The After the Mouse Site...

For a while now I have been looking at an alternative to the laboriously hand coded site I was building to house the ex Cast Member community.
I wanted a bespoke hand built solution, something special… but good grief its hard to keep that sort of quality scalable and able to cope perfectly with an ever expanding member base. So I have gone in search of a content management system, a CMS in the parlance.
I have experimented with a solution called ELGG, which on the surface offered an ideal solution but it was designed for a purpose and it was not mine… tweaking and adapting it was a long drawn out slog and I even ended up calling the developers to discuss a solution. They were great and very supportive. There is in fact a new version of ELGG due for release in the summer that is more adaptable to my needs but hey that’s months away!
So, now I am playing with DRUPAL. I’ll let you know how I get on!