Michael Sweet wrote: > Alvin wrote: >> Michael Sweet wrote: >> >>> The forum page is just a front-end to our NNTP server, and it also >>> mirrored to/from the mailing lists. I'm open to better PHP-based >>> NNTP frontends, but AFAIK there aren't a whole lot of them. >> >> Have you had a look at Drupal (http://www.drupal.org)? It may be what we >> are looking for? > > Never heard of it, and given that there are no links or text saying > what it is on the home page... > > I don't see anything particularly compelling there... >
My bad, here's a link to the About page: http://drupal.org/about When I was referred to it, I had no idea what it was or exactly how it would "help me make and maintain a website as easily as possible since making websites is not my day job just something that is intermittently requested of me to do". :) In a nutshell, using your browser you create a website using Drupal (much in the same way you can manipulate database systems using phpMyAdmin). It's PHP-based. Actually, you (webmaster) add your content in much the same way that we (fltk website users) add articles right now to FLTK. I.E. Enter html content in a textarea and then click on submit. The look and feel of the website is handled by activating themes (which really just activates stylesheets, etc.) I found that there was quite a learning curve since I tend to use gvim to make my webpages. But, if you let go of wanting to write the HTML code yourself, then Drupal is much easier to learn. -- Alvin _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
