Hi, Karen, my own experience with Drupal is, you need to keep it updated.
For anyone building with Drupal, I hear tell [1] the best practice these
days is to use DRUSH (Drupal Shell) to provision and deploy your site...
Keeps upgrades nice and smooth.

Also, my experience has been, for small projects, Wordpress makes a very
nice CMS, and is hugely popular as a CMS [2].

Two other alternatives for you to consider in the lightweight CMS category
are TextPattern [3] and SilverStripe [4]. But really, there are good
reasons Wordpress is winning this fight. See [2] for details.

[1] discerning readers will note the vagueness of this recommendation, it
comes secondhand from someone who maintains Drupal sites on something
other than RHEL5. Ubuntu Server, I believe. Long story short, DRUSH is
handy, if you can get it to run on your OS. http://www.drush.org/
[2] 
http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/29/wordpress-cms-crown-drupal-joomla
[3] http://textpattern.com/
[4] http://www.silverstripe.org/

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On 12/14/11 8:54 AM, "Karen Coyle" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Thanks, Dave and Mark -- this is exactly what I needed to hear. The
>"folks" are one of those extremely poor non-profits with almost no
>staff and zero technical skills. A consulting company is pushing them
>in this direction saying that Drupal is buggy and WordPress is ...
>well, I don't know. Dang! I hate being in the middle of this. I still
>think they'd be better off going with one of the "known" CMS packages.
>
>kc
>
>Quoting "Walker, David" <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> Are your 'folks' looking for a content management system, Karen?
>>
>> As Mark just mentioned, CodeIgniter is a web application development
>> framework -- that is, a set of reusable programming code that makes
>> it easier for programmers to build applications for the web.  The
>> key terms there being "programmers" and "build."
>>
>> That is a very different kind of thing from  Drupal or WordPress,
>> which are systems (that have already been built) to manage content
>> for a website.  You don't have to be a programmer to use either of
>> those.
>>
>> --Dave
>> -----------------
>> David Walker
>> Library Web Services Manager
>> California State University
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
>> Of Mark Jordan
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 6:08 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Experience with codeIgniter?
>>
>> Karen,
>>
>> I used CI for a project last summer, and thought it was easy to
>> learn if you had done some PHP programming before and were familiar
>> with MVC architecture, well documented, and had a fairly rich
>> feature set. However, my impression is that it had a very small
>> plugin/module ecosystem compared to Drupal or Wordpress. Before
>> recommending it, you should review the categories under
>> 'Contributions' at http://codeigniter.com/wiki to see if you can
>> identify any glaring holes. But, overall, I'd say it's a pretty good
>> PHP MVC framework (not that I've compared a lot of them).
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> Mark Jordan
>> Head of Library Systems
>> W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British
>> Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada
>> Voice: 778.782.5753 / Fax: 778.782.3023 / Skype: mark.jordan50
>>[log in to unmask]
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> I'm helping some folks find a new platform for their web site, and
>>> someone has suggested codeIgniter as being simpler than Drupal or
>>> Wordpress. Anyone here have anything to say about it, good or bad? The
>>> site is small and light weight but it does have a database that needs
>>> to be managed.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> kc
>>>
>>> --
>>> Karen Coyle
>>> [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net
>>> ph: 1-510-540-7596
>>> m: 1-510-435-8234
>>> skype: kcoylenet
>>
>
>
>
>-- 
>Karen Coyle
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>ph: 1-510-540-7596
>m: 1-510-435-8234
>skype: kcoylenet