A quick migration of a static website to a CMS version was needed. However one of the requirement is that it must be as ‘non-programmer’ as possible since an assigned web designer will be doing the project.
After toying around with Plone, its way too technical and the curve is just too much to even be considered. It is also pretty slow, around 1.3 times slower in a Pentium Celeron with 1GB memory compared to Drupal on a dummy blank site.
So Drupal was next in the list and in fact chosen for the job , however as 2 weeks gone by, it was obvious that what we know about Drupal is in fact largely OVERRATED. There are certain theme layouts that doesn’t appear correctly on different browsers, very limited customization without going to php and way too much work for a non-technical person to get it looking nice, not to mentioned that most sites on Drupal looks similar.
Finally we stumbled upon SiteFinity by SmarterTools, the condition however was that it had to run on IIS but in this case we had no issues with that since the project doesn’t mind whether its IIS or Apache (who the hell going to modify apache code in the name of open source?)
SiteFinity not only blows Drupal to stoneage, more importantly we saved the Web designer guy from committing suicide. For once she was able to get something done.
** there is a community version available free for use
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