Re: PGDN and Bricolage.

Gevik,

Please do not misunderstand me. I have reviewed various systems for
my work at Rice University, not with regards to the PostgreSQL website
re-do. In my review, I ranked systems higher with regards to two main
criteria:

1. The ability to support very high traffic web sites and provide
a simple way to setup mirror sites.
2. The ability to provide a level of abstraction that would allow
non-web/HTML savvy individuals to produce quality content.
3. The ability to update to new styles and layout easily using
existing content.

These goals allow the content generation to be separated from the
display/design process and make all our content writers more productive
as a result. I do think that these goals make sense for the postgresql.org
site as well.

Ken

On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 09:36:41PM +0200, Gevik babakhani wrote:
> Ken,
>
> It is nice to know that this is been investigated before. I guess it will
> save us time again.
>
> Regards,
> Gevik.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kenneth Marshall [mailto:ktm(at)is(dot)rice(dot)edu]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 9:29 PM
> > To: Gevik babakhani
> > Cc: 'Josh Berkus'; 'Robert Treat'; 'Rod Taylor'; 'Joshua D. Drake'; 'Dave
> > Page'; pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] PGDN and Bricolage.
> >
> > Gevik,
> >
> > In my review of open source CMS products, Drupal was also one of
> > the products we evaluated. I concur with your assessment that it
> > is powerful and easy to use. Its drawback with regards to our use
> > and I suspect to its use in postgresql.org is that the CMS must
> > run on the web presentation engine. This implies that much more
> > horsepower and configuration expertise would be required to host
> > the content and to mirror the content to other sites. Drupal is
> > not alone in this regard but the ability of Bricolage to publish
> > to any web site using any dynamic or static presentation engine
> > is ideal for mirroring and documentation. In fact, one of my goals
> > is to burn a static tree to DVD for DR using the multiple output
> > channel capabilities of Bricolage (or to a Pdf...).
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 09:12:32PM +0200, Gevik babakhani wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > Parallel to Bricollage experimentation, I am also experimenting with
> > drupal
> > > (http://www.drupal.org)
> > >
> > > >From what I could find out up until now, it is a very powerful, easy to
> > use
> > > and customize CMS both in front-end and back-end.
> > >
> > > The experiment is being done on http://pgdn.truesoftware.net
> > >
> > > Regrads,
> > > Gevik.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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