[BNM] "Converting" a website to Drupal

[Aegir Hallmundur]

ExpressionEngine is pretty good for both kinds of sites too. All the NCsoft
Europe sites (and all of mine) were built with EE.

Just, you know, saying. :)

Aegir

2008/11/19 Steve Purkiss <steve at stevepurkiss.com>

> I would tend to agree - Drupal is a good framework for larger sites
> with lots of functionality, Wordpress with the automatic upgrade
> plugin r0cks for smaller sites.
>
> My good friend Christian Payne's website is a good example of a
> Wordpress site with a magazine style theme:
>
> http://ourmaninside.com
>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Nick Taylor <nick at tangerineworks.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I think I'd definitely recommend wordpress in that case... take a look
> > at the demos in that link I sent. They're pretty good - and open-source.
> >
> > I kindof recommend having a blog in any case. In the words of someone
> > else somewhere at some point (might have been Kevin Rose) "If you're
> > starting a business and you don't have a blog, you're hurting yourself",
> > and I'm inclined to agree.
> >
> > If you are going with drupal then I definitely recommend a copy and
> > paste job rather than a database migration. It will take a fraction of
> > the time and you won't miss any loose-ends on the DB side of things.
> >
> >
> >>> How many pages are you talking about here?
> >>
> >> Not many. There are about 7 main pages (About, Ratecard etc) plus a
> bunch of
> >> portfolio pages, each with one thing on them. I'm sure the best way is
> to
> >> just reinput everything which basically means this question is "can
> anyone
> >> make me a Drupal skin?"
> >>
> >>> you might want to take a look at Wordpress as well
> >>
> >> I had a look at Wordpress... seems more suited to blogging, and most of
> the
> >> WP skins I've seen look a bit like, erm, free software sites, if you
> know
> >> what I mean.  :P But I'll have another look...
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Nick
> >
> > --
> >
> > BNM Subscribe/Unsubscribe:
> > http://www.brightonnewmedia.org/options/bnmlist
> >
> > BNM powered by Wessex Networks:
> > http://www.wessexnetworks.com
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Steve Purkiss
>
> http://stevepurkiss.com
> http://twitter.com/stevepurkiss
> --
>
> BNM Subscribe/Unsubscribe:
> http://www.brightonnewmedia.org/options/bnmlist
>
> BNM powered by Wessex Networks:
> http://www.wessexnetworks.com
>



-- 
Aegir Hallmundur
http://aegir.me/
http://ministryoftype.co.uk/
http://paperpixel.co.uk/