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  • armsbottomer

    drupal would be the most powerful/customizable option in my opinion. however, two things need to be taken into account when using it: layout and amount of time to produce it. it'll probably take longer to create a drupal site, and its more difficult to get create unconventional layouts.

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    Dog-earJul 3, 09, noon – Permalink
  • version3

    django

    • Not really a CMS, is it?– ukit1/3
      nope, plone would be a good python cms, but with django you have to build it yourself– armsbottomer2/3
      my bad– version33/3
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    Dog-earJul 3, 09, 12:01 p.m. – Permalink
  • moth

    Have a look at http://www.concrete5.org.

    It's edit-in-place and pretty comprehensive once you get under the hood.

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    Dog-earJul 3, 09, 12:04 p.m. – Permalink
  • ukit

    Why is it difficult to change the layout in Drupal? Don't most of these CMSes just provide hooks into the data and let you create your own layout?

    • it does, but drupal's framework is more coding intensive than say wp. it's harder to strike a balance between functionality and visual design, but it can be done.– armsbottomer1/2
      and visual design, but it can be done. take a look at the drupal themes compared to the wordpress ones.– armsbottomer2/2
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    Dog-earJul 3, 09, 12:09 p.m. – Permalink
  • blaw

    Via Jaline, via Jevad:
    http://codingcow.com/news/13-fre…

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    Dog-earJul 3, 09, 12:15 p.m. – Permalink
  • TheBlueOne

    ExpressionEngine if you want to drop the change would give you all of that.

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    Dog-earJul 3, 09, 1:16 p.m. – Permalink
  • ukit

    Yea, I've played around with ee for another project.

    It does have its strengths, wish there were more pre-built templates available for it.

    • you have a template problem?
      (x)html not your strong suit?      – version31/3
      I can code, it's just easier to have an example to start from. I don't have the luxury of weeks to work on these things.– ukit2/3
      That's the one advantage of WP, plenty of tutorials and examples of how to do things– ukit3/3
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    Dog-earJul 3, 09, 1:21 p.m. – Permalink
  • version3

    the only reason i asked about the templates was that my cms guy suggested i look into it a few months back, just got around to it a few weeks ago but haven't done anything with the free download yet. i wasn't sure if it was EE's setup making it difficult or what.

    the part i feared was the backend looked like it left too much control in the editors hands, template choices, etc. i pay for a custom one each time because it only allows editing of the content that clients should be updating/adding to

    • i don't want to have to clean up fuck ups from clients not understanding what they;re doing– version3
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    Dog-earJul 3, 09, 1:28 p.m. – Permalink
  • ukit

    No, EE is completely un-templatized (not sure if that's a word). It's very "bare bones" which is the appeal of it for me. Also, best designed admin UI, much better than WP IMO.

    The downsides for me are: (1) Not much in the way of templates/ modules/ support, fairly small userbase (2) Must pay $200/ installation (3) Adds index.php to all URLs by default (can be hacked but annoyingly difficult)

    • NM, I might have misunderstood what you were saying there– ukit
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    Dog-earJul 3, 09, 1:32 p.m. – Permalink
  • version3

    nah, it's cool, sharing info is (i think) the point of the site. the index.php statement has me a bit confuzzled though, i should look into what that's about

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    Dog-earJul 3, 09, 1:36 p.m. – Permalink
  • version3

    is there not enough here to help piece together your ideas?
    http://expressionengine.com/temp…
    i have to admit, this is somewhat uninspiring
    http://expressionengine.com/file…

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    Dog-earJul 3, 09, 1:39 p.m. – Permalink
  • ukit

    I guess what I'm saying is that they don't seem to have a wide range of entire site templates that you can "reverse engineer" like WP or Joomla does.

    I'd rather start from a template for the functionality and only worry about designing the front-end graphics if you know what I mean.

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    Dog-earJul 3, 09, 1:42 p.m. – Permalink
  • welded

    ExpressionEngine doesn't really do templates like WordPress or Drupal; you can't just drop in a pre-made template, click apply and walk away.

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    Dog-earJul 3, 09, 9:21 p.m. – Permalink

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