It's not entirely a bad idea for a graphics house to use a publishing tool like Dreamweaver, especially when that lets them create a site in an environment that meshes well with other tools like Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, etc etc etc.<br>
<br>Also, the PSD plugin Sitegrinder does a decent of job of shoehorning capacity for basic forms and arbitrary PHP in what is otherwise a piece of static content. Although these features are crude compared to a full CMS, they still can be applicable to many many people.<br>
<br>Drupal is intended primarily for dynamic content generation, where the volume of the content and the axes along which content may vary are pretty much open-ended, and this is its strong point. It's likely not worthwhile to convince a client that Drupal is a good fit if their business hinges more on the presentation of their content rather than the volume and diversity of content.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Christian Pearce <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christian@pearcec.com">christian@pearcec.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:27 PM, forest mars <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:compustretch@gmail.com" target="_blank">compustretch@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>But that last part is just saad, or am I the only
one who takes it personally when someone who falls into the above
categories listens to everything you tell them, and then says they will
be doing their top-secret earth-shatering new web development in....
Dreamweaver? <br><br>I die a little each time that happens…<br></div></blockquote></div><br>Worse than that is having a client come to you with a site done in Dreamweaver, spent as much as you would have charged doing the site in Drupal. But not they are stuck with a static site and wonder why it costs so much to add "basic" functionality. How do people handle those sort of situations?<br clear="all">
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