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I've chosen Drake after testing more than 30 CMS apps (including
wiki's) on localhost and after a test of 5 finalist over remote
host to watch over real conditions.
I've checked
several sources over internet about CMS's and they pay my
attention to the most important topics.
*
Backup and Restore operations Mostly end with a
unstable CMS, character problems for non english lang and
persistence of CMS's for not to "import" A lots of
sites died with their all labours that way.
*
System resource usage It's very important for
people like me who wants to host tons of same CMS's over one
host. Or important for people who dosent want to be kicked out by
hosting company (heard some, funny )
* Last... Database crashes or database query problems
on overheads
So seems it's better to use a
one without a need for 3.party database support. (for folder
based backup) Check out the forums for crying people for
their lost of all site cos of MySql related matters for non
english languages (note: MySql works fine till to the date you want
to restore a backup back)
Then I started to seek for
CMS's with flat file storage. I find many many of them all
together in one site.
Type flat to the database and then select
other criterias of you like WYSIWYG, Online
Administraton, UTF8, etc.
Just keep going to
narrow your criterias till you will have a comprasion chart that
can fit to screen.
And test all challengers one by one
(if you are enough patient like me)
That way and the
tests will take you to Drake like me...
Regards
legolas558
Re : Why Drake? My story to find
31 May 2007 18:59
Anonymous
Very interesting! Thank you for all your feedback!
I
have tried many times to contact the administrators of CMSmatrix
but with no luck...so we cannot update our listing there (now
Drake CMS has more features).
Consider also that Drake
CMS is Beta and is anyway working reasonably,
when it will be Stable we will really see how good it is
transdrake
Re : Why Drake? My story to find
31 May 2007 23:27
Anonymous
Quote:
I have tried many
times to contact the administrators of CMSmatrix but with no
luck...so we cannot update our listing there (now Drake CMS has
more features).
I've noticed that also. Drake is
in better that they index but with one absent thing (that I saw
cos important to me) which is important.
There is two
criterias Online administration (cant live without that) Inline administration (thats also perfect for a dynamic site.
In fact more than perfect)
But Drake and most of other
listed CMS's (even joomla) considered as inline administrative
dosent have this feature.
But this feature is (I
belive) the most important piece of functions that defines a fast
and easy editing CMS.
But there is a perfect (means
easier to code) way to overcome this. The model of creating a
shortcut (I'm sure you know it)
When administrator
logins, small buttons (eg called as EDIT) like print or email
buttons appear on contents (not menus) of site. When you click on
these buttons it takes you directly to the management page of the
related content. So you dont have to make 3 - 5 clicks or
confusions for a beginner like me, and wait for all these pages
to load for editing.
Or even they can open the WYSIWYG
editor over content (you can try a perfect sample of it in ** here ** When logged in click the "turn on
admin" button to see.
Nice but not flat db. But
Drake may catch this.
It needs a database of direct
addresses of contents edit menus in admin panel, and embedd it to
their edit buttons.
Why Drake? My story to find 
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