>From my limited experience of Drupal I would say it is a beast of a CMS system which has the most shockingly complex and ugly administration backend.
I designed and redesigned an entirely self coded bespoke CMS system for fundraising.co.uk. A few years back he decided he wanted to go open-source as that was what the not-for-profit community was doing and asked if I would learn Drupal. I declined and he went elsewhere to get his site developed, but still hosts it with us on a dedicated managed server. He is now onto his 5th or 6th Drupal developer and the site has very few improvements over what my last bespoke solution gave him, in fact it has regularly crashed his server which he only runs this one website on (has a few tiny ones on it too, but too small to be a factor). We have had to upgrade the servers RAM yet it still peaks out on regular occasions due to the resources his combination of plugins seem to demand. Because this off-the-shelf *cough* CMS system is supposed to do everything for everyone, the administration section is overly complex and took my client some learning to be able to get his head around. Personally I believe a bespoke CMS with only the features the client wants is a much cleaner solution and that basing a bespoke CMS on CakePHP means it's coded using a framework other developers can step into or contribute to at any time. Also, the Drupal website that was slower, more resource hungry and offered little improvement cost the client way in excess of what I charged for developing his website twice, not counting the cost of the 4 or 5 developers since. But at the end of the day you can try convincing a client as much as you want, they probably have some devil sitting on their shoulder, Bob in the office who has never coded a line in his life but knows all about web development, saying Drupal is the best thing since sliced bread. As cricket says, sometimes you have to take it or leave it. HTH Paul. Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en
