[ILUG-Cochin.org] Wordpress for website

[Sameer Mohamed Thahir]

On Monday 16 February 2009 01:45 PM, Mathew Chacko wrote:
> How about Drupal? Drupal has out of the box solution for Blogging, 
> Forums, Books etc. Which is good for community building.
Yeah Drupal is a great CMS.
>
> - Forums can be used for support and discussions and mailing list only 
> for announcements and decisions.
>
> - Books can be used for if any one wants to write support materials etc.
Yes, But wordpress offers better in terms of convenience in 
administration and content updation,
which is the need of the hour.

Besides I think wordpress can use modules to achieve the above mentioned 
functionality.
>
> Best
> Mathew

Thank You


Regards
Sameer Mohamed Thahir
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Roshin Roy <roshin at roshin.com 
> <mailto:roshin at roshin.com>> wrote:
>
>     I think the design should change if it could be done. Wordpress
>     definitely
>     is the best bet.
>     Regards
>     Roshin Roy
>
>
>     On 16/02/09 7:24 AM, "Sameer Mohamed Thahir"
>     <sameer.thahir at gmail.com <mailto:sameer.thahir at gmail.com>>
>     wrote:
>
>     > Hello All,
>     >
>     > Its been quite a while since we swtiched over to mambo cms
>     > for our website www.ilug-cochin.org <http://www.ilug-cochin.org>
>     but it has not been that
>     > easy maintaining the website.
>     >
>     > being one of the most active user groups in India, we havent been
>     > able to reflect to activity in our website always.
>     >
>     > I believe that mambo although flexible, has somewhat a complicated
>     > interface which prevents us from quickly creating content.
>     >
>     > What we require is something that can give us a quick means of
>     > creating lot of content. Also considering the fact that
>     > the active members are growing busy day by day.
>     >
>     > And I think wordpress is a great alternative,
>     >
>     > What do you all say
>     >
>     > We do not have much time since the name and website look
>     > need to change at the same time.
>     >
>     >
>     > Thank You
>     >
>     > Regards
>     > Sameer Mohamed Thahir
>     >
>     >
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