[TriLUG] OT: Website Administrator position

[Jim Ray]

I haven't given Wordpress a go.

Now, HTML expert or no, I use Dreamweaver whenever I want to really
control how a web site looks. It is the only editor I have seen that
won't screw up the code.

Of course, there is always vi. Emacs sux.


-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Ruth Suehle
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 3:54 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Website Administrator position

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Jim Ray <jim at neuse.net> wrote:

> Well, certainly, everyone is entitled to an opinion. I'd like to see a
> better suggestion instead of running down the one made.


Sorry. That's totally fair. Bad form to bash without offering an
alternative.

I know there are several open source CMS options. Unfortunately, I
haven't
tried them all, and I don't really have a good answer. For one pretty
small
site, I'm essentially using WordPress as a CMS for lack of a better
option.
That wouldn't work so well for a large site, though. So maybe somebody
reading has had other good experiences. I'd certainly like to hear.

I coded my first web site in a text processor in 1997 and contend Joomla
> is better than writing code.
>
> Dreamweaver is nice yet forces folks to buy expensive proprietary
> software and have dedicated/trained/compensated webmasters. Not cool
in
> the Methodist church I know.
>

Dreamweaver is totally not appropriate for people who don't at least
know
HTML. No WYSIWYG software is, because none of them write good, validated
code. You always have to do something or other with what it outputs, and
if
you don't know what the code is, you can't do that. (Obvs.)

Ruth
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