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This is a great illustration of the difference between sites built with a CMS approach versus a custom built one, say using a web framework such as Django or Ra

by arocks 13y ago

This is a great illustration of the difference between sites built with a CMS approach versus a custom built one, say using a web framework such as Django or Rails. It is usually easy for a non-programmer to build sites using a CMS but the end-user can often understand that it was obviously cobbled together using several clunky pieces. The result is often a poor user experience in terms of the user interface, functionality and performance.

kitsune_ 13y ago
And you know what the funny thing is? Drupal's UI/UX is usually often vastly superior to most other popular content management systems. I've had the 'pleasure' of working with a variety of content management systems over the course of my career and Drupal is easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy. You wouldn't believe the shit that is out there, especially in the Enterprise world. Edit: I mean, I hate PHP with a fiery passion and it would never be my language of choice for a project, but I'd still rather be forced to use Drupal and its clunky EAV-Design than abominations such as Typo3 (also PHP/Typoscript), Joomla (also PHP), DotNetNuke (holy crap, please kill me now, this must be the worst CMS of all time), LifeRay Portal (Java)...
- untothebreach 13y ago
  I have worked with DotNetNuke, and while I agree that it is horrible, I have to say that HP/Autonomy/Interwoven's Teamsite/Livesite CMS is hands-down the worst piece of software (note: 'piece of software', not just 'CMS') that I have ever used. When you consider that companies will spend 7 figures for that POS, it boggles the mind...
  - girvo 13y ago
    I used some IBM CMS that was so bad I quit the job after two days. Of course, the fact that I was hired into a content management position when I applied for an entirely different one, and wasn't told until the day I rocked up didn't help matters.
  - JVIDEL 13y ago
    When you consider that companies will spend 7 figures for that POS, it boggles the mind... Yes awful..... so exactly which companies are paying upwards of a million for this? I just got an idea for a startup, I call it it Terrib.ly All customer support by Roy Trenneman
- niutech 13y ago
  Have you tried ProcessWire? It's lightweight and as flexible as Drupal, with a simple jQuery-like API.

by arocks 13y ago

kitsune_ 13y ago

And you know what the funny thing is? Drupal's UI/UX is usually often vastly superior to most other popular content management systems. I've had the 'pleasure' of working with a variety of content management systems over the course of my career and Drupal is easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy. You wouldn't believe the shit that is out there, especially in the Enterprise world. Edit: I mean, I hate PHP with a fiery passion and it would never be my language of choice for a project, but I'd still rather be forced to use Drupal and its clunky EAV-Design than abominations such as Typo3 (also PHP/Typoscript), Joomla (also PHP), DotNetNuke (holy crap, please kill me now, this must be the worst CMS of all time), LifeRay Portal (Java)...

untothebreach 13y ago
I have worked with DotNetNuke, and while I agree that it is horrible, I have to say that HP/Autonomy/Interwoven's Teamsite/Livesite CMS is hands-down the worst piece of software (note: 'piece of software', not just 'CMS') that I have ever used. When you consider that companies will spend 7 figures for that POS, it boggles the mind...
- girvo 13y ago
  I used some IBM CMS that was so bad I quit the job after two days. Of course, the fact that I was hired into a content management position when I applied for an entirely different one, and wasn't told until the day I rocked up didn't help matters.
- JVIDEL 13y ago
  When you consider that companies will spend 7 figures for that POS, it boggles the mind... Yes awful..... so exactly which companies are paying upwards of a million for this? I just got an idea for a startup, I call it it Terrib.ly All customer support by Roy Trenneman
niutech 13y ago
Have you tried ProcessWire? It's lightweight and as flexible as Drupal, with a simple jQuery-like API.