After a couple of years developing using CI, I’m thinking using EE to develop a government agency website and have a few questions.

1) What kind of license a government agency would need?

2) I’ve developed a few libraries and models for CI, and would like to use them in EE. How easy would that be?

3) How easy is it for the end user? I went on the demo back end, and it looked like it could be confusing for many users. I’m not even sure I fully understood it.

4) For a variety of reasons, I’ve switched back to using HTML 4.01 due to IE XHTML issue. I’d like to create all of my templates as plain HTML. Is that a problem?

Thanks.

Hi, kbauman!  A government agency would be fine with the personal license.

For using your CI libraries, this is something that is not currently supported.  You could build a custom module, extension, or plugin to handle any recurring additions you need - here are the development docs.

As far as the end-user; this is as easy as you, the developer, make it. You can use membership permissions to pare down what they see in the control panel, and you can also build stand alone forms for additions outside of the control panel.  The infrastructure, data, and output is in your hands - so you can make it easy on your clients; the same answer really for using 4.01 - the templates are up to you.

You might want to try EECore or the 30-day hosted demo, you can find them here =)

Thanks for the quick reply. That helps a lot. I’ll do a little more research, before making a recommendation.