Hey thanks Michael. I went with Radiant for a couple reasons actually. The other CMS's I was looking at and even started working with were Wordpress and Textpattern for PHP and Mephisto and Simplelog in RoR. I use WP pretty exclusively for client CMS work, it's great and feature rich. I didn't want all those extra features. Plugin development for WP is time consuming. I find it's the same for all the other blog/cms I've used.
Radiant has a really nice feature called Snippets, that let you hammer out different blocks of code and reuse them when you need to. I felt this worked really well considering Exhibit is pretty much just blocks of HTML hooking into the API. And including these snippets in a post or a page is pretty straight forward. Radiant was also really easy to learn. I knew what I was doing with it, pretty much an hour after getting it up and running. Simplelog was a close second though. Very nice blog system. Radiant is just really easy to use, and that was pretty much the deciding factor. Derek Kinsman The Idea Company New Media Designer http://www.ideacompany.ca/ http://boring.ambitiouslemon.com/ 1.416.371.5652 Michael K. Bergman wrote: > Derek, > > Very nice! Let me add a vote of encouragement for an eventual write-up > on using Exhibit with RoR apps. BTW, any comment on why you went with > Radiant v. Mephisto (or others)? > > Mike > > derek | idea company wrote: > >> Hi guys, just thought I'd let you know that at >> http://radiant.ideacompany.ca/ I've started merging 2 really cool apps >> together (Radiant CMS and Exhibit) nothing is up yet as I'm moving >> everything off of my localhost and over to my host. >> >> Radiant is a really easy to use Rails app and works really well for >> integrating with Exhibit (I think). I'm also going to write up my >> process for how I'm putting exhibit into it. I'm using the nobelist.js >> dataset, I hope you don't mind. And it's going to be using the 2.0 >> branch of exhibit. I love this stuff. It just means I'm working less >> and playing more. >> >> Cheers, Derek. >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
