It did work...may I just can't type today.
Thanks,
Corbin Harris
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>From: "Corbin Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [midgard] Midgard feasiblity
>Date: Sun, Jan 9, 2000, 3:06 PM
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> 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
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>
>> 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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