My First Date With CiviCRM

I've recently took on a website development project related to politics. Currently, the website does not use a CMS and is very difficult to manage. My goal is to move it to Drupal within the next couple of months.

So far, I've learned a couple of things with the development version on my dev server. The first has to do with CiviCRM.

On the surface, CiviCRM looks to be very powerful. And upon initial installation, it feels like running a 358 cubic inch V8 with a well tuned 850cfm Q-Jet. But after messing with it for a while to get my bearings and start setting it up for the needs of this particular client, I realized that it also has straight exhaust through tuned headers, a supercharger, Powerglide transmission, cop suspension, Goodyear Eagles... It's like driving one of those cars that your buddy has where he tells the passenger in the front seat that they can keep the $100 bill if they can reach up and grab it off the dash when he hits the gas...

I'm definitely looking forward to getting to know CiviCRM a lot more intimately. It looks like she might take me places I could never dream of going without her...