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snnort · 03-11-2008, 03:22 PM

I have some idea's for a few layouts... I'm highly leaning towards a CMS of some sort... I was heavily involved in the CDBL and BCBL (Crash Davis and Billy Chapel)... the dying out came with the release of OOTP 2006 and getting people to move away from 6.5 mostly due to workload of the simmer. At the time, no one wanted to move away from 6.5... but the simming procedures were pretty time consuming.

With OOTP8 I'm in a league, but not running one anymore... but it's obvious that with all the help and automation included in OOTP8... I'm considering bringing back the BCBL... but part of the CDBL/BCBL was maintaining a premo website.

I am not a fan of sites in which the entire background is run by MySQL which most CMS packages require. But I'm not seeing a way around that.

Perl/CGI based CMS is (IMO) quicker and easier to manage with less the 50 regular users... but I'm having a hard time finding any.

The former BCBL website was a patch work of HTML/CSS frontpage, with a backend of Coronto for news and a YaBB forum and BOSI... that required THREE (3) different logins for forum, news writing, and BOSI.

IF I use a good CMS for the new site (Drupel, Joomla, or phpNuke) then the only other login required would be for the OOTPOnlineUtilitites suite.

BUT also important to me is getting everything to LOOK GOOD. Amazing. Like ESPN's Baseball frontpage.

03-11-2008, 03:22 PM	#4 (permalink)
snnort Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 43	I have some idea's for a few layouts... I'm highly leaning towards a CMS of some sort... I was heavily involved in the CDBL and BCBL (Crash Davis and Billy Chapel)... the dying out came with the release of OOTP 2006 and getting people to move away from 6.5 mostly due to workload of the simmer. At the time, no one wanted to move away from 6.5... but the simming procedures were pretty time consuming. With OOTP8 I'm in a league, but not running one anymore... but it's obvious that with all the help and automation included in OOTP8... I'm considering bringing back the BCBL... but part of the CDBL/BCBL was maintaining a premo website. I am not a fan of sites in which the entire background is run by MySQL which most CMS packages require. But I'm not seeing a way around that. Perl/CGI based CMS is (IMO) quicker and easier to manage with less the 50 regular users... but I'm having a hard time finding any. The former BCBL website was a patch work of HTML/CSS frontpage, with a backend of Coronto for news and a YaBB forum and BOSI... that required THREE (3) different logins for forum, news writing, and BOSI. IF I use a good CMS for the new site (Drupel, Joomla, or phpNuke) then the only other login required would be for the OOTPOnlineUtilitites suite. BUT also important to me is getting everything to LOOK GOOD. Amazing. Like ESPN's Baseball frontpage. __________________ BCBL - Billy Chapel Baseball League - A Leader in the OOTP Community (formerly the Crash Davis Baseball League).