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

[Daniel Caleb Thompson]

i would vote for wordpress too -- especially because i know how to mod, hook
and administer.

Daniel Caleb Thompson
http://bauhauslab.org
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says. "So why did you come in here for nothing?" "Because nothing is better
than a dry martini."


On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Jamie Wilkinson <jamie at tramchase.com>wrote:

> 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>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>
> 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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