Hi all, On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:53:21 +0200 Omer Zak <w...@zak.co.il> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 13:37 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > recently someone requested me to implement something on > > http://www.linux.org.il/ and after I was distracted and explained the fact > > that it is a custom PHP site that parses XML at run-time and converts it to > > HTML, and that there is no apparent need why it should be a dynamic site, > > he said he thinks he'll just install WordPress there and allow people to > > edit the site. > > > > I think it's a bad idea. As opposed to WordPress and similar CMSes, static > > XHTML sites that are generated from templates have the following advantages: > > Another option is to use WordPress (by the way, my own experience with > it is good, security-wise - apparently because there are very few people > who are allowed to add content to it) on a subdirectory i.e. use the URL > http://www.linux.org.il/blog/ or something. > > This way, static material will continue to be generated from templates, > and only that subdirectory is to be managed by WordPress. > People, www.linux.org.il is not intended to be a blog or a wiki or a Drupal-like site or whatever. It is just a portal (אתר שער), that is updated sporadically. From my experience, most of the community's user-generated content sites in Israel tended to stagnate after people became too busy to update them. We don't need another site like that and we already have a wiki and many blogs. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Freecell Solver - http://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/ Tcl is Lisp on drugs. Using strings instead of S‐expressions for closures is Evil with one of those gigantic E’s you can find at the beginning of chapters. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Discussions mailing list Discussions@hamakor.org.il http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions
