{"id":156,"date":"2005-09-10T01:40:01","date_gmt":"2005-09-10T00:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/09\/10\/evaluating-drupal-463\/"},"modified":"2005-09-11T12:29:31","modified_gmt":"2005-09-11T11:29:31","slug":"evaluating-drupal-463","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/evaluating-drupal-463\/","title":{"rendered":"evaluating Drupal 4.6.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally downloaded and installed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drupal.org\">Drupal<\/a> to get an idea if this would be a possible CMS for a small web project I&#8217;m planning to start.  <\/p>\n<p>Installing the basic modules and setting up the MySQL database was straightforward. No problems here.  <\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;m finding more daunting is the CMS interface itself. There are a lot of modules and settings. And it takes some time to grasp the concept and terminology.<\/p>\n<p>For example, it took me a while to figure out how to create a simple menu. I found this <a href=\"http:\/\/drupal.org\/node\/23128\">posting<\/a> that suggested using the so-called <a href=\"http:\/\/drupal.org\/project\/menu_otf\"><strong>Menu on-the-fly<\/strong><\/a> module. I guess, I would have expected this to be part of the basic install. Or maybe there&#8217;s another simple way that I&#8217;m missing.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t had a look at how to change the design of  a theme or how to build my own theme. <\/p>\n<p>Drupal offers a lot of options and additional modules. But at this point I&#8217;m worried that the CMS interface is too complex for the end users I&#8217;m planning for. And probably too much effort to customize for a small web project.     <\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally downloaded and installed Drupal to get an idea if this would be a possible CMS for a small web project I&#8217;m planning to start. Installing the basic modules and setting up the MySQL database was straightforward. No problems here. What I&#8217;m finding more daunting is the CMS interface itself. There are a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1LJxC-2w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}