superklye
12-28-06, 12:17 PM
Has anyone else had the misfortune of using this junk heap content management system? I cannot get over how incredibly terrible it is: besides from the countless bugs that I won’t even begin to talk about, IT HAS NO CODING STANDARS AT ALL!
EVERYTHING is table-based. I am from the “tables are for holding tabular data, not laying out a page” camp and use 100% CSS for all my designing/positioning.
It uses font tags (sometimes 3 or 4 or even more) for any sort of font-related changes (size, color, etc).
We have some plugin that makes the in-browser editor (the only way you can edit anyway) more like FrontPage in that it’s got a “design” view that’s identical to work (and without a doubt the reason the backend code is so atrocious).
I’m sitting here, coding in Notepad++ (since Dreamweaver isn’t allowed for whatever reason and I refuse to use FrontPage for ethical reasons), putting quotes on all my tag attributes, making sure everything is lowercase to conform with XHTML standards, etc…I copy code into the code view of the browser, save and IMMEDIATELY, all my formatting (indents and all that jazz to make the code readable) is stripped, all of the quotes are taken away, and attributes are rewritten using capital letters all over the place.
It’s so damned frustrating!
Plus, there’s no virtual file system that allows one to easily drag and drop files into directories and then link. No. The only way to add files (and link to them) is to go through this archaic and retarded web-based interface that ALWAYS starts at the up-most level and requires you to drill down through the tree to find what you’re looking for. I’ve spent 20 minutes trying to find this file with no luck yet. It’s ridiculous.
There is so much more I could say, but my God. What’s the point? WORST CMS EVER!
EVERYTHING is table-based. I am from the “tables are for holding tabular data, not laying out a page” camp and use 100% CSS for all my designing/positioning.
It uses font tags (sometimes 3 or 4 or even more) for any sort of font-related changes (size, color, etc).
We have some plugin that makes the in-browser editor (the only way you can edit anyway) more like FrontPage in that it’s got a “design” view that’s identical to work (and without a doubt the reason the backend code is so atrocious).
I’m sitting here, coding in Notepad++ (since Dreamweaver isn’t allowed for whatever reason and I refuse to use FrontPage for ethical reasons), putting quotes on all my tag attributes, making sure everything is lowercase to conform with XHTML standards, etc…I copy code into the code view of the browser, save and IMMEDIATELY, all my formatting (indents and all that jazz to make the code readable) is stripped, all of the quotes are taken away, and attributes are rewritten using capital letters all over the place.
It’s so damned frustrating!
Plus, there’s no virtual file system that allows one to easily drag and drop files into directories and then link. No. The only way to add files (and link to them) is to go through this archaic and retarded web-based interface that ALWAYS starts at the up-most level and requires you to drill down through the tree to find what you’re looking for. I’ve spent 20 minutes trying to find this file with no luck yet. It’s ridiculous.
There is so much more I could say, but my God. What’s the point? WORST CMS EVER!