> gotta strongly disagree with you on Drupal being a portal ... Fair call James... to be honest I haven't looked at Drupal for many years, so probably shouldn't have included it in that list. I hereby stand corrected. ;)
regards greg -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 13 July 2007 9:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: WSG CMS Digest Due to an upgrade of SmarterMail, digests are not working properly. Please bear with us. We are working on it with the software vendor. There is nothing that Peter or Russ can do about it except shut off digests altogether until it is rectified, which we are not going to do. If you want to take yourself off the digest, please do so and we'll let you know when it is fixed via the announce list. ********************************************************************* WEB STANDARDS GROUP CMS MAIL LIST DIGEST ********************************************************************* From: James Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:52:31 +1000 Subject: Re: [WSG CMS] RE: WSG CMS Digest > > > I've used other "CMS" systems before too - Drupal, Joomla, DotNetNuke - > all of these are more "Portals" than CMS systems, as they allow > somebody > to quickly and easily build a website, but customisation is very > difficult (eg: try add an extra field to a Joomla 'article' - its > pretty > much impossible), and custom development (building modules etc) has a > VERY steep learning curve. Plus, and "modules" that you use in these > systems can't be customised, so IMO you're better off with a Framework > - > more work to get setup, but in the end it'll even out in the time saved > trying to customise / extend available modules. > gotta strongly disagree with you on Drupal being a portal - it is very much a cms/framework. Drupal can be used as a pure framework - you don't even need to use the CMS aspect of it - you can include the api with a simple include in any php page. Adding fields to content types with Drupal 5 is completely web based, and these fields are actually treated semantically in that they can be shared across several content types with an understanding of what type of information they store. And as Jonathan mentioned, the form api has a series of hooks that allow you to modify other module behaviours without touching their code. It is very rare that you need to touch core code, or even other module code. And if you do need to, you are probably doing it the wrong way. But i cant speak for the other systems you have mentioned. ************************************************************** Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************** the Arts Centre Tel: +61 3 9281 8000 Fax: +61 3 9281 8282 Web: http://www.theartscentre.net.au ******************************************************* The information in this electronic mail is privileged and confidential, intended only for use of the individual or entity named. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, copying or use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error please delete it immediately from your system and inform us by email on [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************* ************************************************************** Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **************************************************************
