Thanks Geoff and Justin, Always good to hear new perspectives on approaches to FarCry projects.
Chris. On Thursday, 27 February 2014 00:06:44 UTC, Geoff Bowers wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > On 27 February 2014 09:58, Chris Kent <mxde...@gmail.com <javascript:>>wrote: > >> Looking through Farcry V7 RC and Chelsea Boots, I see 2 content types - >> dmEventListing and dmNewsListing in the FarCry cms plugin - these appear to >> be very simple types available in the site tree that allow adding news or >> events listing pages. >> >> In the past I would place a news/event listing rule within a container on >> the required page and these content types have very similar properties to >> the news/event publishing rules. >> >> What is the reason behind using these content types in preference to >> publishing rules. >> >> If you have many different content types within your project, this new >> approach could lead to more options that editors have within the site tree >> maintenance when usually a very high percentage of site tree content pages >> will be html pages >> e.g. >> - old way, when adding content under a nav node there would usually be >> options to select html page, includes/webskins or links >> - FarCry 7 cms plugin adds 3 more options ( and more if this approach is >> used for new project specific content types >> >> The main benefit that I can see is that more of the site set up is within >> the webtop and not on the front end. >> > > Containers (and rules) are expensive in terms of performance. They are > also difficult for many non-technical clients to manage. > > Having a dedicated content type in the tree for managing the listing has > the following benefits: > > - anecdotally easier for contributors to understand > - much better performance than an HTML page with multiple containers > - great deal of flexibility in terms of how the page is rendered; ie. the > content type can have its own dedicated page level templates for rendering > > For simple content listings of a single content type the benefits are less > pronounced. However, if you had a "landing page" content type that > combined multiple content types together, and provided a variety of theme > specific design options the benefits start to become very obvious. For > example, its not uncommon for folks to build home pages with several grid > changes (column/row variations) and defining many container regions to > provide configuration options for changing the behaviour of the landing > page. A simple example of this is the "Landing Page" content type in the > Chelsea sample project -- it provides easy management of carousel and > promos without a single container. > > Its worth nothing that this is not a change in framework functionality, > just in the approach that we use internally for projects. We now offer > examples of both approaches (containers and dedicated in tree content > listing types) in the FarCry CMS plugin and sample application. > > Hope that helps, > > GB > -- You received this message cos you are subscribed to "farcry-dev" Google group. To post, email: farcry-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe, email: farcry-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options: http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev -------------------------------- Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/farcry --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "farcry-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to farcry-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
