ergophobe - 8:53 pm on Apr 25, 2009 (gmt 0)

I finally had some time to check them out.

SS failed to install because I keep my testbed strict and they had used PHP short tags. Fixed that and then gave it a try. It follows a similar content management model to ModX ("assets" "pages" etc), but ModX makes more sense to me. Also, I was kind of surprised that SS won Pakt most promising, yet to add an image to a page, I have to go over to the files/assets interface to upload and categorize the image before it's available.

Concrete5 - I didn't find it intuitive in fact. Changes that I expected to be sitewide were page specific. I had to watch the videos in order to figure out how to change a template side wide and retroactively. I clicked around for a long time and could never figure this out. It *is* intuitive for the people who will be merely editing content on the page, but I wasn't sure how permissions work (can I differentiate b/w people who can change a page layout and people who can only change text?).

Perhaps if I put more time into C5 I could do things similar to what I can do in drupal, but that would take a lot more playing and I just don't have the time yet. I still have to get back to testing WordpressMU as well.

One thing that is great in C5 is the ability to build user input forms on the fly. That's a killer feature.

So like you, I'm back to drupal - the mess I love b/c I can get things done and so much is possible.

the answer will be "we can!"

Or more likely: "sure, there's a module for that."