This is great stuff, thank you so very much, Mohit! - Peter
> From: Mohit Sindhwani <t...@onghu.com> > Organization: Viometrix | Onghu > Reply-To: <t...@onghu.com>, <radiant@radiantcms.org> > Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:00:45 +0800 > To: <radiant@radiantcms.org> > Subject: Re: [Radiant] Stories of stability > > 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: Radiant@radiantcms.org > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
