On Jul 3, 2011, at 12:15 PM, Julie Maxwell Allen wrote:
ok. I can understand that.
with the joomla actions does that make it easier for a fw user?
I haven’t used them myself, but Paul Dunning wrote them, and he is
extremely good at that, so I have hight expectations. You should try
them out and see how far you get. Remember, for the money, you also
get Paul to help you with the integration.
also, Walter - which do you recomend for clients that want control?
I have one client using Joomla! at the moment, he seems to like it
okay, but he started out coding in Dreamweaver 3, so he’s probably not
a good test subject for this experiment. Each client is different.
It’s part of your charge to figure out what the client can stand and
how well the CMS workflow integrates with the client’s worldview.
Flat-out the best CMS interface I have ever seen is MODx. Simple,
elegant, easy to use by most people. But even that requires some
understanding of How Things Work for both you and the end-user.
Knowing that you can drag and drop a page from one folder to another
is great. Knowing WHY you would want to has to come first. Only you,
working with the client, can evaluate what will make sense for that
client.
You could probably make a nice admin interface using WebYep and the
various loop tools that Max exposes through his Actions. If you
planned it out carefully, you could provide just enough control for
your customer to keep him or her out of the bushes, while still
effectively handing off the day-to-day administration. WY is the most
usable CMS I have seen for a Freeway workflow, because it hews
carefully to the Freeway design ethos. But WY does run out of road
very quickly, while you would be hard-pressed to find something that
you could not do in Joomla! using one or many of the hundreds
(thousands? haven’t checked lately) of plug-ins available to you.
Walter
Thanks
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