Posted by
Andrew Sykes on
Sep 01, 2005; 5:17pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/OFBiz-Users-would-like-to-change-the-content-management-component-of-OfBiz-tp135715p135726.html
Al,
Thank you for the thorough response.
I guess one of the biggest problems with taking on further development
of the CMS is actually assimilating what is there already.
The AJAX idea seems sensible, but I can imagine it would be very easy to
get bogged down with this. Perhaps it would be more sensible to follow a
more traditional route in proof of concept and adding AJAX style
features later. The reason I suggest this is that there would be a
mountain of javascript involved (I assume) but javascript on it's own is
not going to get the job done. I would imagine it would be easier to
write javascript once it was more apparent how the CMS actually
worked...
>From my experience of CMS systems, it would be adequate to leave
template design as a programmer job. I have recently been looking at
Mambo with Si, although not the most exemplar CMS it does seem popular
despite requiring the user to resort to code for a new template (there
is a Dreamweaver plugin to make the job a little easier though).
In terms of providing users with a WYSIWYG editor, there are a few out
there and indeed I have already added FCKEditor to the catalog for one
client.
As you mentioned, the document workflow and security permissions
features of OfBiz would be a real asset, and I would imagine would set
OfBiz CMS above the crowd!
I think RSS is a 'nice to have' feature at this point, but by the time
some more of the core work was done would be fairly trivial to
implement. What do you think?
I'd be really fascinated to see exactly how you have implemented sites
using the existing CMS and for that matter would appreciate any
resources you could point me in the direction of so that I could better
understand how everything is currently hanging together and what is
possible with OfBiz CMS at the current time.
Again thank you for your time, this is most appreciated.
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Andrew Sykes <
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Sykes Development Ltd
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