[thelist] CMS Advice + Sitecheck

[Richard Bennett]

On Thursday 20 January 2005 02:19, Noah St.Amand wrote:
> Thanks everyone for your advice with this. I'm going to go with Drupal.
>
I can thoroughly recommend it. There are a lot of things that work a lot 
better than in PHP Nuke, which was my previous CMS of choice.

I had an urgent call tuesday at 7pm, an error had occured, and the URL for an 
information website had been released at a press conference on national TV, 
but the site didn't exist yet. Could I make the site by wednesday morning?

Well that was stretching it, as I had to reconfigure the DNS, and get hold of 
the login details from the whois contact etc etc, but wednesday at 5pm the 
site went live!
Nothing special mind... but it does what was required.

I did it in Drupal, it is actually 2 drupal installs, one for the french and 
one for the Dutch language site.

The best thing about Drupal must be that you can choose to enter your content 
in PHP or HTML, without needing any buggy plugins like in Mambo.
And it validates xhtml out of the box, barring a wrap attribute used on the 
textareas...
Oh... and the caching function is great too...

Great CMS, I'll be at this years Drupal workshop in Brussels for sure.
Must remember to make a donation too...

This is the site:

http://energielabel.be/
http://labelenergie.be/

Any comments are appreciated,

Cheers,
Richard.