[add-art dev] Drupal vs. Wordpress for Add-Art site

[alyssa wright]

I agree. . . Its been hard to support the updates without much background in
wordpress.  Considering people's knowledge in the area it makes a lot of sense
to move it over to wordpress.

Steve, let me know what I can do to help.  Things have begun to settle down.

Best,
Alyssa.

Quoting Jamie Wilkinson <jamie at tramchase.com>:

> I'd vote WP, largely because so many of us have experience w/ it and  
> it can definitely do at least the basic version of everything we  
> require. Plus it's easier to get others started running their own  
> "gallery" on WP
>
> Drupal's strict image requirements is nice, but it'll be deprecated 
> by  the auto-sizing tool (or just vigilant admins)
>
> -jamie dubs
>
> On May 30, 2009, at 6:07 PM, Steve Lambert wrote:
>
>> Ah yes, good point. The old did run rather slow...
>>
>> Any arguments for Drupal? Opinions at all?
>>
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> P.S. I typrd tgis on my phpne!
>> --
>> http://visitsteve.com
>>
>> On May 30, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Daniel Caleb Thompson 
>> <daniel.thompson at galerie-eigenheim.de > wrote:
>>
>>> there is one more con to drupal:
>>>
>>> server overhead. once you are using a few custom views and more  
>>> than 10plugins the site (even when cached) really slows down...
>>>
>>> Daniel Caleb Thompson
>>> http://bauhauslab.org
>>> +49 (0) 15 202 409 809
>>>
>>> A man walks into a bar. The bartender asks him what he wants.  
>>> "Nothing," he says. "So why did you come in here for nothing?"  
>>> "Because nothing is better than a dry martini."
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Steve Lambert  
>>> <steve at visitsteve.com> wrote:
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> Just wanted to open some discussion I've been having with a few of  
>>> you about possibly moving the Add-Art site to wordpress.  Thanks to 
>>>  Alyssa and some help here at Eyebeam we've got drupal updated to  
>>> the latest version but there's still a lot of work to get it where  
>>> we need it. Here's some thoughts, please add yours and we'll figure 
>>>  out which way to go.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>> Drupal:
>>> Pros
>>> - Allows us to create super custom forms that ensure we get the  
>>> right size images.
>>> - Potential to code out features that will help (someday) fully  
>>> automate add-art.
>>> - It's running an kinda gets the job done - though we need to do  
>>> some work to get the old galleries to display
>>>
>>> Cons:
>>> - No one on our team knows it really well
>>> - usability for people approaching it cold is tricky.
>>> - updates are labor intensive.
>>>
>>> Wordpress:
>>>
>>> Pros
>>> - a lot of us know it very well
>>> - more users will be already familiar with it and usability  
>>> barriers are lower
>>> - greg is hot to code the redesign in WP
>>>
>>> Cons
>>> - not as extensible. Could hit limits
>>> - potentially less able to fully automate add-art
>>>
>>>
>>> Misc:
>>> If our new goal is to take feeds, maybe automating the whole  
>>> process is a lower priority.
>>>
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