[support] Is Drupal Appropriate for Our Site?

[Miles Fidelman]

Victor Kane wrote:
> But now, your clients don't want websites. Nor do you if you want a 
> decent professional blog, capable of creating a portfolio content type 
> and listing it and theming it with views.
>
> They want website applications. Which means you need a development 
> framework to develop with, not an off-the-shelf-solution to stick 
> somewhere. Which means, to be productive, you need to get involved 
> with a framework, make reusable components of your own with it, get 
> involved in its community, know which modules to use, because you 
> can't do this alone. Which means you need to solve once and for all 
> your administration processes on all your customer sites, and teach 
> your customers best practices on how to upgrade Drupal and modules, or 
> provide maintenance services, etc.
>
> So, you can be a dilettant, and think in terms of half-assed solutions 
> for half-assed websites, or you can be a website application developer 
> who works with a CMS framework they have gotten to know well over the 
> months and years, and with which they have become productive. Which is 
> not to say you never whip up a few well formed A List Apart style 
> HTML+CSS for a small static site, or that you never install WordPress 
> for you uncle's blog (he's not going to update it tho).
>
Jeez man - the guy wants to market his environmental compliance 
services, not  build wizzy interactive web sites.  It's about getting 
the right message across, in the most cost-effective way; not about 
bells and whistles.

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