[kdewebdev-site] redesign of the quanta web site

[Carlos Rincón]

Hi

> One of our developers recommended to try Drupal as it has lot of things 
> already implemented. But as I never used it, and nobody volunteered to 
> install and try it out, this remained just a suggestion. So in case of 
> Drupal I'd have some questions:
> - how easy is to install it on Debian?

Umm, i think it's not difficult, like any other linux dist.

> - is it possible to integrate custom PHP pages inside it? For example we 
> have the resources page (quanta.kdewebdev.org/resources.php) which 
> takes some information from a database and I doubt this can be avoided.

Well, it's possible but i think the best was to migrate all to Drupal.
In Drupal you can do the same easily.

There is a huge module list
http://drupal.org/project/Modules/name

> - how would new information be added to that (via web interfaces, or by 
> directly modifying the pages in Quanta as for now and putting the files 
> into the subversion repository).

Via web interface.

> 
> I'm sure these are basic questions, but Drupal and other CMS are just a 
> white area for me: I know nothing about them.

Actually Drupal has a high learning curve but it's very powerful.

> 
> Andras
> 
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