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

[Steve Lambert]

Ah yes, good point. The old did run rather slow...

Any arguments for Drupal? Opinions at all?


Steve

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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
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>
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>
>
> 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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