I have to disagree in most of your points. Personally I started out with
a CMS system in 2003 - 2004, and started with testing Mambo, eZ Publish,
Drupal and PostNuke. As an non-developer, knowing nothing about PHP,
every one of these was easy to install and get a site up and running,
but when I wanted to implement my own design I got stuck very soon.
Then I tried TYPO3, and in a fairly short time I had a site with my own
design up and running.
Den 25.03.2010 11:02, skrev Cameron:
Drupal is superior to Typo3 in almost every way. Typo3 is an exercise in
over-engineered academic CMS concepts, whereas Drupal + CCK + Views = 90% of
any website you would actually end up putting together for a client.
Yes, in many part it's over-enginered - like a lot of others enterprise
CMS. And you are correct that 90 % could be made with Drupal. But I bet
that you are going to use more and less the same amount of time that I
would do with TYPO3.
Typoscript is quite literally the most insane thing I have seen in 14 years
of my career in the IT industry.
Then you havent's seen how to configure some other Enterprise CMS.
TypoScript is the main reason that I still are using TYPO3. Of course it
has flaws and some missing logic, but the power and flexibility of
TypoScript gives opportunities I haven't seen in any other CMS. With
only a few lines of code, you can change most of you website.
The other MAJOR issue, and one that seals it completely for me, is that the
community around Drupal is 50 times the size of the Typo3 one. What this
means is that any problem you have, the solution is a Google search away.
The same simply does not apply for Typo3. Any CMS is going to take you a
month or so to really get up to speed with, but with Drupal you'll find the
perfect balance between flexibility and functionality. With Typo3 you'll be
battling this arcane, lunatic bloody Typoscript system and not being able to
find anyone to help. This isn't a *criticism* of the Typo3 community, you
guys are plenty helpful enough, it's just that there's simply not enough of
you.
I have never in my years using TYPO3 had any problems getting help. In
95 % of the cases I have found it with a Google search, or reading a bit
more in the manuals. The 5 % rest I have got help on the mailing list.
And I haven't only made small and easy websites.
Else, the size of a community isn't the same as quality.
Regards
Erik Svendsen
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