"Justin French" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Tuesday, January 27, 2004, at 04:23 PM, Al wrote: > > > This is one of the most frequently asked questions about the LAMP > > platform. > > A fantastic site that offers a comparison of all the different open > > source > > CMS systems out there and lets you test drive them all is > > http://www.opensourcecms.com/ . I highly recommend it. > > But chances are you'll try them all out, and still decide that there's > nothing to suit your needs (without being a bloated mess) and decide to > roll your own :) > > Justin
So true. Everytime I sit down to choose a CMS for a project I usually go through the following steps: 1) Write down spec and design for the CMS ... which is usually simple and mundane except for one slightly unusual requirement. 2) Do some initial research and become excited by the dozens of open source CMS systems promising to cut my development time by 80%. 3) Realise that none of the simple CMS platforms can handle my one unusual requirement. Consider hacking it in, but realise just how much I hate having to work with other people's code ... espcially on big apps like CMSs with steep learning curves. Go back and do some more research. 4) Find a mothership CMS (e.g. ezpublish) that can handle my one unusual requirement, and could probably iron my shirts as well, but I run away when I realise I'll only use 3% of it's functionality but have to maintain and serve up CPU cycles for 100% of its code. 5) Start writing my own CMS. Al -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
