On 09/25/10 00:25, Rich Shepard wrote:
This may seem trivial, but all I read about Drupal, including the introduction in the ORA book that arrived today stresses the application of the Drupal framework/CMS for community-content based Web sites (or e-commerce sites). My very small consulting company doesn't fall in either category.
Most of the pages on our site are static; I'll add new newsletters or white papers to the documents.shtml page, but that's about it. I would like to add polls, a form-based e-mail capability for those who prefer to ask for information that way rather than via regular e-mail, and -- perhaps -- the ability to comment on issues raised in newsletters and white papers. This is why I ask whether Drupal is really the appropriate tool for me to learn and apply.
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/
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.
ymmv
Dick