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So, were you hired to make a site for the RCA and decided to build a CMS first? I'm interested in how this came about.
by rikkus 13y ago
So, were you hired to make a site for the RCA and decided to build a CMS first? I'm interested in how this came about.
- tomd 13y agoYes, sort of. We evaluated the options of sticking with their commercial CMS or switching to a famous open source CMS which we're very familiar with, but we estimated that it would be cheaper to build the site they wanted from scratch in Django. When we'd finished it felt like a lot of the work was reusable, and the RCA kindly agreed to let us open source the project. We've spent the last few weeks extracting it into a standalone package, but there are definitely still some rough edges: documentation, obviously; more tests; i18n.
- leobelle 13y agoThis is pretty awesome. A non-PHP CMS is long, long overdue. I know there already are some, but I think the challenge is that non-technical types are still more able to quickly get started by just dragging some PHP into their shared hosting service and turning it on. I hope this will change, and a project like yours is key to making that transition.