Markus, feel free to suggest specific ways to improve BoltWire. Particularly ideas about organization, or administration and the like, from their software. I'm always looking for fresh ideas. It is interesting the parallels in language they use to describe their system (legos, concrete). I'm curious if they have truly innovative ideas in terms of their engine/architecture, that might go beyond the ajax interface?
I spent a few moments looking at their site and like the ajax interface for editing of course. I would love something like that for BoltWire, however, I lack the skill and/or motivation to delve into trying to code something like that personally. And from my time at PmWiki, I've grown to appreciate the power of markup over wysiwyg--at least in terms of site development. I have looked at the wikiwyg project (www.wikiwyg.net) and think it could be ported over easily enough. I tried once before, but either because of my skill limitations, or bugs in their system, I never could quite get it to work. That was some time ago. It may be working better today. It gives a similar wow effect. Concrete also seems to have several built in application systems like file management, scrapbook, and the like. We could try adding all that into BoltWire, I guess, if we could find good open source projects out there and find ways to do the interface, but I don't sense that is the direction I want to go. Not just bloat--but more a problem of complexity and lack of focus. I'd like to keep BoltWire small and focused on what it does best. And do it well. So please help us out and filter any ideas you get from this CMS to actionable projects we can look at incorporating into BoltWire. In line with our philosophy and direction, of course. It would be great to hit gold again. As I think we did with the new skin. :) Cheers, Dan On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Markus <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Our last philosophical and inspirational talk about what is good or > bad about BoltWire ended among other things in a light and beautiful > new theme. Good things should be repeated. Here is round two. > > During the last few days I more or less stumbled upon a CMS. Besides > BoltWire it was actually the only CMS I ever looked at which did not > baffle my brain. It's name is concrete5 (http://www.concrete5.org/). > > There are so many things notably well done that I cannot list any > significant number of them. In a nutshell it is three things: easy, > innovative and wow. > > On the cost side is a rather big download (or upload). And probably > other things which did not affect me. > > I can only recommend to install a copy or to create a free personal > demo (https://www.getconcrete5.com/index.php/tour/demo/) and check it > out (editing, administration, navigation bar setup, RSS, blog, > blocks...). Whether or not there are features that should be > integrated into BoltWire, it may change the way you think about CMS's > and about creating web sites – for me it did. > > Hope you have some fun! > > Markus > > Disclaimer: I am in no way connected to concrete5 or its creators. And > well, it's an open source project. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BoltWire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
