On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 10:27:48AM -0500, inkfree press wrote:
"cl@isbd.net" wrote:
I'm trying Drupal for a second time (I'm a glutton for punishment!)
Your one-note song is really starting to be maddening. Why can't you find it in your fingers to simply not type these extraneous thoughts you have?
Sorry, I wasn't really trying to rub people up the wrong way.
If you want to use the software, then do so with some spirit and cordiality. If you do not want to use the software, then consider your complaints noted and move on.
Maybe I'm a bit more outspoken than some but I've been around the software development (and usenet, mailing lists, GPL software) world for a very long time and, in the main, have found that my comments are mostly welcome. I don't engage in flame wars but I do engage in 'lively argument' and I don't think that's necessaruly negative.
Please refrain from adding your not-very-important sarcasm, as it really makes me want to slap you with a wet trout (and filter all your email to the trash bin). As it is, I've deduced that you are trolling with flame-bait and that you are doing so out of a need for conflict.
No, I don't need conflict but I do like to understand why software seems, sometimes, to develop in what seem perverse ways.
I *really am* looking for a CMS to use for a personal small business web site and I'm finding it a *very* hard job to find a suitable tool to do it with. I keep coming back to Drupal for a number of reasons, e.g.:-
It's one of the most popular CMS It seems to have a lot of enthusiastic, active developers It has a mailing list as well as forums, I'm much happoer with E-Mail It runs quite nicely (i.e. smooth and quick) on my web host
.... but then I find I get stuck at what seem to me important requirements where Drupal is weak or lacking and thus I ask questions here to see if I'm misunderstanding.
I do give things back as well, see my recent posting about using Mozex with Drupal (or any CMS), that seems to me to be a really useful idea, especially if content formatting is important.