silverstripe cms
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- forcetwelve
any good? recommend?
- airey0
looks interesting. if you use it would you mind posting the site and some notes about it?
- forcetwelve0
yep - if i use it
- imnotaplumber0
try expressionengine forcetwelve, its an easy jump from wordpress and you'll never go back to wordpress
- airey0
not entirely true. EE is excellent but this whole attitude of one versus the other is ridiculous. it just reeks of self-justification.
personally i used EE (through a developer) for this bigger site which has a few client's adding content:
http://www.purefishing.com.au/and then over the last few weeks have got this finally happening using wordpress:
http://www.janiecollins.com.au/EE is fantastic but for small budget sites WP was easier and faster for me to have implemented.
it's really a case of whatever solution you prefer but i honestly believe that you need to keep a few solutions in your arsenal. the idea of only using 1 product for everything seems limited to me. it also means that you've only got some much scope for budgets and therefore limits what work you can offer. maybe i'm just a much smaller fish and have smaller clients than others here.
my 2cents.
- + wp is massively extensible. EE is coming alone really well though as the user base grows (and fast)airey
- and by alone i mean along.airey
- Totally agree, many times we start from scratch and build bespoke CMS, You gotta be open to using the best CMS for the job... EE, WP, OSC,
ejectstudio
- imnotaplumber0
true that it depends on the project
@airey when you say that "wp is massively extensible." it more means that it is massively hackable by designers. EE is the same it's a CMS for designers but there is a huge amount more built in control than WP.
- totally. i guess what i like is that the community is huge and the plugins/hacks available are amazing.airey
- EE is getting there to now that it's usage has risen. pretty great tool.airey
- you should have a go at using EE, if you can hack together wordpress you will be able to use EE easily after you learn the key terms they useimnotaplumber
- the key terms they useimnotaplumber
- forcetwelve0
thx guys. expression engine looks good. is there any good tutorials on how to build a site with it from scratch?
i'm slowly trying to learn this development stuff.
- start with their dev centre. also, google leads to some great blogs by developers.airey
- cheers mate - just foun the EE documentationforcetwelve
- jevad0
Used Silverstripe for this:
http://www.chi-residences.com/
Very flexible. Easy set up. User-friendly (read: idiot proof)
- Nightshade0
I think I am going to use EE for my next big CMS'd website.
I am just trying out the demo. It looks like you have to edit all the templates inside the admin area itself, instead of Dreamweaver or other external editor. Does anyone find this a hindrance?
- nope. i do all edits in my clients template area and it's all good. will depend on your server speed i guess.airey
- I still do all my code in an external editor, then copy and paste in to the EE admin.Nairn
- CONTENT, on the other hand, is all done through the EE admin interface.Nairn
- It's trivial to configure EE to use external files for templates. Check out the dev docs.welded
- forcetwelve0
thats what i just wondered too... how are you meant to test css etc?
- airey0
you need to change your work habits if you're going to use a CMS anyway by the sounds. for css creation and testing just create a trial site using whatever you usually would and the when happy copy-paste to the live template.
if you're just doing basic alts or know the css you want to add is 100% already then juts add it straight in.
- quamb0
also have a look at Trading Eye:
http://www.tradingeye.com/Is very easy to customise the layout/CSS to whatever you want. Downside is the community is rather small with limited mods - upside is it is very much tailored for online stores if you wanted to upgrade to the 'store builder'.
- plash0
@airey, the wordpress site is hot. looks great.
one quick question and one comment for you.
question: does it have a ecom running, cuz i couldn't find itcomment:
is missing and is displaying a broken image. I rarely badger people about that kind of stuff. but its more out of respect for such a clean and well produced design.
- tOki0
We have our own fully featured cms which has been in constant development for 4 years. It's cool being able to just add features to it when I design a site that does someting a bit different :)
- jsaul0
@Nightshade , you can set EE to save out all or any of your template files to external .php files, then you can open and edit them in any text-editor you like.
There will be a how-to in the forum no doubt.
- imnotaplumber0
EE newbies as welded said, you can save all your EE templates as flat files and then edit them in your preferred editor, you DON'T have to copy and paste the flat files back into the templates. If you do want to get your flat files back into the templates there is an extension called DC Template Manager which will do all your templates at once.
- imnotaplumber0
Good resources include:
http://www.train-ee.com/ and
http://newism.com.au/blog/catego… is blogging about how they built the campaign monitor site with EE, good for learning how to structure a site