I just built my first radiant site: www.parroquiaholyspirit.com. It's still
a work in progress.

I really enjoyed working with Radiant and the community around it.

Details
Since we were on a shoestring budget we chose a free template from
www.oswd.org to build our site. Which brings me to of my favorite things
about Radiant: most CMS force you to massage the template so that it works
with the particular CMS and you end up with all of the sites that look
pretty much the same, with Radiant you "massage" Radiant so that it works
with the template you have chosen. The template had 4 different page layouts
which I implemented using Radiant's layouts. The header, main and footer
menus took advantage of snippets. The css for the menus was based on this
article http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/. For the
contact form I installed the mailer extension and built the form around it.
This may not be the best practice, but I just parked the css files in the
public/stylesheets folder.

Issues
The only issue I had is that sometimes the documentation was a little
sketchy, especially on some of the extensions. Maybe something I can
contribute to.

Future project
I am planning on having an events extesion that would allow
1. The admin to add/publish and delete events on a page based on an event
category
2. Users to submit events for publication

Suggestions
I think it would be useful if we split the user role into 2: authors and
editors. The main difference would be that authors can only create draft
content, editors would have the same rights as the current user role.

Thanks for a great tool.


Luis
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