[support] Is Drupal Appropriate for Our Site?

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Dick Middleton wrote:

> There's 2 simple CMSs which may fit your needs better than Drupal.  Firstly
> look at phpsqlitecms.  It's almost trivially simple, the data base is part of
> it so install & admin is easy.  It's not a full featured CMS but it works as
> far as it goes.  Here's a little thing I knocked up for a friend
> http://www.asstec.co.uk.

Dick,

   I'll look more closely at phpsqlitecms. I really like the wry humor on the
accounting site you set up. :-)

> The other one I like is cmsmadesimple.  This is more conventional but again is
> not fully featured but great for simple sites.  Here's what another friend did
> with it:  http://www.johnchivall.co.uk/

   This, too, will get a thorough look.

> My experience with websites in a box it that they're not awfully good, but
> worse, you get trapped into their web hosting and domain management.  If
> you find don't like like them you've got a hassle extracting yourself and
> starting again.

   Very true.

Thanks very much,

Rich