Comments on: SUPER FAIL http://feliciaday.com/blog/super-fail Sat, 19 May 2012 04:13:56 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anjuan http://feliciaday.com/blog/super-fail#comment-5192 Anjuan Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:20:06 +0000 http://feliciaday.net/blog/2008/01/17/super-fail/#comment-5192 I have only played with both so I will yield to your much more in depth experiece! When I installed Drupal, it looked like a very basic site, but I installed Joomla, and the default site looked like it was much more advanced. I also found Drupal to be hard to use in terms of administering the modules. However, Chris Pirillio is releasing Gnomepal. You can read about it here: http://mashable.com/2008/03/27/chris-pirillo-gnomepal-drupal/ It's basically a preconfigured instance of Drupal that enables the modules that most people find useful. Also, some people are using Wordpress to build powerful sites including social networks. I still think it is best used as a blogging platform, but it can be extended to do much more. I have only played with both so I will yield to your much more in depth experiece! When I installed Drupal, it looked like a very basic site, but I installed Joomla, and the default site looked like it was much more advanced. I also found Drupal to be hard to use in terms of administering the modules. However, Chris Pirillio is releasing Gnomepal. You can read about it here:

http://mashable.com/2008/03/27/chris-pirillo-gnomepal-drupal/

It’s basically a preconfigured instance of Drupal that enables the modules that most people find useful.

Also, some people are using WordPress to build powerful sites including social networks. I still think it is best used as a blogging platform, but it can be extended to do much more.

]]> By: BirdOfParadox http://feliciaday.com/blog/super-fail#comment-5187 BirdOfParadox Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:43:29 +0000 http://feliciaday.net/blog/2008/01/17/super-fail/#comment-5187 Anjuan, I've developed two projects for Joomla! and I think their site hierarchy and lack of a good taxonomy system, as well as the nickel-and-dime attitude of the development community, sets it back in spades. The learning curve is pretty steep if you're wanting to develop your own modules for Drupal, but fortunately, the coolest and most robust modules for Drupal have been funded by large companies (like SonyMusic) and been made available to the public, gratis. I initially suggested it because their theme engine and their content templating would give F. the ability to spec out her own design, offer a more robust community for her fans (because let's face it, she's moving up in the world) and give her the ability to fully integrate media into the site in slick (and free) ways. Anjuan,

I’ve developed two projects for Joomla! and I think their site hierarchy and lack of a good taxonomy system, as well as the nickel-and-dime attitude of the development community, sets it back in spades. The learning curve is pretty steep if you’re wanting to develop your own modules for Drupal, but fortunately, the coolest and most robust modules for Drupal have been funded by large companies (like SonyMusic) and been made available to the public, gratis.

I initially suggested it because their theme engine and their content templating would give F. the ability to spec out her own design, offer a more robust community for her fans (because let’s face it, she’s moving up in the world) and give her the ability to fully integrate media into the site in slick (and free) ways.

]]> By: Anjuan http://feliciaday.com/blog/super-fail#comment-5182 Anjuan Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:42:53 +0000 http://feliciaday.net/blog/2008/01/17/super-fail/#comment-5182 Wow, please excuse the typos in my last two posts! I'm doing this on my phone, and it does not have spell check! Wow, please excuse the typos in my last two posts! I’m doing this on my phone, and it does not have spell check!

]]> By: Anjuan http://feliciaday.com/blog/super-fail#comment-5181 Anjuan Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:37:46 +0000 http://feliciaday.net/blog/2008/01/17/super-fail/#comment-5181 Drupal is simply a content management site that lets your create fairly complex web sites without needing to know HTML and also bother with uploading your changes to the web server. You basicallyh edit the site using a web browser. If this sounds like what you do with your blog, then that is because Wordpress is a content management system, too. Drupal is better at building out a full web site that does things like credit card transactions or provide forum support. However, I think the Drupal learning curve is pretty steep, and I have always preferred content management systems like Mambo or Joomla (which is a fork of Mambo). All in all, a good content management system will allow you to set up a professional looking web site with a minimum need to understand the guts of how it works. Although, knowing how to code PHP or Perl helps if you want to do advanced things or troubleshoot errors. Drupal is simply a content management site that lets your create fairly complex web sites without needing to know HTML and also bother with uploading your changes to the web server. You basicallyh edit the site using a web browser. If this sounds like what you do with your blog, then that is because WordPress is a content management system, too. Drupal is better at building out a full web site that does things like credit card transactions or provide forum support. However, I think the Drupal learning curve is pretty steep, and I have always preferred content management systems like Mambo or Joomla (which is a fork of Mambo).

All in all, a good content management system will allow you to set up a professional looking web site with a minimum need to understand the guts of how it works. Although, knowing how to code PHP or Perl helps if you want to do advanced things or troubleshoot errors.

]]> By: BirdOfParadox http://feliciaday.com/blog/super-fail#comment-5179 BirdOfParadox Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:02:07 +0000 http://feliciaday.net/blog/2008/01/17/super-fail/#comment-5179 I understand where you're coming from: I like to maintain self-sufficiency if at all possible. I can't pay good money for someone else to dye my hair when I can do anything short of complicated high/low-lights myself. Eyebrow waxing on the other hand, is an area where I am destined for EPIC DOOM. A professional took several layers of skin off along with my errant eyebrows, so I would be scared to death to do it myself. Now, I get my eyebrows "threaded," which always makes me cry, but I know there won't be open wounds on my face! I understand where you’re coming from: I like to maintain self-sufficiency if at all possible. I can’t pay good money for someone else to dye my hair when I can do anything short of complicated high/low-lights myself. Eyebrow waxing on the other hand, is an area where I am destined for EPIC DOOM. A professional took several layers of skin off along with my errant eyebrows, so I would be scared to death to do it myself. Now, I get my eyebrows “threaded,” which always makes me cry, but I know there won’t be open wounds on my face!

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