By HashIT on

Hi all,

I'm not a heavy Drupal user (yet), since for my last few projects the Drupal curve would be to steep an costly. I've settled on CMS Made Simple, although it has some drawbacks:

- Smarty based templating
- ADODB as DB abstraction layer ads some rarities in de DB schema
- lack of CMSMS functionality, a lot is borrowed from other OS software
- inconsistent add-on modules (different ways of doing things)

On the other hand it has some very good stuff, that would be worth taking a look at for Drupal (OpenSourceCMS.org page):

- very nice administration interface, ordered by role and tasks
- file and image manager
- module manager, allowing to download and install modules from the browser
- very easy to make a hierarchical website

I'm not saying that Drupal should do it exactly this way, but sometimes looking outside the box leads to new ideas :)

I'm going to convert most of my sites to Drupal, since i18n support is making more progress than CMSMS does and module developement for Drupal seams easier. Also with Drupal 5 it becomes easier to create custom content types.

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vm commented

Drupal has made major advancements in the organizing of the administration area with the 5.0 release.

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HashIT commented

I've noticed, I find it a big improvement and the organisation is indeed similar to the CMSMS way. Missing from Drupal is the eye-candy that is in CMSMS (icons), but I don't find that a showstopper. It does however seem to make non-tech users feel more comfortable using the admin interface.

vm’s picture

vm commented

add the control panel.module into the mix which gives you a way to add the icons. Not sure of the status of that module for 5.x though.

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sepeck commented

I don't find that a 'missing' thing, I find that to be a 'wonderful' thing. :)
Different CMS's fulfill differing needs. With some fancy themeing you can add icon's to your admin interface as well.

-Steven Peck
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