Hi Alvin, I think creating/editing templates is a difficult job any way you cut it. And the debate of WYSIWYG vs. Editor-Oriented workflows has been ongoing since 1990, and without a clear cut answer.
Basically, I think WYSIWYG is better in most situations where the document's visual aspects are most important. But I would argue this is not the case for magnolia template development: in developing the templates you are starting with a HTML layout, so the visual aspects are already done. What you are doing now is dividing this template into editable "areas" and "components", defining their data-model, and adding rendering instructions to tie the editable data into the HTML. All this is accomplished by code and configuration. Using a visual tool's UI to write this code for me by clicking buttons seems exceedingly tedious to me. So I see the place for visual editors when working with the HTML Layout itself, but not really for the freemarker templates. That said, perhaps you should take a look at the kickstart.io project. It takes a different approach than Jahia, but I think it could vastly speed up your magnolia template development. Regards from Vienna, Richard > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [email protected] [mailto:dev-list-owner@magnolia- > cms.com] Im Auftrag von Alvin Wong (via Magnolia Forums) > Gesendet: Freitag, 20. März 2015 02:12 > An: Magnolia Dev List > Betreff: [magnolia-dev] magnolia stk vs jahia studio > > > Jahia created studio years ago. It seems editing/creating templates are easier > in a visual environment than stk. Why magnolia never created a visual tool to > handle templates? STK seems complicated for basic templating. > > -- > Context is everything: http://forum.magnolia- > cms.com/forum/thread.html?threadId=fc8850ec-1708-4d58-8d58- > ca47cbf7e70c > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Alternatively, use our forums: http://forum.magnolia-cms.com/ > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> > ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Alternatively, use our forums: http://forum.magnolia-cms.com/ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> ----------------------------------------------------------------
