[KLUG Members] CMS Systems

[Bruce Smith]

> > > I think what you should look into is Drupal. www.drupal.org
>
> I've brought up two drupal sites - http://www.whitemice.org/ - and -
> http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com/

OK, I converted my site to Drupal.   http://www.reddog.org/
(It's Drupal only after you get past the intro page :)

I was going for a different look/feel/layout than the standard blog'ish,
slashdot'ish layout which seems to be the default.  I also converted
most of my previous gallery pages to fit into the Drupal scheme.  
(I still have a couple that still need to be fixed)

> I'm still learning the ins-and-outs of how every piece is related but so
> far I am pretty happy.  The documentation was good enough and the

I found the install documentation to be good, and the install went
fairly easily.  But I'm NOT impressed with the setup/admin/configuration
documentation.  At least I wasn't able to find any of the non-standard
stuff that I'm doing (navigation menus) in the docs.  I reverted to
trial & error to figure out all of my configuration and setup.  Once I
figured that out, everything went smoothly.

> package straight-forward enough that I was able to get this all setup
> and running in a CentOS installation (in VMware) on my laptop while
> sitting on a rock overlooking lake Huron.  No googling or Internet
> access required.  Then when I got home it was a
> pg_dump...scp...pg_restore to a 'real' CentOS box sitting in my basement
> and I was online.

I had mine running in a hidden subdirectory on my web site before I let
it "go live".  It let me develop it privately while my old site
continued to run for the rest of the world.  Also easy to do.

 - BS