![]() ![]() Not only did I create the first version of this website in just a day but it has a built in blog function. And it damn near overkilled us.Ĭlearly Joomla! and Drupal were not the ways to go.Īnd then I discovered Sandvox. Furthermore, the CSS required to make even a simple web page work was overkill. Nor can you use a single instance of Joomla! to create multiple web sites. ![]() There was no apparent way to handle a development and live version of the web site without complex procedures. And this is just to create a minimalist web site!Īnd you cannot even just move the web site from one server to another - you have to hassle with both the data files and the SQL database and perform a multi-step ritual to move the web site around. But dudes, really! To use it you have to learn Joomla! (no surprise there), but then you also have to know CSS, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, Apache, some GoDaddy rituals, and, oh, yeah, mySQL. I'm sure it has its followers, its devotees, its gurus, and its cognoscenti. Massively overdesigned for the task at hand. Complex web sites need complex design tools, but.whoof. And we concluded that it was massively overcomplicated, arcane, and fit only for those in the priesthood who wanted to devote their lives to it. My colleague and I, with a total of over 80 years of systems programming experience between us, had a close look at Drupal. I've just spent several weeks and several hundred dollars of consulting fees, flogging a dead horse in order to create a simple, elegantly designed web site.įirst we tried Drupal. I just happened to find it on the Internet in a place that suggested it was not copyrighted and it seemed to convey the appropriate sentiment to what might be wrong with the world of technology. I have absolutely no idea what the back story is for this image. Blogging a Dead Horse Andy Johnson-Laird Sunday December 9, 2013 ![]()
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