As I wrote yesterday, I am getting extremely annoyed with ExpressionEngine as a CMS, and the way that it boots me every time I spend a little bit of time writing a post. As a result, rather late last night I started my search for a new CMS. I downloaded 3 - Movable Type, Jaws, and Drupal. Of all of them, I can only get Jaws to work, and it seems kind of crap to me.

The issues I had with Movable Type is simply in the getting it installed and working vein. You have to mess around with config files, and it uses CGI scripts - something that I have never come across in a CMS before, and my lack of knowledge of CGI has caused some massive headaches. I am sitting here extremely frustrated because I can’t seem to work out what I need to do to get it installed and working.

Jaw installed without a drama, but it looks kind of inadequate for anything. I couldn’t see any way possible to design a new theme/skin/template/whatever the hell you want to call it for the system, and to get any basic functionality out of it, you have to install a myriad of plugins. Aaargh.

Drupal just doesn’t want to work much in the same way that Movable Type doesn’t want to work, but its actually even worse because I cannot for the life of me find anywhere/anyone that has experienced the sort of problems I am having. I am getting “500 Internal Server Error” every time I try to access the installation file. It is pissing me right off, and I don’t know where to go with this one either.

At the moment, I am stuck with trying to learn how to use Textpattern to create a halfway decent site, and that is proving frustrating also. I guess I will have to stick with it and try and work it out.