Hi, I am also a new user of Radiant. I now have it up and running for my website http://www.gilfachequiation.co.uk.
I have used Radiant 0.9, extended with paperclipped for the images and reorder for getting the buttons in the order I want. I have also installed fckeditor. I would prefer to use Tiny MCE but I have not been able to get it to work with paperclipped. My website is hosted on a Joyent shared hosting server. I can say that I am very pleased with Radiant because it does exactly what I want in an easily understandable way. However, I have also to say that it has been a nightmare to get it up and running. Endless problems with Gem versions, things not working and the Joyent instructions not being quite spot on. MediaMaid looked really cool - but I couldn't get it to work. Paperclipped uploader is a really good idea, but the button doesn't appear so you have to figure out the URL. Tiny MCE extension would be nice, but I have spent fruitless time on it. One thing I would say to a new user of Radiant: beware of which environment you are installing your extensions to! Regards, Hugh Macmillan On Aug 28, 8:58 pm, Mike <mber...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm new to Radiant and want to use it on a simple project I'm doing > for one of my brothers, a graphic designer. The site is approximately > 5 pages (Home, About, Design, etc..). Each of the pages will have a > bit of text that should be editable. The home page will have a brief > 6 image gallery of his best work while both the photography and design > pages will include more in depth portfolios. > > Essentially, since I'm new to Radiant, I'd like to get a head start by > learning which extensions and systems of thought would work best for > such a project. Once the site is done, my brother will be managing > the upkeep of content. > > Pointers to good extensions for: galleries, photo upload, code > editing, etc would be greatly appreciated. > > I'm a programmer and am very fond of writing my code in a rich > environment with syntax highlighting and other helps. It's going to > be a bit of a stretch to just use white and black, so if any of you > have found a better way, let me know. > > Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
