content management requirements (apparently www.fashion.ie was built in a
weekend by someone who didn't know any CF when he started).
...
www.fashion.ie looks like built in with fuseaction and "static"
content.... An CF newbie don't have all that know how to do any site
like that..... in a weekend...
What's happened?
Marco
On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 11:56:09 +0100, Mark Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that during a recent thread regarding Farcry and SpeckCMS, not
> many people had heard of SpeckCMS (www.speckcms.com). So, I thought I'd
> provide a wee bit more info...
>
> Speck is an object-based open-source content management framework that was
> initially developed by Robin Hilliard
> (www.builderau.com.au/askexperts/macromedia/). I got involved in the
> development almost immediately after he released a rough alpha version in
> May 2002.
>
> Speck has been designed to be OS, web server and database independent and
> has been tested on both Windows and Linux, with IIS and Apache and Access,
> SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Firebird and MySQL (4.1 required). It can
> also be used with CF5, as it is built using custom tags rather than CFCs.
> It is a stable solution, which has been used in production for about 2 years.
>
> Geoff Bowers mentioned that Speck is more of a toolkit than Farcry, and
> that is true - Speck was conceived as a framework. However, it is
> distributed with an example CMS (SpeckCMS) that provides a set of
> out-of-the-box content management capabilities.
>
> Farcry definitely does provide more for the end user out-of-the-box, but
> from my limited experience with it and vast experience with Speck (read:
> I'm biased ;), I'd have to say that I think Speck is simpler to extend to
> provide custom functionality. Our development team is not made up of highly
> experienced software engineers and is probably typical of many CF
> development teams, yet everyone in the team is confident using and
> extending Speck and they have even learnt something about OO development in
> the process (ok, I did have to give a few slaps to get the copy 'n' paste
> merchants to use inheritance, but corporal punishment is sometimes
> necessary ;). I also know that Speck has been used by non-programmers for
> content management requirements (apparently www.fashion.ie was built in a
> weekend by someone who didn't know any CF when he started).
>
> For the end user, we have found SpeckCMS to be a great success. We deal
> with business people and medial professionals who tbh just see technology
> as a necessary evil (and fair enough, they're probably right). SpeckCMS
> allows content to be edited in-context, i.e. the user just browses to the
> page they want to edit and clicks on the relevant edit link embedded into
> the content. I'm not sure if Farcry also allows this, but I know many other
> systems don't and we've found it to be a huge benefit that not only saves
> us a small fortune on training and support but really impresses the
> customers (ok, they are easily impressed, but perception is important).
>
> Well, I've rattled on for long enough - hope this has been informative
>
> Mark
>
>
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