Website development

[xoggoth]

Plenty of favourable comments here and elsewhere about WP, Drupal etc. so I can only conclude that the expert who charged my sister almost £4000 for an awful WP website that took nearly a minute to load every page was just a total idiot. Every image was present in multiple sizes, up to 13!, WTF that was about I have no idea.

[Whorty]

Plenty of favourable comments here and elsewhere about WP, Drupal etc. so I can only conclude that the expert who charged my sister almost £4000 for an awful WP website that took nearly a minute to load every page was just a total idiot. Every image was present in multiple sizes, up to 13!, WTF that was about I have no idea.

Ouch - sounds like a rip off monkey can you not go in and fix it for her? WP is fairly easy to play with, especially if a standard free theme has been used.

[fullyautomatix]

I've done commercial contract work on sites built on both WordPress and Drupal.

The WP one was pretty weird, actually: we only used WP's admin as a content management system, because the various people within the organisation who would be producing content were already familiar with it from other internal uses of it. The usual public-facing parts of WP weren't used at all. The content was then extracted over HTTP via a JSON API (provided by a WordPress plugin) by a Node task running as a cron job and rendered into static HTML using server-side jQuery (yes, really), as well as being used to plug the same content into a PhoneGap (now Cordova) mobile app

I was not responsible for coming up with this unusual workflow, which I suspect reflected the desire of a certain person at the client's to just do some stuff with these various technologies. (I did try to shoehorn XSLT in there, because I like XSLT, but sadly it proved to be impractical to fit it in anywhere )

The Drupal stuff was more straightforward commercial sites, where my involvement was mainly limited to putting together HTML templates, CSS, and JS for the front end.

: That is the most bizarre set up I have come across. Well done trying to sneak in XSLT as well into the mix. I bet someone currently is trying to support the whole thing and is tearing his hair out