[TriLUG] OT: Website Administrator position

[John Wheeler]

Drupal is a winner in my book.
Joomla is free but i don't care at all for their largely non-free  
plugin community.

Drupal does come with a steeper learning curve but developing custom  
code on top of it is very logical and the plugin community is active  
and in it to further the community.


John Wheeler
Web Applications Developer
jcw.dev at gmail.com
336-255-8004

On Jul 29, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Matthew Pusateri wrote:

> I have not used Joomla, I did check out their demo ~6-9 months ago and
> I remember thinking if I had to give a CMS to a clueless Windows
> admin(or user), Joomla would be it.  Now granted, I've never installed
> or used it, so my opinions may not be founded.  That being said, I've
> installed and used Drupal in several places, once as a corporate
> intranet were >300 people used it.  Drupal rocks!  It definitely has a
> steeper learning curve, but it's a much more featured CMS, and has
> many many more plugins.  If your looking for something that is highly
> customizable, then Drupal is it.  I remember when I compared Plone,
> Drupal, and Joomla.  Drupal seemed to just out right win out.
> Drupal's plugins are extensive, far greater in depth than Joomla.  I
> heard that Yahoo(heavily modified) and LinkedIn both use Drupal.
> There is a pretty good Google Video from a google summit/mtg on
> Drupal., the link escapes me at the moment.
>
> Matt P
>
> On Jul 29, 2008, at 4:51 PM, Allen Freeman wrote:
>
>> Unless you'd care to back that one up with some kind of
>> documentation I'm going to parse that as pure noise.
>>
>> --- On Wed, 7/30/08, Jim Ray <jim at neuse.net> wrote:
>> From: Jim Ray <jim at neuse.net>
>> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Website Administrator position
>> To: "Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion"
>> <trilug at trilug.org>
>> Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 12:58 AM
>>
>> Drupal blows grits compared to Joomla and reminds me of assembly
>> language regarding complexity. I'm sorry. My little ole pea brain
>> can't
>> hang any more with complexity.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
>> Behalf Of Allen Freeman
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:12 PM
>> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Website Administrator position
>>
>> Drupal = win, especially if you're multihosting.
>>
>> --- On Wed, 7/30/08, Douglas Ward <dward at nccumc.org> wrote:
>> From: Douglas Ward <dward at nccumc.org>
>> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Website Administrator position
>> To: "Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion"
>> <trilug at trilug.org>
>> Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 12:22 AM
>>
>> I'm not necessarily sold on Joomla as a final solution.  To be  
>> honest,
>> I'll
>> support whatever the new person decides they want to use.  I am  
>> hoping
>> to
>> accomplish a few things here:
>>
>>  1. Bring in another open source advocate.
>>  2. Switch our current Dreamweaver/IIS infrastructure over to an open
>>  source solution.
>>  3. Have another knowledgeable linux person that can help me with
>>  creating/supporting websites in apache (we host domain websites for
>> our
>>  local churches).
>>
>> Having open source advocates send in their resumes stack the deck in
>> my
>> favor.  Anything that helps me get that cursed IIS server out of my
>> server
>> room is a great help.
>>
>> What do you think is better than Joomla?
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Ruth Suehle <wuzzled at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Jim Ray <jim at neuse.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I wouldn't touch those stinking Windows people. They really,
>> really
>>>> suck. Frontpage can just stand up and go home.
>>>
>>>
>>> Not arguing that at all, but...
>>>
>>> Now, Joomla is different. I recommended it to the IEEE Eastern North
>>>> Carolina Section and have their upcoming new web site address:
>>>
>>>
>>> If we're recommending things on the basis of:
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Why don't you advocate something like Joomla so anyone that
>> can get to
>>>> a
>>>>> web site can potentially be a webmaster?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Joomla's not it, IMO. I don't think the interface is noob-friendly
>> at all.
>>> I've tried. Actually, I don't think the interface is that friendly
>> at all.
>>> It's possible that that opinion is based on a version or so ago, but
>> unless
>>> it's changed dramatically... yuck.
>>>
>>> Ruth
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