<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Anand Chitipothu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anandology@gmail.com">anandology@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
> This is what is said in the Django FAQ also.<br>
<br>
</div>Be practical. You are asking to write a Django application and start<br>
customizing it by writing code and take the headache of maintaining<br>
it?<br></blockquote><div><br> It is super-easy to write CMS-y applications in Django. I have written<br> one for my personal use (for monitoring investments) at home with my <br> limited knowledge of Django.<br> <br>
I can tell you I enjoyed it. The whole admin module of Django makes<br> maintainence easy.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
>> Setting up Plone and customizing is not very easy. I have tried and<br>
>> gave up. Most Plone sites have a typical plone look and it indicates<br>
>> that it is not easy to customize that. Try comparing number of themes<br>
>> available for Drupal and Plone.<br>
><br>
> It did not look like the <a href="http://scipy.in" target="_blank">scipy.in</a> site is customizable. I registerd as a<br>
> user<br>
> there and there was no user customization options. But perhaps you<br>
> just mean site level customization.<br>
<br>
</div>I'm taking about customizing appearance.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div> Hmmm.... they are running a conf website, aren't they ? <br> Well, I dont want to argue too much but a CMS system is not all<br> about customizing appearance and theming.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">
<br>
</div>The person behind Plone might be a wiz and it might be possible to<br>
build super-powerful websites using Plone. But Drupal beats Plone when<br>
it comes to setting up simple websites like a conference website and<br>
customizing look and feel.<br>
<br>
>From the appearance I can immediately say that <a href="http://www.eiao.net/" target="_blank">http://www.eiao.net/</a> is<br>
running on Plone. It has a typical Plone look. I couldn't say that<br>
<a href="http://scipy.in" target="_blank">scipy.in</a> is running on Drupal just from it look and feel.<br></blockquote><div><br> There is another reason why they chose Plone which you are not <br> aware of and which many people miss when building websites. Plone<br>
is one CMS which is most developer friendly when building accessible<br> websites, which the disabled and blind want to access. Since this project<br> is all about accessibility, they chose it. The developer being a Python wiz<br>
helped, but that is not the main reason, nor is any special love for Python.<br><br> The whole website is keyboard navigable and highly accessible.<br> Also try <a href="http://ws.eiao.net/">http://ws.eiao.net/</a> for a slightly different look and feel, though<br>
I agree it is still "Plone"-ish.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>
Btw, some part or whole of <a href="http://scipy.in" target="_blank">scipy.in</a> is running on Django.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://scipy.in/scope" target="_blank">http://scipy.in/scope</a><br></blockquote><div><br> EOF. Let them run whatever they feel like. I am out of this conversation.<br><br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
Anand<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>--Anand<br><br><br><br>