RE: [Radiant] New Radiant powered site

2008-04-16 Thread Marcus Blankenship
Very nice! 

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Subject: [Radiant] New Radiant powered site

Hi all.

I wanted to say a big thank you to everyone involved in the Radiant
development and also to everyone contributing tips/suggestions on the
mailing list. I'm using Radiant for a fairly simple website and finding
it very easy to use and very flexible.

The website is

http://www.octopusgardenyoga.com

and it uses a few third-party extensions: gallery, reorder, scheduler,
and shards. A special thanks to the people who contributed these great
additions.

Again, thanks to all and if you have any questions about how our site
was constructed, please ask.
--
marshal
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[Radiant] Radiant and Flex

2008-10-02 Thread Marcus Blankenship
Say,

Is anyone using Radiant as a back-end for Flex/Flash applications?  I'd
like to try this, but was hoping to get some pointers.

Thanks,
Marcus

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RE: [Radiant] Radiant and Flex

2008-10-02 Thread Marcus Blankenship
First, let me acknowledge that Sean answered a very similar question to
this earlier this year, so I'm sorry for the repeat post.

I cannot find anyone on the net who's done this, so I may be barking up
a stump instead of a tree.  Let me see if I can explain why I was
considering it, and someone can tell me I'm crazy.

I currently drive my Flex content from the PHP CMS Drupal, which works
fine but feels like overkill for what I need.  My primary motivation is
quickly getting an HTML site behind my Flex application (for SEO
purposes).  Secondary, having Drupal/Radiant on the back-end gives the
site admins a way to easily update content without me having to re-code
anything.  

Drupal has an AMFPHP gateway module, which I can take advantage of in
Flex.  I think the way I could accomplish something similar with Radiant
would be to use data in XML (rss?).  Does this sound right?  Does rails
have any AMF libraries that could be integrated with Radiant?

Thanks in advance,
Marcus

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Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 12:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [Radiant] Radiant and Flex

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Marcus Blankenship
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 Say,

 Is anyone using Radiant as a back-end for Flex/Flash applications?  
 I'd like to try this, but was hoping to get some pointers.

You would probably want to write an extension that interfaces with the
flex application.  Not sure what the benefit of using Radiant would be
though.

Joe
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RE: [Radiant] Radiant and RubyAmf

2008-10-08 Thread Marcus Blankenship
Thanks for all the info.  I believe when you use RubyAMF, you basically
expose all your objects as AMF using scaffolding.  I'll play with it and
see where I get.  Are you pulling Radiant content into any Flash apps?

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Subject: Re: [Radiant] Radiant and RubyAmf

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Marcus Blankenship
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

 Thanks, Nate.  So, to clarify because I'm dense:
 1. I need to build an extension
 2. The archives/docs should show me how.

 Will I need to learn git to do this?


They should. You only really need to know git if you are manging your
code in that system. The only thing you really need to know about git
for installing extensions is that to add an extension to your project
from git you use the clone url from the project like so: git clone
http://address/of/project/name_of_extensionvendor/extensions/name_of_ext
ension
 . That will clone the git repo into
your extension folder. All of the rest of the info on extensions is on
the radiant website. Again, specific questions will usually get answered
here.



 As you may suspect, my end goal is to get either the content alone or 
 the stylized content (not sure which) from Radiant and display it in 
 Flex via AMF.  I intend to do my own styling in Flex, but I would like

 any HTML markup that the user may have entered.

 Does this seem feasible?


It sounds like you may want to expose your pages from radiant as xml
(use the page type XML). Then you can use whatever you want on the
front end to read and style that file accordingly. I don't know how that
figures into RubyAmf and what it does, though.


~Nate
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RE: [Radiant] Radiant T-Shirt design - Please give input!

2008-10-09 Thread Marcus Blankenship
How do we order? 

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Subject: Re: [Radiant] Radiant T-Shirt design - Please give input!

Okay, thanks for all of your responses.  I'm going to order today, going
with the left-front pocket area, logo with the text, nothing on the
back.  The first round of shirts will be black, but we may have other
options (including other designs) if the demand is enough.

Cheers,

Sean

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RE: [Radiant] Can Radiant be really easy to use for non-technicalcontent editors?

2008-11-18 Thread Marcus Blankenship
Everyone can get out their shotgun for what I'm about to say, but...
BigMedium CMS (www.globalmoxie.com) is an excellent example of a
user-friendly CMS that non-techies can use.  Maybe that could be our
model.  If you haven't played with it, you should, as Josh has done a
great job of abstracting the nerdy parts from users.

Marcus

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Subject: Re: [Radiant] Can Radiant be really easy to use for
non-technicalcontent editors?

I'd like to see this too. I use it for exactly this purpose, to give
non-technical people the ability to manage a simple website using a CMS.
To be honest, I think that the mostly technical person doesn't really
need an OS CMS, they can either hand code the HTML just as easily (maybe
run some scripts to generate naviation) and upload the files via ftp/svn
or write their own CMS. Its precisely when we have more complicated
needs (of which multiple, non-technical users is a likely one) that
Radiant becomes most useful.

I have some thoughts on this:

1) What would be awesome would be a WYSIWIG editor plugin that is an
EXTENSIBLE HTML/XML editor. This would allow one to create GUI elements
for all of the common radius tags (override creating links, for example,
putting an asset browser into there, etc) and have it create the
necessary markup. Maybe a markup WYSIWYG editor will allow this too but
I don't know of any
2) Normally when someone wants a custom template that captures something
specific (a news article or a product) really its just a way to more
seamlessly (and realiably) enforce content structure (here is you
headline, here is your kicker, a product image goes in this
box) but really all we want to do is generate structured markup for
various parts. It would be wonderful if one could create page
templates that imposed some sort of structure but behind the scenes
simply added a page to the database with a number of parts with
predefined markup. (I'm not sure if this is like the templates extension
Sean released.. Haven't had a chance to look at it). Making it part of
the pages structure keeps it clear where it appears.

On the other hand, you can tell your client that if they really want all
that they're looking at a system like Teamsite from Interwoven which
would probably cost them in the range of a half million plus 10% per
year (but don't forget to put your 4% markup on that)...

Adam



On 18-Nov-08, at 9:44 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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RE: [Radiant] Can Radiant be really easy to use for non-technicalcontent editors?

2008-11-19 Thread Marcus Blankenship
Another thought, crazy as it might be, would be to create a FLEX component that 
represents a content editor.  We do this on some of our flex apps, and it works 
well.  Here's an example:  
http://cfsilence.com/blog/tips/rte/bin/richTextEditor.cfm

This might allow for more control than JS based editors give, I'm not sure. 

Just another thought, from a FLEX nerd.

Marcus

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Casper Fabricius
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 10:21 AM
To: radiant@radiantcms.org
Subject: Re: [Radiant] Can Radiant be really easy to use for 
non-technicalcontent editors?

I am happy my frustrations resulted in some discussion and good ideas.  
The ideas for extensions for a scratch pad, filter toolbars and som WymEditor + 
paperclipped would all be highly usable to me, but I don't have the time to 
build any of them right now.

I have used TinyMCE filter for some projects, but it has - amongst other things 
- resulted in me having to say to the customer: No, you have to let me edit 
the frontpage, if you edit it, it will get messed up (Because TinyMCE has a 
habit of messing HTML up). But WymEditor might be more clean at that, so I 
think I'll try and use it.

The template extension can do many of the things you mention, such as providing 
custom forms for different templates, and allowing the user to select the 
appropriate template when clicking Add Child.

I'll let you know if I make any interesting discoveries along the way.

Med venlig hilsen / Best regards,
Casper Fabricius
http://casperfabricius.com

On 19/11/2008, at 10.19, Simon Rönnqvist wrote:

  Hi!

 Yes some WymEditor + paperclipped combination could be really cool.  
 I've never really used WymEditor for any of my clients.. but I've 
 tried both Markdown and a tightly configured TinyMCE (which would be 
 pretty close to WymEditor). With Markdown I've seen that the content 
 remains largely unstyled, the client eg. just used UPPERCASE-letters 
 for headings and so on... maybe a Markdown-toolbar would help 
 stimulate the usage of Markdown-code? With the TinyMCE solution again 
 stuff got marked up a bit inconsistently, and often using strong for 
 some headings, even though it didn't cause quite the mess that a 
 normal 'liberal' WYSIWYG would have.

 My guess is that using WymEditor would be a good way to give your 
 customer a way to try and express what she's looking for, but chances 
 are that you'll have to go in and clean up after her a few times... 
 but along with that you could also try to agree with her on certain 
 practices in the future, to retain consistency. I've been searching 
 for the perfect solution for quite some time, but I've begun thinking 
 that this last step of cleaning up and educating can't really be 
 avoided if you want perfect results... we can just try to minimize 
 this last task. Markdown+toolbar could also be something to try out, 
 but I fear it might still be considered a bit too intimidating (and 
 Textile I find even more intimidating).

 Another thing that I've been thinking that could be suitable for some 
 cases (but I haven't tried out) is in-place editing... but I don't 
 know how well that'd fit into Radiant. And yes forms (using your own 
 plug-in) or splitting content into many page parts could definitely 
 also in some cases be the right solution... but in cases where we want 
 to allow more flexibility, to allow the customer to structure their 
 content more freely... we're probably better off going with some 
 WymEditor-like solution + cleaning up and education.

 Apart from the actual editing of content, it'd be really cool to find 
 and easy way to hide some stuff in Radiant from the customer.
 Eg. some things such as the CSS and RSS things, and sometimes some 
 page-parts. And maybe in some cases even the popup menus: layout, page 
 type, status and filter.

  cheers, Simon
 PS. I begun the search for the perfect solution to this in my thesis, 
 if anyone's interested: http://simon.fi/en/thesis


 On Nov 18, 2008, at 20:46 , Mohit Sindhwani wrote:

 Casper Fabricius wrote:
 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.

 Casper, my solution would be to find a slightly more technical 
 client :P No, I'm joking (of course!)

 Here's what I would recommend:
 1. First, factor out as far as possible so that whatever is not page 
 specific is in snippets.
 2. If all she needs is a few styles of pages, I would create 
 different page types or layouts.
 3. Then tell her that the different parts that she wants need to go 
 into different page parts.  It would be cool if you could modify the 
 Add Child behavior to allow you to 

RE: [Radiant] Can Radiant be really easy to use fornon-technicalcontent editors?

2008-11-19 Thread Marcus Blankenship
Sorry, then.  Yes, the Flex language/compiler is open source, and that app was 
as well. 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Gehring
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 10:39 AM
To: radiant@radiantcms.org
Subject: Re: [Radiant] Can Radiant be really easy to use 
fornon-technicalcontent editors?

Off topic, possibly...

But is that FLEX app open source?

Andrew

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Marcus Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Another thought, crazy as it might be, would be to create a FLEX 
 component that represents a content editor.  We do this on some of our 
 flex apps, and it works well.  Here's an example:  
 http://cfsilence.com/blog/tips/rte/bin/richTextEditor.cfm

 This might allow for more control than JS based editors give, I'm not sure.

 Just another thought, from a FLEX nerd.

 Marcus

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Casper Fabricius
 Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 10:21 AM
 To: radiant@radiantcms.org
 Subject: Re: [Radiant] Can Radiant be really easy to use for 
 non-technicalcontent editors?

 I am happy my frustrations resulted in some discussion and good ideas.
 The ideas for extensions for a scratch pad, filter toolbars and som WymEditor 
 + paperclipped would all be highly usable to me, but I don't have the time to 
 build any of them right now.

 I have used TinyMCE filter for some projects, but it has - amongst other 
 things - resulted in me having to say to the customer: No, you have to let 
 me edit the frontpage, if you edit it, it will get messed up (Because 
 TinyMCE has a habit of messing HTML up). But WymEditor might be more clean at 
 that, so I think I'll try and use it.

 The template extension can do many of the things you mention, such as 
 providing custom forms for different templates, and allowing the user to 
 select the appropriate template when clicking Add Child.

 I'll let you know if I make any interesting discoveries along the way.

 Med venlig hilsen / Best regards,
 Casper Fabricius
 http://casperfabricius.com

 On 19/11/2008, at 10.19, Simon Rönnqvist wrote:

  Hi!

 Yes some WymEditor + paperclipped combination could be really cool.
 I've never really used WymEditor for any of my clients.. but I've 
 tried both Markdown and a tightly configured TinyMCE (which would be 
 pretty close to WymEditor). With Markdown I've seen that the content 
 remains largely unstyled, the client eg. just used UPPERCASE-letters 
 for headings and so on... maybe a Markdown-toolbar would help 
 stimulate the usage of Markdown-code? With the TinyMCE solution again 
 stuff got marked up a bit inconsistently, and often using strong 
 for some headings, even though it didn't cause quite the mess that a 
 normal 'liberal' WYSIWYG would have.

 My guess is that using WymEditor would be a good way to give your 
 customer a way to try and express what she's looking for, but chances 
 are that you'll have to go in and clean up after her a few times...
 but along with that you could also try to agree with her on certain 
 practices in the future, to retain consistency. I've been searching 
 for the perfect solution for quite some time, but I've begun thinking 
 that this last step of cleaning up and educating can't really be 
 avoided if you want perfect results... we can just try to minimize 
 this last task. Markdown+toolbar could also be something to try out, 
 but I fear it might still be considered a bit too intimidating (and 
 Textile I find even more intimidating).

 Another thing that I've been thinking that could be suitable for some 
 cases (but I haven't tried out) is in-place editing... but I don't 
 know how well that'd fit into Radiant. And yes forms (using your own
 plug-in) or splitting content into many page parts could definitely 
 also in some cases be the right solution... but in cases where we 
 want to allow more flexibility, to allow the customer to structure 
 their content more freely... we're probably better off going with 
 some WymEditor-like solution + cleaning up and education.

 Apart from the actual editing of content, it'd be really cool to find 
 and easy way to hide some stuff in Radiant from the customer.
 Eg. some things such as the CSS and RSS things, and sometimes some 
 page-parts. And maybe in some cases even the popup menus: layout, 
 page type, status and filter.

  cheers, Simon
 PS. I begun the search for the perfect solution to this in my thesis, 
 if anyone's interested: http://simon.fi/en/thesis


 On Nov 18, 2008, at 20:46 , Mohit Sindhwani wrote:

 Casper Fabricius wrote:
 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

RE: [Radiant] Can Radiant be really easy to usefornon-technicalcontent editors?

2008-11-19 Thread Marcus Blankenship
Oh, sorry. ;-)

This is the original page, and has a source link.  
(http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mc/archives/disclosableRTE.zip)

If you like that sort of thing, here's a few more flex resources.  Forgive if 
this if off topic.

Adobe Flex downloads page: http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/flexdownloads/
Nice, free actionscript / Flex IDE: http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/

I you want any help getting it compiled/changed/working, let me know.  

Marcus 

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Gehring
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 10:45 AM
To: radiant@radiantcms.org
Subject: Re: [Radiant] Can Radiant be really easy to usefornon-technicalcontent 
editors?

I didn't mean your post was off topic, I meant mine might be :-)

What/where is the source to the app?

Thanks,
Andrew

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Marcus Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Sorry, then.  Yes, the Flex language/compiler is open source, and that app 
 was as well.

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Gehring
 Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 10:39 AM
 To: radiant@radiantcms.org
 Subject: Re: [Radiant] Can Radiant be really easy to use 
 fornon-technicalcontent editors?

 Off topic, possibly...

 But is that FLEX app open source?

 Andrew

 On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Marcus Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote:
 Another thought, crazy as it might be, would be to create a FLEX 
 component that represents a content editor.  We do this on some of 
 our flex apps, and it works well.  Here's an example:
 http://cfsilence.com/blog/tips/rte/bin/richTextEditor.cfm

 This might allow for more control than JS based editors give, I'm not sure.

 Just another thought, from a FLEX nerd.

 Marcus

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Casper Fabricius
 Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 10:21 AM
 To: radiant@radiantcms.org
 Subject: Re: [Radiant] Can Radiant be really easy to use for 
 non-technicalcontent editors?

 I am happy my frustrations resulted in some discussion and good ideas.
 The ideas for extensions for a scratch pad, filter toolbars and som 
 WymEditor + paperclipped would all be highly usable to me, but I don't have 
 the time to build any of them right now.

 I have used TinyMCE filter for some projects, but it has - amongst other 
 things - resulted in me having to say to the customer: No, you have to let 
 me edit the frontpage, if you edit it, it will get messed up (Because 
 TinyMCE has a habit of messing HTML up). But WymEditor might be more clean 
 at that, so I think I'll try and use it.

 The template extension can do many of the things you mention, such as 
 providing custom forms for different templates, and allowing the user to 
 select the appropriate template when clicking Add Child.

 I'll let you know if I make any interesting discoveries along the way.

 Med venlig hilsen / Best regards,
 Casper Fabricius
 http://casperfabricius.com

 On 19/11/2008, at 10.19, Simon Rönnqvist wrote:

  Hi!

 Yes some WymEditor + paperclipped combination could be really cool.
 I've never really used WymEditor for any of my clients.. but I've 
 tried both Markdown and a tightly configured TinyMCE (which would be 
 pretty close to WymEditor). With Markdown I've seen that the content 
 remains largely unstyled, the client eg. just used UPPERCASE-letters 
 for headings and so on... maybe a Markdown-toolbar would help 
 stimulate the usage of Markdown-code? With the TinyMCE solution 
 again stuff got marked up a bit inconsistently, and often using 
 strong for some headings, even though it didn't cause quite the 
 mess that a normal 'liberal' WYSIWYG would have.

 My guess is that using WymEditor would be a good way to give your 
 customer a way to try and express what she's looking for, but 
 chances are that you'll have to go in and clean up after her a few times...
 but along with that you could also try to agree with her on certain 
 practices in the future, to retain consistency. I've been searching 
 for the perfect solution for quite some time, but I've begun 
 thinking that this last step of cleaning up and educating can't 
 really be avoided if you want perfect results... we can just try to 
 minimize this last task. Markdown+toolbar could also be something to 
 try out, but I fear it might still be considered a bit too 
 intimidating (and Textile I find even more intimidating).

 Another thing that I've been thinking that could be suitable for 
 some cases (but I haven't tried out) is in-place editing... but I 
 don't know how well that'd fit into Radiant. And yes forms (using 
 your own
 plug-in) or splitting content into many page parts could definitely 
 also in some cases be the right solution... but in cases where we 
 want to allow more flexibility, to allow the customer to structure 
 their content more freely... we're

RE: [Radiant] If you love radiant but need ecommerce what's the bestsolution

2008-11-26 Thread Marcus Blankenship
Okay, my vote for best eCommerce solution, anywhere, is Magento. 
(www.magentocommerce.com) I love it very much! ;-)

Marcus

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Rönnqvist
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:28 PM
To: radiant@radiantcms.org
Subject: Re: [Radiant] If you love radiant but need ecommerce what's the 
bestsolution

   Hi!

I've found the shopping module Übercart for Drupal really good. Of course 
Drupal is PHP-based and all... but really flexible and has a lot of other 
modules, so very seldom I find myself coding PHP when using Drupal anyways. 
Generally speaking I use Drupal for more advanced sites, with lots of features, 
although pretty standard ones (so that you can find ready made modules for 
them)... while as Radiant CMS again is more appropriate for simpler sites when 
you want things working your way without much hassle and configuration.

http://www.ubercart.org/

   cheers, Simon
PS. There's also the Drupal E-commerce module, but I find Übercart more ready 
out of the box.. and its community seems more active too.


On Nov 26, 2008, at 22:17 , Steven Southard wrote:

 Radiant is such a nice platform to develop on that it really pains me 
 to choose another CMS for an upcoming website.  It's mainly a brochure 
 site but they also sell about 50 products.  They currently have an 
 outdated CMS and a yahoo shopping cart.  They want to move forward 
 with an integrated approach.  I've been trying out Substruct which has 
 both of these features.  The Cart is great but the CMS just fall short 
 of what I've gotten accustom to.  Mainly, there's no control of the 
 layout or CSS from the back-end.  It might be
 possible to fix that but I'm not sure how much work it would be.   
 I've also looked at Spree.  It looks okay for a cart but doesn't seem 
 to have any other CMS type functions.  Maybe it would work well side 
 by side with Radiant or as sub domain but I don't see any way it could 
 be integrated.

 What are some other approach people have taken to give this type of 
 client what they need?

 Steven

 http://www.stevensouthard.com
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RE: [Radiant] If you love radiant but need ecommerce what's the bestsolution

2008-11-26 Thread Marcus Blankenship
Steven,

Just checked out your home page.  You do nice work!

Marcus 

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Southard
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:18 PM
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Subject: [Radiant] If you love radiant but need ecommerce what's the
bestsolution

Radiant is such a nice platform to develop on that it really pains me to
choose another CMS for an upcoming website.  It's mainly a brochure site
but they also sell about 50 products.  They currently have an outdated
CMS and a yahoo shopping cart.  They want to move forward with an
integrated approach.  I've been trying out Substruct which has both of
these features.  The Cart is great but the CMS just fall short of what
I've gotten accustom to.  Mainly, there's no control of the layout or
CSS from the back-end.  It might be possible to fix that but  
I'm not sure how much work it would be.  I've also looked at Spree.   
It looks okay for a cart but doesn't seem to have any other CMS type
functions.  Maybe it would work well side by side with Radiant or as sub
domain but I don't see any way it could be integrated.

What are some other approach people have taken to give this type of
client what they need?

Steven

http://www.stevensouthard.com
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RE: [Radiant] Available for contracts

2009-04-01 Thread Marcus Blankenship
Sean, what is your contact info? 

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[mailto:radiant-boun...@radiantcms.org] On Behalf Of Sean Cribbs
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 4:02 PM
To: radiant@radiantcms.org; radiantcms-...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [Radiant] Available for contracts

This is just a notice that I am available for consulting and development
on Radiant, Rails, Ruby and Erlang projects, up to about 25 hours a
week.  I have been doing Ruby on Rails for over 3 years and Radiant for
nearly that long.  Please contact me privately if you are interested.

Cheers,

Sean Cribbs

P.S. Apologies to those who receive this more than once.
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