[Linux-disciples] database design question

[Jamie Forrest]

Joomla seems pretty great. I've been playing around with a test  
install on my localhost and it's really powerful and very well  
designed. Kicks Drupal's butt. and there seem to be a lot of  
extensions that you can use for setting up social networking stuff.

http://joomla.org/

On Feb 6, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Stephen R Laniel wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:40:21AM -0500, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
>> Most CMS's are on steroids. I was assuming you wanted to do a  
>> filesystem
>> as a pedagogical exercise. If that's not the case, you definitely
>> shouldn't bother with it. I would start with ZOPE because I know you
>> have objects in your blood. Figuratively.
>
> I despise Zope. I would advise anyone against using it for
> anything complicated.
>
> If your needs are simple, though, Zope is fine. Just use
> Plone out of the box. But building large-scale systems with
> Zope sucks. I tried. I will never do it again. It is old and
> crufty.
>
> A very smart colleague of mine advised me against using
> CMSes if I can at all avoid it. So there may be a larger
> "what are you after" question here, namely: why do you need
> a CMS?
>
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