Best canned web sites at this time

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Sep 4, 2008, at 12:16 AM, James McDonald wrote:

> Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>>
>> I need to set up static website. I am curious what the current  
>> favorite environments for this are.
>> What I am looking for is something that has some site templates set  
>> up, perhaps offers skins.
>> Probably php based. It would be preferable if it used something  
>> like sqlite, if needed, instead of mysql.
>> This site is mainly for internal use, but will have parts available  
>> for things like sharing files. I
>> used to keep up with this sort of thing before. At that time I was  
>> a plone zealot. I still like plone,
>> but I do not have the time to fiddle with it. I remembered PHPNuke  
>> as being interesting. But
>> I also recall that there were some pretty advanced tools for this.  
>> Names escape me. Any pointers?
>>
> As far as providing good templating Joomla and Drupal are great but  
> fail the SQLlite test.

My first impression is that Joomla is a bit more advanced. At least,  
it seems they have kept the
data and layout separate. How well, I guess I will find out. I will be  
trying it.

I am hoping to make an MSQL-free system. Nothing political about  
current ownership. I just like
the idea of an application keeping it's own data. I am sure if I did  
this for my job or on a larger
scale, I would love a central database. Makes backup easier if all  
apps keep their data in some
predictable place. It was not a strong requirement.

Roger Oberholtzer

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