Comments on: Acquia’s Friendlier Version of Drupal: Early Reviews Coming Mixed

By: Matthue DeYarus

Matthue DeYarus — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:42:24 +0000

@Bill Kruse: I went and read your CMS and SEO doc and am VERY puzzled. First of all, none of the items you listed are an issue in any of the best open-source CMS systems. For instance, one totally can manage SEO relevant assets like Titles and H1 in these apps…easily, without any coding. It is actually a lot harder to learn HTML and CSS than to run basic admin in Drupal. And anyway, for an individual, or small company/org., to develop the same modular functionality of an open source community would take literally millions of dollars. That is why none of the important CMS products is for profit…too many human hours have been donated. I think your thesis is not supported by facts and is actually doing a disservice to people out there who want to get involved in social networks that are scoped to their needs.

By: Bill Kruse

Bill Kruse — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:32:53 +0000

I admire any and all attempts to improve the usability of Drupal but have yet to see any CMS that’s easier for the non-teckie to use than plain HTML is. People need to be educated to understand that basic html and basic CSS (particularly with 3 breathing down our necks) is easier to learn and implement than many a CMS. You’ll have your tricky bits and particularly with ecommerce, where attestable security is an essential, you’ll need to be getting in a pro. But the everyday stuff, the heart of most web sites, is basic. Shame more people don’t understand that.
I dunno if I’m allowed to link back to my site in comments from here but I expand on this theme here CMS & SEO at some length!

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:30:38 +0000

Jeff, thanks for commenting. What you are saying makes total sense. Keep us posted on when the stack installer goes live and, equally importantly, when partners can offer one-click installs of Drupal on hosting / co-lo providers.

By: Jeff Whatcott

Jeff Whatcott — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:21:54 +0000

Hi there. I think Mike at Infoworld was installing an entire LAMP environment from scratch and then installing Acquia Drupal on top of it. Even then, we were surprised that it took 1.5 days for him to get up and running. It no doubt would have taken him even longer if he hadn’t had Acquia Drupal, which installs with all the most common modules in one package.

One of the things we’re working on right now is a stack installer for Acquia Drupal that will lay down a full xAMP stack, including Acquia Drupal with a pre-configured database. This will dramatically accelerate the installation process for most people.

Be sure to check out the Acquia Drupal roadmap at:
http://acquia.com/community/projects/acquia-drupal-roadmap