[Web4lib] Drupal & Plone

[Lawrence Milliken]

I've been working on a redesign of our library website using Plone and
have really liked working with it.  The learning curve for the
developer, if you are doing much customization, is kinda steep but for
most normal user Plone is easy to work with.

If you want to write custom products it helps if you have access to
someone with a little Python but you can teach yourself too if you have
to.  And the developer community is extremely helpful.  

It is also caches and proxies behind Apache very well, which you would
definitely want to do for production.  An company called Enfold has a
well regarded Windows installer and proxy server for Plone as well but I
run my Plone site on Ubuntu so I haven't tried the Windows stuff
myself.

A demo version (striped of almost all references to my current
employer) of what I've been working on is available at
http://www.butterflysmack.com:9080/Plone if you'd want to take a
look.  It is on a friend's test server and is unoptimised (i.e. slow). 
Hopefully the real production version will be up at my school sometime
this year (the issues with it are political not technical, btw).

>>> "Bret Parker" <Bret.Parker at ci.stockton.ca.us> 08/08/06 11:50 AM
>>>
We run Plone for an intranet. No experience with Drupal -- only
attended
a session on it at Internet Librarian. Based on that I formed an
opinion.

Depends on how much customization you want to do and what other needs
you might have, as well as what staff resources you have to invest in
it.

For the time we have (had) to invest in it (not much), Plone is OK. If
you have little time and your customization needs are minimal,
consider
Plone, particularly if you like the out-of-the-box look of it. But I
would hasten to add that customization is possible and can greatly
change the appearance and functionality.

Because we have not used Plone on our public-facing web site, this
reply is of limited usefulness, unless you have more specific
questions
about Plone.



Bret Parker, Senior Applications Programmer Analyst (MLIS)
Stockton-San Joaquin County Public Library
City of Stockton (California)
bret.parker at ci.stockton.ca.us 
(209) 937-7148

http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us 


>>> hon hon <k7v339 at yahoo.com> 8/7/2006 7:51 PM >>>
Hi All, 

I am wondering if anybody has some experieneces with
Drupal and Plone. Currently, we are trying to build a
website based upon some open source CMS such as Drupal
and Plone. So far I only know that the Ann Arbor
District Library http://www.aadl.org/ is using Drupal.


Could somebody shed some light on this? Which one is
better, Drupal or Plone, according your experience.
You might have other recommendations as well. 

Thanks, 
Hongbin

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