I mention this mainly because I'm an author; writing is livelihood. While my first offering is a rather non-political guidebook, my future projects aim to be much more opinionated and one thing I can tell you is that I don't believe the world is only 6,000 years old like some people (though I have no qualms with someone else believing that). And even if I never amount to a stack of beans, it's evident that censorship of books and ideas a trademark of cowardly leaders. One thing is true-- the GOP is certainly good at scaring the crap out of uneducated Americans.
Blah. Anyhow...
So the debate here (non-political) is should I move my main website into a CMS (content management system) like Wordpress or Drupal. I'll be keeping my blog on blogger--it's easy to use, has strong SEO ties and I like the design control. It's the rest of mountainouswords that I want to develop and admittedly, a CMS would make my life so much easier. Manually updating the pages takes time and even then, there are some design changes a CMS would likely help out. But there are pros and cons:
Wordpress
Pros: looks good, auto-xml sitemaps, nice plugins, well supported platform, easy to import HTML, plus I know a few folks who use it
Cons: Seems very difficult to design if you go outside of WP's template system, especially with individual pages, limited photo gallery options, never used the interface
Drupal
Pros: I use it here at work so I'm familiar with it, nice navigation blocks and design set-up, very easy to customize individual pages, quick to get up and running
Cons: Tricky back end and plugin support, no auto-sitemap features, no auto-backups
I keep going back and forth but I KNOW just using Dreamweaver isn't cutting it for me. Any suggestions would be helpful--unlike the elections this fall, I can still go either way on this one.
