#mezzanine.core.... Can't help you out with the project name however, sorry :-)
loevborg 15y ago
This completely beside the point, but Mezzanine immediately struck me as a wonderful project name - exotic and at the same time mundane. Congratulations for a 1.0 release!