Joomla migration cancelled

The migration to Joomla has been cancelled. After evaluating the software more thoroughly, I have chosen to stick with Drupal as the content management software. Because I have been unable to upgrade the existing site to the new version of Drupal, I have installed the new version from scratch and will be restoring old content over the course of the next several weeks.

There will be several changes, as well:

  1. Comments will no longer require registration. It’s hard enough to attract people who know me personally to register and post comments, much less strangers. I will be looking at various other spam-protection methods.
  2. Forums will no longer be integrated. Drupal’s forum does not currently suit my needs, so there will be a new forum based on PunBB. Since there was zero activity on the old forum, setting up the new forum will be low on the priority list.
  3. Registered users will not be migrated. Since comments will not require registration, and forums won’t be integrated, the site will not require any sort of registration in order to access any content. This may change in the future.
  4. My blog will no longer be on the front page. I had been meaning to do this for a while anyway; my personal ramblings are decidedly not the focus of this site.

The focus of this site has changed considerably since I first set it up; please be patient as I work on moving things around.


Comments

I was kinda curious what was

I was kinda curious what was happening. I know I have the same frustration: no single one of the common or popular CMS solutions do everything I would like them to do. So far, though, Drupal and Joomla come the closest, with CMS Made Simple somewhere close-by.

I’m still thinking about coding my own solution, since I have some ideas about some new things to try.


We need to talk CMS some

We need to talk CMS some time. I’ve been looking at options in my plans to switch away from Postnuke. I’d been considering Xaraya because of its flexibility, but because of its lack of popularity I was considering switching to Drupal, instead. I didn’t spend much time evaluating Joomla/Mambo based on some stuff I read about that community’s focus, though my ’requirements’ have changed since that time, maybe I should reevaluate it…