Re: Project PM Website

Hello Scott -

Barrett forwarded me your message looking at CushyCMS for the ProjectPM website. I do website design, development, and support for large activist organizations as a day job, and you're bang on that a CMS system is where it's at. Any modern website should give you the ability to edit and create content on the fly, as a base level requirement. We probably want a more full-featured system than cushyCMS can offer, though. Personally, I think the open-source Drupal CMS would be a better fit. It offers more capability out of the box, is easily extendable through thousands of available "modules" for different functionality, and is extremely customizable to interface with any other systems we work with. All of the organizations I work with use Drupal... it's considered the "serious" CMS.

Some examples of organizations using Drupal:

* Mattel ( http://mattel.com )
* Lifetime ( http://mylifetime.com )
* The Emmy awards ( http://www.emmys.com/ )
* UN's World Food Project ( http://www.wfp.org/ )
* Human Rights Watch ( http://www.hrw.org/ )
* Oxfam International ( http://www.oxfam.org/ )
* Michael Jackson ( http://community.michaeljackson.com/ )
* Rackspace hosting's support/documentation site ( http://www.rackspace.com/apps/support )
* Sony Ericsson's labs ( http://labs.sonyericsson.com/ )
* Prime Minister of Australia ( http://www.pm.gov.au/ )
* Belgium's government ( http://www.belgium.be/en/ )
* France's government ( http://www.gouvernement.fr/ )
* Discover Magazine ( http://discovermagazine.com/ )
* Popular Science ( http://www.popsci.com/ )
* The Onion ( http://www.theonion.com/ )
* Spread firefox ( http://spreadfirefox.com/ )

It's very easy for me to set us up a site running Drupal. Let me know if I can be of use here, I'd be happy to have a site up and ready for content entry this week.

Many thanks,

C
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