Actually... I'd have to disagree. When you're first starting out, things are confusing as the official training courses give you a very basic, but certainly not necessarily the best, way of building a project. They need to teach you too much to cover the most efficient way of putting together a project, but with some pre-planning and some experience, it becomes much more obvious how things work and changing a colour or moving something in a page becomes straight forward.
Having used a number of the larger CMSs on the market, I can safely say that the Open Text Web Solutions Management Server (aka RedDot) is actually pretty good in terms of developer usability developer usability. Be thankful that you don't need to write content classes in Java and then compile them before being ale to test anything ;) There are things that could be better, but you can say the same about anything. RedDot and ModX are two completely different beasts. If you tried to use ModX to build an intranet with 10,000 pages you'd be in a world of pain; likewise if you want a basic, small site, RedDot isn't the answer either. A beginner's guide is something we've been thinking about for http://www.reddotcmsblog.com ... so maybe that's something to think about for next week ;) In the mean time, there are loads of useful articles over there that may shed some light on piecing things together Paul On 26 Jun 2009, at 21:05, Nestor Tatters wrote: > > Arsalan, > > I have been using RedDot for a few months now. My advice? Forget > EVERYTHING you have learned about content management systems. NOTHING > is easy or obvious in RedDot. Usability for the developer is non- > existent. Also, make certain you have the structure of your content > and the design worked out in advance. (My designer drove me NUTS when > he would ask me to move something in the layout or change a colour. > What used to take a few seconds would LITERALLY take me a few hours.) > > I work for a large corporation--when they bought this system, they > bought some hours with a developer at RedDot. If I didn't have them > helping me through, I would still be trying to hook up my style > sheets! > > Sorry I can't help, but know you are not alone in your suffering! > > Also, just so you don't feel too bad, what would take me an afternoon > to set up in something like ModX has taken 3 months in RedDot (and > counting). > > -nestor > > > > On Jun 26, 9:49 am, Arsalan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm going through the EduSite practice exercises and I'm having a >> hard time with some of the stuff. Is there any manual or user guide >> that describes the general flow of creating a project in CMS ?? I >> got the general idea about the Content Class, Administer Project >> Structure etc but if I was given a new project to start from >> scratch, I would be COMPLETELY lost. >> >> Any help would be apprecaited. >> >> Thanks, >> Arsalan > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/RedDot-CMS-Users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
