My sincere response: You are the Chef. Please base your choice on what you
will have to live with. We will survive; even if there is a little pain.
Thank you for all you do.
Rick
On Mar 30, 2015 2:12 PM, "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> OK, so here is the deal. www.zone-10.com is being rebuilt for a brave
> new world. Has to happen. Mambo is toast and performance is horrible.
>
> Three choices. I've been working with all three and they all have
> benefits and problems.
>
> 1. Wordpress. Not NEARLY as flexible, but fast to use and there are
> more content add tools that make life simpler. Works well for adaptive
> websites. Adding content is bog simple. Unfortunately, organizing that
> content is bad. Really bad.
>
> 2. Joomla. Very flexible. Reasonably fast to use, but fewer content
> add tools. Unfortunately, it is not nearly as good for adaptive
> websites. Biggest problem is the content editor which constantly
> fights you for text formatting. Best menuing system of the three.
> Content addition is aweful.
>
> 3. Drupal. I've been waiting forever for Drupal 8, which is native to
> adaptive websites. But it's more of a bear to administrate. Content
> addition is a head-scratcher. Somewhere between Wordpress and Joomla,
> but without the intelligence.
>
> Of the three, Joomla has the very best content organization and
> menuing system. I find that the adaptave template (Purity III) is gut
> wrench for configuring. So bad, in fact, that I'm having to literally
> wipe things out to redo it to fix all my junk fixes. Drupal is the
> most efficient of the three and gives the fastest website performance.
> But it is so hard to get configured that my fear is that it will never
> get done. As Joomla is a branch off of Mambo, it's natural for me to
> just keep going that direction.
>
> I've setup three parallel systems. Worked with all three. I am finding
> that I enjoy using Wordpress a whole lot more than the other two. But
> it just lacks the oomph to get all of the various aspects. My website
> needs to be three-fold: Reviews/Reference, Products and Services, and
> Photography "blog". I can get it to do any one very well, but not all
> three together.
>
> So, here is my thought. I can create several individual websites that
> "look" like they are one, but in reality, I would have a shell website
> that then menu links to the other three. They would be indentical in
> every way, but the only thing that changes is the fact that you are
> jumping from one database to the next. With Joomla and Drupal, I can
> keep everything in one, and if push comes to shove, I can also do that
> with Wordpress, but I'd have to vastly decrease the scope of the
> website, which might not be that bad of an idea, anyway.
>
> On a positive note, thanks to adsense revenue, the site is paying its
> own lightbill. I'd like to get it to pay for more than that and the
> key there is fresh content. With Wordpress, I'll be able to provide
> fresher content than the others. Also, with Wordpress, the
> advertisements position themselves a LOT better than with the others.
>
> Regardless of what I do, the one HUGE change is that every page will
> have a fixed page name/address. Yeah!!! That will make it a lot better
> for linking and SEO.
>
> Thoughts?
>
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> Ken Norton
> ken@xxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.zone-10.com
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