When reading this year's web criteria, i noticed the section for student coding. Now, if you haven't seen the threads raving and ranting about CMS', then you should know most FIRST teams use them. They save time and hassle, and automate many tasks that you would have to do writing html over and over again.
My question is, how do you constitute student coding when you have a CMS? Now, most if not all that are used are opensource (they have to be. its hard to hide source code for that stuff
). For our CMS, DotNetNuke, i tore it apart changing things because it didnt suite our needs. Now, the judges will never know that i changed 33 lines in dnn.dom.positioning.js , but they will see its dotnetnuke and go "oh, they are lazy, they didnt even code the site."
Is this fair? What about the coding and the work that go into using a non-simple CMS. I agree that you could dismiss student coding if all u have is wordpress and its like a blog. But what do you do when you have the drupal site with it all reconfigure, hand coded skin, and hours of time put in?