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										On 10/3/06, Tim Beadle <tim.beadle at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 03/10/06, Dan Efergan <dan at subsubskills.co.uk> wrote:
> > What are people's favorite Open Source CMS's.  Is Drupal the one?
> > I've had a look though Open CMS but thought to get a bit of real
> > world feedback.


I have real world experience with Plone and Drupal. Plone is better for
large scale, complex deployments and scales better, but *does* need some
expertise to do anything other than basic customisation, plus more
specialist hosting.

Drupal can be figured out by most people with a bit of php/mysql, seems fine
although does seem very basic compared to plone - i'd hate to have to use it
for some of the more complex things we've done with plone (e.g complex
workflow, multi language etc), as it is more of a community tool rather than
a heavyweight CMS like plone.

this drupal v plone discussion is worth looking at - in particular this
reply from one of the plone developers:-

http://drupal.org/node/13733#comment-21790


> I guess end purpose is quite important, I'd love to find a Compliant
> > (No god damn tables) CMS with a Client friendly back-end.  Any
> > suggestions?
>
> Good luck. Minimal googling seemed to indicate that all the major CMSs
> have incredibly poor usability.



obviously at this point I have to mention that Plone is compliant out of the
box to WAI-AA and section 508. It also scores well for usability - the lead
designer has just been hired by google as a usability guru (on the condition
he can spend one day a week developing Plone).

Plone ships with a tableless skin as a switchable option, but the default
skin uses a single table for columns, which in the real world most people
actually seem to prefer/ not notice.

-- 
Rick Hurst, Web developer, Bristol, England
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