Hi Paul,
I'm afraid your experience isn't one we've shared - we're more or less
full-time Drupal developers now (after trying a number of alternatives).
If you haven't tried it, Drupal 5.x is a major step up from Drupal 4.7
(which was already outstanding) - a very impressive system, and its
theming capabilities from my experience are second to none.
Drupal uses php as its template language, too, which is a breath of
fresh air (given that PHP *is* a template language, I find it amusing
that so many people insist on inventing new templating languages written
in PHP but with different syntaxes and without all of PHP's
capabilities). With regard to the "little bits" of files, you may be
referring to Drupal's rather elegant theme override capabilities, one of
its great strengths, in my opinion. These allow you to change only the
bits you want to change without incurring the overhead of replicating an
entire theme if you don't need to.
Drupal's ecommerce functionality has been completely rewritten for 5.x,
but it is my understanding that it is quite a big improvement over
earlier versions. I haven't used it much myself (my colleagues here
have more experience with it and rate it as very good), so I recommend a
test drive before committing - but then that's true of any of the
CMS/E-Commerce suggestions.
Cheers,
Dave
Paul Bennett wrote:
Hi all,
I just have to pitch in here. My dealings with Drupal have been less than
wonderful. I find it vague and confusing (kind of like it's trying to be
everything to everyone) and when I tried to create a new template I found all
sorts of crappy table-based code needed, as well as the need to create bits of
files all over the place to get one new template working.
In my experience, something like Expression Engine
(http://www.expressionengine.com) or wordpress (http://www.wordpress.org) would
be a far better bet for a simple CMS and a heck of a lot easier for a
non-technical editor to use.
Just my 2c anyway
Paul
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