[Radiant] Is Radiant right for me?

[Sean Cribbs]

Richard,

Radiant does sound like a good fit.  Simply because a lot of people use 
it for blog software doesn't mean it has to be that.  Take a look at the 
various sites linked from the wiki page called RadiantUsers.  There's a 
lot of sites that use the built-in templates (or modified versions) but 
there are also sites built from scratch.  Radiant does especially well 
with "brochure-ware" sites because of the flexibility given to the 
content designer and its orientation toward mostly-static content.  For 
reference, here are a few sites built by core-team members:

Me: http://kckcc.edu (ignore the design, they screwed it up after I left)
Daniel: http://www.thegroggysquirrel.com/
Loren: http://diopa.org

Cheers,

Sean

Richard Hurt wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> After lurking on the list for a while and checking out the Radiant home page
> I have a question.  I am looking for a lightweight CMS framework for my
> business (KangarooBox.com) to serve up mostly static pages.  I was initially
> going to just use RoR but there are quite a few holes that I might need
> filled in the future (authentication, shopping carts, etc.) so I went in
> search of a framework.  Radiant looks to be what I need but from what I can
> see it really wants to be a blogging engine.  While I will need a blog
> (doesn't everyone :) I don't want to try and force Radiant to do something
> it's not designed for.  So my question is this, is Radiant the thing to use
> on a small commercial website or should it just stick to blogs?
>
> The one major thing I'm looking for right now is some sort of survey
> extension.  I am an old programmer so I could write something but I'm also
> lazy and would rather use someone else's work.  :)  Is there anything like
> that for Radiant?  If not, do you know how hard it would be to create it or
> what other RoR solutions I might try?
>
> Thanx!
>   Richard
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