Re^2: www.PerlTk.org - The Official Perl/Tk Website

Good! This one will last better than batkins' Tk Wiki which was spammed to smithereens.

That's precisely why I didn't go with a regular wiki. I still receive some spam inquiries via www.perltk.org every now and then, but it's manageable.

I'm curious about which engine you are using to drive the website ...

I'm using Mambo. Recently the core developers of Mambo branched off to create Joomla. Mambo/Joomla is really nice for people who don't want to spend a lot of time tweaking the website. It satisfied my needs. Many people complain that it does too many things. It really depends on how much experience YOU have, and how much time you can afford to spend tweaking the look of your website.

Another, much simpler and IMHO much more elegant, CMS is Drupal. If I had to do things over, I would go with Drupal.

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Re^3: www.PerlTk.org - The Official Perl/Tk Website by rcseege (Pilgrim) on Dec 02, 2005 at 03:17 UTC
I've been checking the site off and on, and have been smiling each time there's been a facelift -- seems like you've been having some fun with the site. Sorry for not taking the time to post anything, yet. I've been meaning to, but continually get sidetracked. I've been thinking of a series of mini-articles that focus on FAQs that I see posted over and over again. Another, much simpler and IMHO much more elegant, CMS is Drupal. If I had to do things over, I would go with Drupal. I know that it's straying a bit off topic, but could you give a few more specifics regarding your comparison of Mambo and Drupal? I remember being impressed initially by Mambo when you first set up the site. Now that you've used it a while, what don't you like about it? Regards, Rob	[reply]
Re^4: www.PerlTk.org - The Official Perl/Tk Website by qumsieh (Scribe) on Dec 02, 2005 at 22:39 UTC
seems like you've been having some fun with the site. More than I'd like to admit :) I still am not 100% satisfied with the site. I would rather find a much simpler and cleaner look for it, but can't find a pre-canned Mambo template that does the trick. Perhaps one day I'll expand my limited HTML/CSS knowledge and design one myself. I've been thinking of a series of mini-articles that focus on FAQs that I see posted over and over again. That would be perfect! could you give a few more specifics regarding your comparison of Mambo and Drupal? Mambo tries to be everything, which is good and bad. It's good because it makes it easy for you to access almost every aspect of the site using a menu-driven interface. It's bad because it just feels too bulky. Very often easy things, that need to be accessed regularly, are buried under a couple of layers of menu-clicks. And comparing it with Drupal, it's slower too. Drupal on the other hand is more minimal. You shouldn't really need to edit files manually, but there are less options than in Mambo, and they're more easily accessible. In summary, comparing Mambo and Drupal is kind of like comparing KDE and Gnome, respectively :)	[reply]