OT: Website CMS

[Andrej Marjan]

On August 23, 2009 09:36:07 pm Rajinder Yadav wrote:
> All,
> 
> I am trying to decide on a web framework to use to redesign my
> personal website with so I can use it to build a community site. I
> have heard of Drupal, and lately I heard about Django from Clifford.

Rails and Django are app frameworks, Drupal is a CMS (like Joomla or PHP-
Nuke). You can also press blog software like Wordpress or Moveable Type into 
more generic web CMS duty.

Unless you specifically want to build your own CMS, then you probably don't 
want to start from scratch with Rails or Django, and would be better served by 
checking out the existing CMS's. Most CMS's can be extended with plugins, 
either pre-built or ones you custom-build.

Note that building a full blown (and secure) CMS is not easy -- just look at 
the security track record of the favourites, like Joomla, Drupal and 
Wordpress.

This site has a pretty useful catalog of open source CMS software, as well as 
live demos of a whole bunch of them:

http://www.opensourcecms.com/

> I would like to hear from others who might be using Drupal, Django or
> RoR about the benefits and shorting coming they have had to deal with
> for their CMS framework. I want to make a decision after trying to
> collect all the facts before I commit myself to learning a script
> language + framework.

The first thing to decide is what you're trying to do: use a CMS or build a 
CMS.

If the former, then be sure to try the live demos either on the site above or 
on the project sites.
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