Hans C. Kaspersetz hans-at-cyberxdesigns.com |nyphp dev/internal group
use| wrote:
Halter, Shari wrote:
Any suggestions?
I am not familiar with Joomla, but I wonder how it would compare at the
front end?
My group has been customizing and installing Joomla for a couple of
years. It offers inline editing using a wysiwig. It has it quirks
but works very well for our customers. We usually write a small
manual that summarizes the full Joomla manual and covers just the
features the customer will be using. And we customize the
administrative interface to remove access to the nasty bits the users
may not need. Joomla does create some ugly URLS and the templating is
nav driven, so these can be headaches also. You can access the same
piece of content through more then 1 URL even if that URL is not
defined in the navigation. This can be a problem for some and needs
to be considered. If you install Joomla, take some time to download
and read the manual. It is very helpful. Ahh!!! One more thing. 1
piece of content can only be categorized into one Section/Category.
This can be a problem if a piece of content should truly be in
categorized in two places at once. This can be handled creatively.
I would strongly recommend avoiding contribute. It is like an evil
pink Cool-Aide. It scales very very poorly. The template control
system is awful. If you want to make a change to a main navigational
element through Contribute, it will download every page and make the
change. The process of downloading, updating and uploading hundreds
or thousands of pages takes a long time and is failure prone. Nothing
in contribute is database driven, it is purely file driven. It is
nice for the first 10-25 pages of a site. Beyond that and thing get
very difficult to manage.
Just my $.02.
Hans K
+2 on Hans review of Contribute.
Skip Joomla and go to ModX 0.9.5
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