[HLUG] question during wednesday's lug meeting answered ..

[Ben Proctor from the likeaword consultancy]

I've been playing about with Ghost. It's a lot of fun and node is really
powerful and flexible. Ghost isn't really ready for deployment in the real
world imho and anyway doesn't support static pages making it pretty limited
for websites rather than blogs. There are some really interesting projects
around node though.

I agree with the general discussion here. WP is easy to fire up, widely
supported and easy to configure for simple instances. The underlying
codebase is a bit of a pig and not everyone wants to work in PHP but for
most uses you don't need to get into that at all.

Ghost and the whole node.js area is one to watch though...

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On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Julian Robbins <joolsr1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Why do you say 'If I were
> starting a website from scratch today (which I wouldn't)' does this imply
> you would use a different tool? or that you would just get a third party to
> do it instead? If it's a different tool what would you use? There are
> lighter site applications like Ghost these days and node.Js.
>
> Julian
> On 25 Apr 2014 22:29, "Keith Edmunds" <kae at midnighthax.com> wrote:
>
> > I don't really know much about web development, to be honest. These days,
> > all the major CMS platforms are easy(-ish) to use, good SEO, responsive
> > themes are available, and so on. I think WordPress has the edge over
> > Joomla and Drupal for ease of day to day use (ie, editing text rather
> than
> > web design), and certainly there are some powerful plugins. If I were
> > starting a website from scratch today (which I wouldn't), I'd probably
> > use WordPress, but that's more a reflection of my experience using it
> than
> > a considered viewpoint. For the same reasons, I wouldn't use Joomla.
> > Drupal comes across as powerful but not so widely used. That isn't
> > necessarily a bad thing other than to observe that if you have a website
> > problem to solve, you're more likely to find that someone has already
> > solved it in WordPress.
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