Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] Good drupal hosting?

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In Wordpress I dont have any editor -- just switched it off in my settings.
SO now i have a plain textarea where I type in my own formatting (usually
just links) and I have no complaints about wordpress editing.

On 7/18/07, Sarah Gray <sa...@fa...> wrote:
>
> Let me add that I blog with Wordpress and the more I blog with it, the
> more annoyed I get and the more I think "I'm going to look into
> switching to something else *because I hate this*". Why? I find their
> editing area (the actual text box where you enter your blog content) to
> be *maddeningly* inconsistent with formatting.    I've worked with this
> on 3 blogs and do not see any lasting results from setting the default
> setting to "code view" (or "design view" for that matter).  It seems to
> whimsically reformat valid (x)html as it pleases, even in so-called
> "code view".  And I've tried a lot of things here, so I'm not saying
> this from one bad experience.
>
> I don't know if movabletype is better, but I do know that I'm going to
> check it out as an alternative.  I also have a friend who blogs w/drupal
> (hence my original post) who seems quite happy with it.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Gale Armour wrote:
> > Thanks so much for that clairification Larry!
> >
> > I guess I will look into Drupal then!
> >
> > Thanks Again!
> > Gale
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Larry Garfield" <la...@ga...>
> > To: <chi...@li...>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 11:15 PM
> > Subject: Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] Good drupal hosting?
> >
> >
> > WordPress is strictly a blogging application.  It's a fairly good one,
> and
> > popular, but it's a blogging application.
> >
> > Drupal is a full-on CMS/Content Management Framework.  It can be used
> for a
> > blog (I use it for that as do thousands of other people), but can also
> be
> > used for building web sites, web applications, online communities, etc.
> >
> > I am biased since I am a Drupal developer and use Drupal professionally
> in
> > my
> > day job. :-)  However, I would also recommend Drupal over WordPress
> because
> > Drupal was a founding member of the GoPHP5 project[1], while Matt
> Mullenweg,
> > WordPress' lead developer, is still ranting about how no one needs PHP 5
> and
> > WordPress shouldn't move to it, even though the PHP development team has
> > announced that PHP 4 has less than six months left to live.  (No further
> > releases after the end of this year.)  (Yes, I am biased in that, too.
> <g>)
> >
> > [1] http://gophp5.org/
> >
> > On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Gale Armour wrote:
> >
> >> Just curious, I had not heard of Drupal before this thread, how does it
> >> compare to WordPress
> >> which I was just getting ready to install.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Gale Armour
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Keith Casey" <mai...@ca...>
> >> To: "Nola Stowe" <mrn...@gm...>
> >> Cc: "chiphpug-discuss" <chi...@li...>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 11:34 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] Good drupal hosting?
> >>
> >> On 7/17/07, Nola Stowe <mrn...@gm...> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I use drupal on Dreamhost with no problem.
> >>>
> >> +1 to Dreamhost... I run about 14-15 Drupal sites with them currently
> >> using both Drupal 4.7 and 5.1 on their PHP4 and PHP5 configs.
> >>
> >> keith
> >> --
> >> D. Keith Casey Jr.
> >> CEO, CaseySoftware, LLC
> >> http://CaseySoftware.com
> >>
> >>
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