> -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Sebor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 16 January 2008 1:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Redesign Website > > Gav.... wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Martin, Can I ask what version of Forrest you are testing with > > at the moment? (I guess you are testing locally) > > I used 0.8 for my experiments. > > > > > The 0.9-dev trunk version is slowly improving in terms of the > > dispatcher and its use of 'themes'. Otherwise 0.9-dev is not > > all that different from the 0.8 version released in April last year. > > > > I would suggest we enable the dispatcher and make use of the themes > > as it is 'much' easier to use that the default 'skins'. As far as the > > source xml xdoc files go there is no real difference. > > > > Anyway, let me know when you are ready and what you want to know and/or > > what you want me to do. > > I haven't done much yet. I started with the demo and tried to > make changes to it to gauge how easily I could morph it something > resembling our site.
The only existing site I've seen is based on forests pelt skin, is this what you mean or is there a site design I have missed somewhere else ? I admit I was a little intimidated by all the > properties in the xml file and what seemed like a considerable > amount of work to remove the many (useful) pages from the demo and > replace them with ours, and I was struggling a little with finding > enough detail in the documentation to help me do what I was trying > to do. But I probably spent only about 3 hours with it in total, > including reading the docs, so I'm sure I missed a bunch of stuff. > > I hope to get back to it sometime later this week and I'm sure I'll > have questions for you when I do. please do. > > Btw., what's the difference between Forrest and Lenya? From what > I've read, Lenya seems to work at a higher level, letting users > make changes to the site in real time, while Forrest is a lower > level tool, more suitable to our needs. Would you say that's > a fair (if overly simplistic) assessment? Yep, Forrest is a content publishing framework, can be configured to accept different types of input such as html,xml,xdoc,rss and many more and convert them to different outputs such as (x)html,xdoc,txt,pdf,rss and many more available via input/internal/output plugins. It's look and feel can be configured somewhat to make for decent presentation, but it needs to be remembered its initial goal is to publish data, it is not designed to be a full blown website creation tool, but is one of its many abilities. Lenya on the other hand is a full blown CMS - Content Management System, designed for the web and for collaboration between teams or individuals. Much of the design and the content can be created through a choice of web interfaces, accounts can be created through it at differing levels from user to author to publisher etc, each with their own levels of access. Both Forrest and Lenya are to an extent based on Cocoon, though Lenya has designs for Daisy and others. Anyway, I'm waffling, I think Lenya far too big and powerful for just publishing a website such as what most Apache Projects need. > > Thanks for your offer to help! No probs. I guess we can continue on in the other thread now, and hopefully others may want to join in at some stage. Gav... > Martin > > > > > Gav... > > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.2 - Release Date: 1/12/2008 > 12:00 AM
