Progress

So I have officially moved to Mephisto! I have pretty much fallen in love with it as CMS. Here are a few reasons why…

• As I previously mentioned, Mephisto has sections. In my head, I kind of consider Mephisto a rails-based better TextPattern. Mephisto’s sections are like super-customizable categories, but better.

• Liquid Templates are actually extremely flexible. Compared to a traditional CMS template system (Wordpress, Movable Type…), it is infinitely more flexible. It can take some thought though if you’re not (slightly) used to object-oriented programming. I think that because Mephisto is so young, some template tags missing. You can get around this by adding your own tags/filters/macros/drops to liquid. This, of course, takes a little ruby knowledge. I have very limited ruby knowledge (though I’m getting better as I go along), and have been able to get around whatever limitations I have come across so far.

  Of course compared to Typo or SimpleLog, liquid is limiting. If you’re used to just using rail’s views, Liquid can seem very annoying. I think that people are working on giving users the choice of either rail’s views or Liquid Templates.

• Mephisto is simple. In fact I think the only complicated thing about Mephisto is Liquid. It is not bulky or bloated. It is simple and flexible.

Basically it fulfills all of my wishes for a CMS, and is malleable enough to do anything else I can think of. Yay!