I and others would love to chime in and help complete the picture unfortunately Mohit already hit every point perfectly. Good luck with your choice. If you choose Radiant engineering will love how it all goes together and if you do your jobs right marketing will love how much power they have to publish exactly what they want in a clear and effective way.
Best, Steven http://www.stevensouthard.com On Dec 23, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Peter Degen-Portnoy wrote: > This is great stuff, thank you so very much, Mohit! > > - Peter > > >> From: Mohit Sindhwani <[email protected]> >> Organization: Viometrix | Onghu >> Reply-To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> >> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:00:45 +0800 >> To: <[email protected]> >> 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: [email protected] >> Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ >> Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant > > _______________________________________________ > Radiant mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: [email protected] Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
