My outside impressions of Plone aren&#39;t that great. I &quot;just got&quot; Django, even before I&#39;d used it. But even after installing and trying to set up a vanilla site on Plone, I didn&#39;t really understand the need for all the complexity and difficulty to extend.<div>

<br></div><div>I think Django has enough ready-to-go packages that we could put together, so that we don&#39;t really need a monolithic turnkey system. I think the advantages of easy customisation/development far outweigh the disadvantages of not having an instant shrink-wrapped system.</div>

<div><br></div><div>A good comparison would be SVG filters vs. Xara LX&#39;s prefabricated effects. Except that Xara&#39;s effects are actually easy to deploy &amp; use, whereas Plone isn&#39;t always.</div><div><br></div>

<div> - Bryan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:36, Terry Brown <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:terry_n_brown@...36...">terry_n_brown@...36...</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:56:25 -0600<br>
Terry Brown &lt;<a href="mailto:terry_n_brown@...36...">terry_n_brown@...360...36...</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
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&gt; +1 for Django<br>
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Thinking about it, I should just qualify my previous note a bit.  As a python web app. framework I think Django is great.  As a content management system (CMS) / community site system I think Plone and I suspect Drupal are more mature / feature complete.  I&#39;m using django-cms and I really like it for developing a website which looks like a &quot;regular website&quot;, i.e. doesn&#39;t present itself as a community site with members and postings.  I&#39;ve used Plone for more &quot;community driven&quot; sites, and it&#39;s been kind of a PITA because when things don&#39;t work / need tweaking it takes forever to work out how (although I&#39;m sure it&#39;s only a learning curve issue, no doubt Plone is very easy for Plone gurus).  But it does have a full set of features and a non-tech. friendly interface.<br>


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There are django plugins for blogs / wikis / message boards etc. etc. but I don&#39;t think there&#39;s a single install turnkey system like you get with Plone (despite my not liking it) and I think Drupal (which I don&#39;t really know).<br>


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Cheers -Terry<br>
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