[Radiant] RadiantCMS, Maple Leaf Web Project

[Sean Cribbs]

Ruben D. Orduz wrote:
>
> * Comments/Feedback system. (which I beleive was mentioned in the 
> presentation @ RubyCon).
>
<shameless self promotion>
It has that already, albeit a somewhat kludgy implementation.  Check out 
Commentable on the wiki under ThirdPartyBehaviors.
</shameless self promotion>

Sean Cribbs
seancribbs.com

> On 10/27/06, *Greg Farries* <greg at mapleleafweb.com 
> <mailto:greg at mapleleafweb.com>> wrote:
>
>     Erik Mallinson wrote:
>     > I disagree with Ruben - the point of Radiant isn't to mature to be
>     > like Drupal, Joomla! or Typo3; the point of Radiant is that it's
>     > mature to exercise restraint. Radiant is for small groups of people
>     > to manage a straight forward site.
>
>     Well, in terms of Maple Leaf Web, we have a very small team of
>     writers/editors.  Including the following
>
>     Admin (myself)
>     Senior Editor (4)
>     Managing Editor (1)
>     Content Manager (2)
>     Writers (4)
>
>     The Senior editors, and writers won't even need access to the CMS,
>     only
>     myself, the managing editor and the content manager need to be able to
>     add/edit content.  So I think this definitely falls into the small
>     team/group class.
>
>     > I think it depends on what you want. If you want to have the site
>     > feature the articles, Radiant is great for a site like that, (imho)
>     > better than Drupal. If you want to add polls, forums, and other
>     > community features, you should probably go with Drupal.
>
>     Essentially, all I need the CMS to do is manage the features we
>     produce.
>     The Weblog, Forum, sections will all be controlled by third party
>     software.
>     Weblog will use Wordpress, the forum will be PunBB.
>
>     > Why? Because Drupal was overkill. I spent most of the time
>     > turning off features and dealing with 'the way it is' than with the
>     > content itself.
>
>     I agree, and this is why I initally looked at using
>     Wordpress.  Wordpress is
>     almost what I need, as it doesn't complicate the process with a
>     bunch of
>     features almost no one uses.
>
>
>
>     >
>     > So if you're going to keep the forums and polls separate I don't
>     see
>     > why you couldn't use Radiant.
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