[support] Is Drupal Appropriate for Our Site?

[Miles Fidelman]

Dick,

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.
>
> 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/
>    
Nice pointers.  Any sense of whether either of them are any good at 
email and list integration (e.g., subscribing to content updates by 
email)?  I tend to need that in a lot of the work I do - which tends to 
push me to WordPress and Drupal, though their respective email and list 
integration modules always seem to lag the main release (I miss the 
OG2list module).  For some reason folks who develop CMS software don't 
seem to do email very well, and people who do list managers don't seem 
to do web interfaces very well.  About the only good open-source 
combination I've ever seen is groupserver 
(http://groupserver.org/groupserver), but development is by a tiny group 
in Australia, and they've never really built a larger 
development/support community around it.
> 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.
>
>    
Can you say vendor lock-in?

Miles

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