[support] Is Drupal Appropriate for Our Site?

[Dick Middleton]

On 09/25/10 16:55, Miles Fidelman wrote:

>> There's 2 simple CMSs which may fit your needs better than Drupal.  Firstly
>> look at phpsqlitecms.

>> The other one I like is cmsmadesimple. 

> 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'm sure phpsqlitecms does none of that.  The author has built a forum using
it.  This CMS is unusual in that it is focussed mostly on serving static
pages.  It's like an templating engine with a config GUI.

Cmsmadesimple has plugin modules. There are modules for newsletters as well as
a forms module, blogs, polls etc.

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 

Yes, I agree, there's some 'opportunities' there.

> (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.

Interesting, I've not seen that before. At the moment I'm stuck with mailman -
see below ...

>> 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?

LOL :)   I probably could but I wouldn't!

Dick