[Glastonbury] website

[tim hall]

Last Saturday 18 September 2004 08:47, Sean Miller was like:
> Just looking at the new version of Mambo... it seems 100% better than the
> old...
>
> Got to work out how to migrate all the stuff from the site into it,
> assuming that we wish to stick with Mambo... I personally quite like it,
> but what do others think?
>
> New version of Mambo demo available here....
>
> http://mamboserver.com/cat/Demo_Site/
>
> Let me know,

Well, I'm developing the opinion that I hate all CMS.
That said Mambo does seem the best option, it's nicer than plone for example.
WIKI works quite well, but uses PHP so it's desperately slow. ;-]

For local personal stuff, I'm using Python + PostgreSQL with pure HTML+CSS 
interfaces. It works well for the relatively simple uses I'm putting it to, 
but it's fast and ultimately customisable. The limitation is my coding skills 
and the amount of time I actually have to develop anything. Give me a couple 
of years and I'll rebuild the LUGoG site ;-).

Rant aside, I think we should stick with Mambo as it seems reasonably 
user-friendly and worth learning to use. If the new version is that much 
better, then let's upgrade. Does it not migrate the data as part of the 
upgrade? poor show if so. I also find WIKI useful for discursive 
documentation and work in progress, I think the lack of standardisation in 
structured text seems to put people off from contributing as every different 
flavour of WIKI does it differently.

*Quietly slips on the asbestos longjohns*

So to sum up:
Moan, moan, moan, moan, moan, yeah alright then. ;-)

cheers

tim hall