This has been a great community forum and Ive been learning a lot. Now I have a few questions. Ive started building sites in FW5 and I want to advance a little more with it. Does anyone have any experience using the CMS Joomla with FW5 and also Wordpress with FW5. Other recommendations are welcomed as well.
Thanks in advance to all.
Carey
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I have used Joomla extensively for client work, and while I’ve tried
half-heartedly to get Freeway to make a template for it, in the end I
couldn’t figure out how to make that work at all. Most if not all of
these systems rely on “smart” templates that self-assemble pages from
a kit of parts distributed in specially-named folders within a very
specific structure. You might have a tiny file that does nothing
except put the header on the page, and another to draw a calendar or a
search field. Freeway is not at all suited for this sort of thing –
it likes to make entire sites, or single pages, but nothing smaller.
And it likes to be in charge of where things go – what happens in the
Site folder is none of your business!
So the net result has always been for me to start with a “canned”
template that gets me mostly there, then open up the stylesheet for
the template in CSSEdit and start hacking away until the site works
the way the client imagines.
I haven’t done any more than look at Wordpress, decide it was too
“bloggy” for my needs, and move on. That was years ago, things change,
but I haven’t really looked back.
What sort of site are you thinking about here – that makes an
enormous difference when choosing a CMS. Some of them are
extraordinarily good at one sort of thing, and less so for any other
purpose. Others try to do everything, and fail to do anything well.
Walter
On Mar 25, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Andre wrote:
Does anyone have any experience using the CMS Joomla with FW5 and
also Wordpress with FW5.
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Im trying to look ahead. Trying to find something that works well with MACs and also easy for my future clients can use and I can instruct.
As far as the blog, I wanted to use a blog service that is already SEO-ed and I can just tap into their network. I would change the look of the pages so its not so blog-like.
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Adobe Contribute hasn’t been mentioned in a while but it’s still an
option if you want something more than WebYep and don’t anticipate
needing the features of a dedicated CMS (Joomla!, Drupal, EE, modx).
Worth a look.
http://www.adobe.com/products/contribute/
Todd
On Mar 25, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Andre wrote:
Im trying to look ahead. Trying to find something that works well
with MACs and also easy for my future clients can use and I can
instruct.As far as the blog, I wanted to use a blog service that is already
SEO-ed and I can just tap into their network. I would change the
look of the pages so its not so blog-like.
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How well would that integrate with Freeway, though? My understanding
is that it’s a cut-down Dreamweaver, and thus edits HTML, which is a
one-way trip away from Freeway. A CMS would avoid that problem, by
allowing you to create a reusable template in Freeway – and adjust
the look and feel of that template later without requiring any changes
to the content.
Walter
On Mar 25, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Todd wrote:
Adobe Contribute hasn’t been mentioned in a while but it’s still an
option if you want something more than WebYep and don’t anticipate
needing the features of a dedicated CMS (Joomla!, Drupal, EE, modx).
Worth a look.
http://www.adobe.com/products/contribute/Todd
On Mar 25, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Andre wrote:
Im trying to look ahead. Trying to find something that works well
with MACs and also easy for my future clients can use and I can
instruct.As far as the blog, I wanted to use a blog service that is already
SEO-ed and I can just tap into their network. I would change the
look of the pages so its not so blog-like.
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Ah yes, you’re right, my mistake. I was CMS window shopping and forgot
that it needed to integrate with FW. Never mind.
Todd
On Mar 25, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
How well would that integrate with Freeway, though? My understanding
is that it’s a cut-down Dreamweaver, and thus edits HTML, which is a
one-way trip away from Freeway. A CMS would avoid that problem, by
allowing you to create a reusable template in Freeway – and adjust
the look and feel of that template later without requiring any
changes to the content.
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