Peter Degen-Portnoy wrote: > Fellow Railsians and Radiant peoples; > > We are essentially performing a CMS bake off. We are going through a similar issue. I love Radiant but we have had a few issues with trying to use it for a new site. So, let me get this started...
[+] 1. Radiant is stable - I haven't had any issues on low volume sites that I operate. 2. I program in Rails/ Ruby, so extensibility is easy! 3. Radiant is a breeze to maintain. 4. You can do almost any thing that you might need. [-] 1. Radiant templates - this is the most common problem I faced. People always talk about how easy it is to get templates for something like Joomla. I haven't used that yet, but there's this perception that it would be easier if we were using Joomla. 2. Setting up the site for getting in content takes some time - you need to install Radiant (that's the easy part) but integrating the extensions that you may need takes a while longer. You need to make sure everything is OK. Then you need to start on your templates. In a sense, Radiant seems to give you too much freedom - you have to create your layouts, snippets and then your pages. You have to "code" your navigation and so on. If you want support for Flash videos, either you code in your HTML or you add an extension... and so on. One of the problems that this creates is that it seems that a lot of extensions are needed and there's very little "in the box" - even something like attachment support has to be added on. 3. Some of the non-technical people don't seem to like Radius all that much. 4. Finally, no WYSIWIG out of box - I prefer that, but the non-technical users seem to prefer WYSIWIG (at least till they start to appreciate TexTile. Overall, I would pick Radiant cos I think it's quite neat :) Cheers, Mohit. 12/24/2009 | 2:58 AM. _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: [email protected] Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
