I think maybe you just need to take another approach with her. Seems
sometimes web development is more psychology then programming. Does
she just put her hand over her ears when you say Markdown or Textile?
I've had a client like that! She just wants to make headers,
paragraphs, and upload pictures right? Keep working with her, tell
here to take a few breaths, and keeping reminding her that the filters
are there to keep the "technical stuff" out of her way.
My clients don't seem to mess with the snippets, tags, or css classes
that much. They just use the filters and maybe one tag and some
classes that they copy and past from where ever else it was used on
the site. It takes a bit for them to get the hang of it but if they
can see the simple patterns they'll be able to add their content.
Steven
On Nov 18, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Casper Fabricius wrote:
Hi everyone,
I've used Radiant for more than 10 web sites during the past 1,5
years, and I really like it. Definitely the best CMS for Rails.
However, I have a client whose content editor is very frustrated
with the system. She can only just tolerate using Markup, and she
refuses to write any kind of HTML - Radius tags falls into this
category from her point of view. According to her, a proper CMS
would hide all this "technical stuff" and provide custom forms for
all types of content.
I know what the core team might answer: Radiant CMS was not built
for this woman. It was built for small sites and content editors
with a bit of technical insight. But Radiant is still the most user-
friendly CMS that exists for Rails, and I don't really feel like
coding PHP just get a more "advanced" UI, which will suck anyway.
So my question is: How do the rest of you handle this? How do you
hide away "technical" stuff such as snippets, tags and css classes?
Do you:
- Use any of the WYSIWYG filters? (I've done this a few times, it
has its own problems)
- Build very specific custom layouts for all variants for pages?
- Use a generic templating interface such as radiant-templates-
extension to wrap everything up?
- Write custom extensions to wrap all kinds of "elements" nicely in
forms? (such as newsletters, spots, list of various items, etc.)
Can Radiant be palatable for content editors such as my client, or
is it simply the wrong choice in this case?
Med venlig hilsen / Best regards,
Casper Fabricius
http://casperfabricius.com
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