I tried to long onto the demo site with a problem
usr = admin
pwd = password
this gave me a log-in error.
Did I do something wrong here?
Thanks,
Corbin Harris
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>From: Emiliano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Corbin Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [midgard] Midgard feasiblity
>Date: Sun, Jan 9, 2000, 1:53 PM
>
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Corbin Harris wrote:
>
>> Questions,
>> Given that I have no programming skills & intermediate HTML skills, how
>> complicated would it be to install Midgard & get things working in a short
>> time?
>
> Installation is going to require someone with moderate knowledge
> of Unix (except for RedHat/x86 and Mandrake I guess).
>
> After installation the HTML skills required are not different from
> what you'd need for any site.
>
> While Midgards' content management and layout engine is powerful and
> easy to use without PHP programming, you'll be missing out on the
> good stuff. But since content and layout are well separated it's
> easy to bring in expertise to do the layout & programming and
> leave the day to day care of the content to your editorial staff
> even when the programmer is long gone.
>
>> How difficult would it be to transfer my current site (built using
>> Dreamweaver on Macintosh) to Midgard?
>
> I'm not too familiar with dreamweaver but I'd say 'it depends'.
> If you eschew the Midgard style management it's easy but again,
> you'ld be missing the good stuff. Expect to spend a little time
> to separate the common parts of your site into the reusable
> Midgard styles and the per-page content.
>
>> Once up and running how difficult is it for editorial staff to update
>> content?
>
> Easy. With a little script content can be published (to use the
> Netscape term) directly to the Midgard site, and Midgard includes
> an formatted text parser that will convert paragraphs separated by
> empty lines into HTML on the fly for easy text entry.
>
>> How does Midgard compare to commercial products? (such as those I mentioned)
>
> Midgard is pretty close to Dispatch in concept although Dispatch currently
> has some features that are still on our todo list. I don't know E-Grail
> well enough to comment on it although from the looks of it it's a great
> product.
>
> You'll find Midgards' reusable (inheritable) styles simple to use
> but extremely flexible to be an invaluable feature.
>
>> What other alternatives are available?
>
> The only other content management systems that I know of in the OSS
> realm are Zope and aolserver.
>
>> I may have future questions. I'm tasked to give my managers options for our
>> website so the site can be more dynamic, but the fact I'm on almost zero
>> budget limits my options, so any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I think you'll like Midgard (now there's a surprise, eh?) but don't take
> my word for it. To get a taste of what you can do with midgard, head
> on over to http://midgard-demo.marlowes.com/ and experiment (but mind
> that all experiments are destroyed every 12 hours).
>
> Emile
>
>
>
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