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[Aaron Deutsch]

I'm just starting with drupal 5.x    Did you add the fckeditor module to the
text editors?   (Allowing you MS Word style buttons)




On 2/9/07, Hans C. Kaspersetz <hans at cyberxdesigns.com> wrote:
>
> Halter, Shari wrote:
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > I am not familiar with Joomla, but I wonder how it would compare at the
> > front end?
> >
>
> My group has been customizing and installing Joomla for a couple of
> years.  It offers inline editing using a wysiwig.  It has it quirks but
> works very well for our customers.  We usually write a small manual that
> summarizes the full Joomla manual and covers just the features the
> customer will be using.  And we customize the administrative interface
> to remove access to the nasty bits the users may not need.  Joomla does
> create some ugly URLS and the templating is nav driven, so these can be
> headaches also.  You can access the same piece of content through more
> then 1 URL even if that URL is not defined in the navigation.  This can
> be a problem for some and needs to be considered.  If you install
> Joomla, take some time to download and read the manual.  It is very
> helpful.  Ahh!!!  One more thing.  1 piece of content can only be
> categorized into one Section/Category.  This can be a problem if a piece
> of content should truly be in categorized in two places at once.   This
> can be handled creatively.
>
> I would strongly recommend avoiding contribute.   It is like an evil
> pink Cool-Aide.  It scales very very poorly.   The template control
> system is awful.  If you want to make a change to a main navigational
> element through Contribute, it will download every page and make the
> change.  The process of downloading, updating and uploading hundreds or
> thousands of pages takes a long time and is failure prone.  Nothing in
> contribute is database driven, it is purely file driven.  It is nice for
> the first 10-25 pages of a site.  Beyond that and thing get very
> difficult to manage.
>
> Just my $.02.
>
> Hans K
>
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