Re: [Linux-aus] Linux Australia Website

[Paul Coldrey <paul@ensigma.com.au>]

My experience with Typo3 would suggest it is not a good alternative for 
Linux Australia. If there is a guru out there who wants to set it all up 
then maybe it would work. No doubting it is a great piece of work but it 
is very complex and a complete pain to set up and and develop within. 
It's great strength seems to be it's permission systems - which for 
Linux Australia are probably not worth much. It does have a WYSIWYG 
content editor and provides impressive client-side functionality that 
seems to work well in all browsers,..... but, it is still a beast :-)

Cheers,

   Paul.


Damien Bezborodow wrote:
> I have a solid year's experience with Drupal and I must say that its a
> horrible system to work with. Its biggest drawbacks in 4.6 that I
> encounter every day are:
>
> - Lack of native GUI editor
> - Lack of object orientated design (especially cumbersome when building
> modules)
> - Pathetic theme system
>
> Granted, the hooks system is easy to use for simple tasks.
>
> I've been playing with Plone recently. Have you considered using it?
>
> Typo3 would be next on my list, but it's very complex, cumbersome and
> rather fusty. Apparently good for very large sites.

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Paul Coldrey
http://www.ensigma.com.au/