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I find his description of Drupal as "Internet-based dumb tech" interesting, considering Drupal's reputation as a hard to use, high learning curve CMS.
by chaosmachine 18y ago
I find his description of Drupal as "Internet-based dumb tech" interesting, considering Drupal's reputation as a hard to use, high learning curve CMS.
- brandnewlow 18y agoThose descriptors are very true. But Drupal qualifies as "internet-based, dumb tech" because a lot of places still use the custom, desktop-based online publishing apps that were created between 1998 and 2004 or so. There are companies out there still charging an arm and a leg to create custom enterprise CMSs for publishing companies. Meanwhile the Wordpress folks are offering hosted "dumb tech" to VIPs for $500/month/blog and Drupal's founder just launched Acquia, which aims to do the same thing for Drupal. Compared to some of the CMSes I've used (the one at Slate.com is incredibly complex, for example) Drupal is dumb tech.
- blasdel 18y agoBut it's pretty easy to one-click-install a mediocre site with multiple kinds of pages and baroque threaded commenting everywhere.
- unalone 18y agoDrupal is "dumb tech" in that if you're looking to MODIFY and CUSTOMIZE things, it's the easiest way to do so. It's not a "dumb blog" or even "dumb CMS". It's a "dumb site builder." You can use Drupal to emulate the functionality of nearly any site with almost no time. I use Drupal to mock up web sites and get a feel for how they work with it. So it's dumb in that regard (and highly recommended, too).