[Web4lib] Drupal & Plon

[Bret Parker]

About the learning curve, it would be misleading to compare Zope to
Plone. Although Plone is built on Zope, from my experience installing
the two (though my Zope install was several years back), there is no
comparison. Plone is a five-minute install and it works out of the box.
That five minutes installs both Zope and Plone and that's that. The Zope
install can be transparent to the administrator (at the outset, at
least). Later there are opportunities, if one chooses, to lift the hood
on Zope. Otherwise most administration is done through the Plone
administration screens.

Customization is where the learning curve exists. 

There are more and more books and other resources to help novices,
however.

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


>>> "Tom Keays" <tomkeays at gmail.com> 8/8/2006 12:24:13 PM >>>
I admire the AADL website and what they've accomplished using Drupal.
Drupal is easy to install and get running but tricky to customize. If
you are using pre-existing modules and themes, there is very little
you have to do to have a working website. But to customize to the
degree that AADL has done, you have a whole world of things to learn,
including designing themes that allow customization, creating new
modules for specialized functionality, and tweaking everything so the
user interface is consistent.

I'd be interested in learning which libraries use Drupal and whether
libraries are sharing their work with each other.

I don't know that much about Plone, but it has a reputation for being
hard to install and work with, because it requires the Python-based
CMS, Zope, as a backbone. I have worked with Zope and it has a long
learning curve.

On 8/7/06, hon hon <k7v339 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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