[eluser]Joshua Logsdon[/eluser]
Yeah, Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress, etc. are definitely valid options and I've had a chance to work with them a bit before. Like you said, from the start you've got things ready to go like admin, blog-like functionality, plugins, etc. I could probably have my site running off of Drupal tomorrow
I'm lucky to not have to worry about having it up immediately, otherwise it would be a Drupal site for sure.
Similar to you, CI has been a great introduction for me. It's got me hooked on methodology... because I had to code some things from scratch (like an admin panel, more flexible cache handling, better image handling, etc.) I did a lot of research on topics and got a better understanding of the "why"s and "how"s. Now that I have a lot of things built to be reused, I'm partial to CI as a solution and for allowing me to be a student
That's unfortunate about Russian words... that's got to be a big deciding factor for you right there regardless of what framework you use.
