Richard, Radiant does sound like a good fit. Simply because a lot of people use it for blog software doesn't mean it has to be that. Take a look at the various sites linked from the wiki page called RadiantUsers. There's a lot of sites that use the built-in templates (or modified versions) but there are also sites built from scratch. Radiant does especially well with "brochure-ware" sites because of the flexibility given to the content designer and its orientation toward mostly-static content. For reference, here are a few sites built by core-team members:
Me: http://kckcc.edu (ignore the design, they screwed it up after I left) Daniel: http://www.thegroggysquirrel.com/ Loren: http://diopa.org Cheers, Sean Richard Hurt wrote: > Hello all, > > After lurking on the list for a while and checking out the Radiant home page > I have a question. I am looking for a lightweight CMS framework for my > business (KangarooBox.com) to serve up mostly static pages. I was initially > going to just use RoR but there are quite a few holes that I might need > filled in the future (authentication, shopping carts, etc.) so I went in > search of a framework. Radiant looks to be what I need but from what I can > see it really wants to be a blogging engine. While I will need a blog > (doesn't everyone :) I don't want to try and force Radiant to do something > it's not designed for. So my question is this, is Radiant the thing to use > on a small commercial website or should it just stick to blogs? > > The one major thing I'm looking for right now is some sort of survey > extension. I am an old programmer so I could write something but I'm also > lazy and would rather use someone else's work. :) Is there anything like > that for Radiant? If not, do you know how hard it would be to create it or > what other RoR solutions I might try? > > Thanx! > Richard > _______________________________________________ > Radiant mailing list > Post: Radiant@lists.radiantcms.org > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant > > _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@lists.radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
