[consulting] DrupalCOM: european Small Business distro

Laura Scott laura at pingv.com
Sat Dec 17 04:37:59 UTC 2005


Dan Robinson wrote:
> Below is a re-post of my original post - hopefully a CEO would
> understand it.  I'll try for something a little more explicitly
> targetted at a CEO -
>
> Dan (talking to his CEO) -
>
> "Boss.  Look at this new Drupal thingie that Bèr came up with.  All I
> have to do is install Drupal and fill in this form and *bam* I instantly
> have a menu system and website. Cool huh?"
>
>
> In short I think that a summary of the above would be to say "impose a
> 'simple' information architecture (IA) and navigational context (menus)
> for a 'brochure' website" - the IA is a simple hierarchy and some
> blocks.  I should be able to "declare" something like the following -
>
> Home
> Our Services
>     Strategy
>     Marketing
>     Technology Consulting
> Customers
>    Government
>         Education
>         Services
>     Telecom
>         Wireless
>          POTS
> Team
>    Board
>    Investors
>    Employees
> News
> [login]
>
> Once that is done I should have a site with menus - DONE
>
> This by the way is a Joomla killer imho (tm).
>   
This is all starting to make sense to me now, and I can see the big 
upside to the whole concept. Why didn't I get this before? Maybe the 
holiday stress or the two big immense projects I'm on right now. Or 
maybe it's just my thick skull.

My apologies to all for any harsh judgments coming from me.

Laura



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