I was reading about Drupal on wikipedia. This is a small portion of what it has to say: When compared to three other well-known open source CMS platforms covered by the MITRE CVE database, Drupal ranked second - after Plonebut before WordPress and Joomla .[76] So let's talk about Plone. Why was it ranked ahead of drupal? What is it about? On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:53 AM, keith smith wrote: > > I know little about Joomla. WordPress is good and widely used. It > however is not as expandable in my opinion. > > Making Drupal templates is much more initiative than how WordPress does > it. You can control how the output looked withy warupal, right down to > the smallest subsection of your content. > > A couple things that might help, but not a complete list of advantages of > Druapl. > > Themeing system, you can make a template for any content and any page. > > Take a look at the Drupal CCK. > > Take a look at Views. > > Look into blocks - a way of managing blocks of content. > > Drupal comes with a learning curve. If you have some PHP and MySql skills > you probably could build anything you want with Drupal. Think framework as > in PHPCake or Code Ignitor. > > If you are a consultant and become fluent in Drupal you might be able to > charge upwards of $150 an hour and have more work than you can handle. > (there is a marketing element that is necessary) > > Ok, A disclaimer - This is my paradigm. You will have to do your own do > diligence to determine if Drupal is the tool for you. > > I'm hoping this thread might open a productive discussion on which CMS to > use and why to use it. > > ------------------------ > Keith Smith > > --- On *Mon, 1/23/12, kitepilot@kitepilot.com *wrote: > > > From: kitepilot@kitepilot.com > > Subject: Re: website hosting > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" > Date: Monday, January 23, 2012, 6:32 AM > > > Why Drupal and not Wordpress? > Or Joomla? > I'm trying to make a decision myself... > Thanks! :) > ET > > > keith smith writes: > > > > You might want to look into a CMS. I'd recommend Drupal because it is a > great framework and once you learn more programming you will be a ble to do > anything you want with it. > > There is a steep learning curve, however I think it is worth it. > > ------------------------ > > Keith Smith > > --- On Sun, 1/22/12, Michael Havens > > wrote: > > From: Michael Havens > > > > Subject: Re: website hosting > > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" > > > > Date: Sunday, January 22, 2012, 8:55 PM > > My babies live in a foreign land and I want to start a website where > fathers in a similar situation can share with each other. I suppose it > would be more of a bulletin board. > > On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Steven Ziskin-Bailey > > wrote: > > Full Disclosure: I work for GoDaddy.com, my opinions however are my own > and I am not speaking for GoDaddy.com or in an official respect for > GoDaddy.com. > > > > Your question is a bit open ended, what do you plan on doing with said > website? Is it just a personal wordpress blog? Something serious? If > it's something serious I would look at the grid hosting packages... They're > a little bit more expensive, but you get a load balanced cluster serving > your page compared to a single server. (obviously if it's just a tinker > about personal site... you don't need the whole redundancy thing as our > uptime is pretty good by industry standards). > > > > With the grid and economy hosting you lost the whole website tonight > functionality. But if you know html, or are having someone else design it > for you -- that's not too big of a deal. > > > > If you can respond with more specifics as to what you're looking for... > I'm sure the list could help you out. > > -Steven Bailey. > > > > On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Michael Havens > > wrote: > > > > Well, I'm going to to register my first domain and get hosting with > godaddy (unless you know of something better). Anyways, I don't know which > hosting plan to go with, web hosting economy or 5-page website builder. I'm > thinking webhosting economy but the description godaddy gives isn't very > descriptive. So I suppose I should ask you guys who know more about these > things then me what the pros and cons are of these different services. > > > > > > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: