Been busy

It's been a busy couple of months...

We've got a pretty big project on the horizon at work so I've been putting in some long hours to try and get things ready. The most pressing issues at the moment, and the only action I can actually take at the moment is to redesign our public website and internal intranet.

I've looked over literally dozens of intranet solutions from free opensource options to pricy commercial apps. I worked on trying to get a Plone site for about 2 weeks. I was able to get it customized to a certain degree, but I finally had to admit to myself that I didn't have the time or skills to make it do what I want. Right now I'm looking into Sharepoint. I'm not sure if I could get away with just using Sharepoint services, or if I need the full Portal product. I like the intergration with AD and the document management/versioning features, but to do some of the company-wide things I'd like to do would require the Sharepoint Portal 2003, and they ain't giving it away ($5000).

I'll probably just go with a template for the public site for now. I know they can look cheesy, but it'll have to do until I have time to devote more attention to it.