Re: [WSG] RE: [WSG} CMS and Site Design

2007-12-04 Thread nate hanna
Lyn, I'm also a big Textpattern fan and have done some custom plug-in development for it on a per client basis. I find that for the end client Textpattern is easy to understand and follow once they grasp Textile the mark-up language. If they struggle with Textile there is a plug-in for

RE: [WSG] RE: [WSG} CMS and Site Design

2007-12-04 Thread Amanda Snelling
# Cheers Amanda From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nate hanna Sent: Wednesday, 5 December 2007 1:32 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] RE: [WSG} CMS and Site Design Lyn, I'm also a big Textpattern fan and have done some custom plug

RE: [WSG] RE: [WSG} CMS and Site Design

2007-12-04 Thread Amanda Snelling
# Cheers Amanda From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nate hanna Sent: Wednesday, 5 December 2007 1:32 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] RE: [WSG} CMS and Site Design Lyn, I'm also a big Textpattern fan and have done some custom plug

[WSG] CMS and site design

2007-12-03 Thread Lyn Patterson
I have never had to use a CMS and know very little about them. I have a client who wants to update his site himself and my hosting company supports Joomla. My question is: do I design the site in the normal way and then append the CMS or is the site designed within Joomla? Am I restricted

RE: [WSG] CMS and site design

2007-12-03 Thread Paul Bennett
sites before, there can be quite a learning curve... :) Paul From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lyn Patterson Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 11:39 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] CMS and site design I have never had

Re: [WSG] CMS and site design

2007-12-03 Thread Adam Martin
Hi Lyn, I have worked with Joomla! quite a bit - and do be honest I am not a great fan. It is quite powerful in what you can do with it. Too answer your question you are not limited in your design, however there is a bit of a learning curve when it comes to Joomla! Also, you do not do your design

Re: [WSG] CMS and site design

2007-12-03 Thread John Faulds
I'd think a little bit more about what you want your CMS to do before jumping in with Joomla. I've only given it a cursory look over before because I wasn't that impressed particularly by the sort of templating it uses and the code it outputs. If your client just wants to edit pages

Re: [WSG] CMS and site design

2007-12-03 Thread Minh D. Tran
Hi Lyn, Personally, I had a bad experience working with joomla, and as a CMS, my clients are not big fans either. I found it easier to build my own CMS for the clients. MT Adam Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Lyn, I have worked with Joomla! quite a bit - and do be honest I am not a great

Re: [WSG] CMS and site design

2007-12-03 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 04-Dec-07, at 4:09 AM, Lyn Patterson wrote: I have never had to use a CMS and know very little about them. I have a client who wants to update his site himself and my hosting company supports Joomla. My question is: do I design the site in the normal way and then append the CMS or

Re: [WSG] CMS and site design

2007-12-03 Thread Jixor - Stephen I
I would firstly consider what the content that your client wants to be able to update himself actually is. If its highly complicated then you might want to try to convince your client that it is not a good idea to update it themselves. That said I try to convince all clients regardless of job

[WSG] RE: [WSG} CMS and Site Design

2007-12-03 Thread Lyn Patterson
Thanks Stephen and Rahul Yes, I always try to do all updating myself and this is the first client that really needs to do it as it will be a fairly frequent event. I had a talk to him and it will only be replacing one photo with another and changing a bit of text so nothing too onerous.

Re: [WSG] CMS and site design

2007-12-03 Thread Michael Horowitz
What is it you like best about texpattern. I've done one Mambo site and really wasn't happy at all with they system once I learned it. Michael Horowitz Your Computer Consultant http://yourcomputerconsultant.com 561-394-9079 Rahul Gonsalves wrote: On 04-Dec-07, at 4:09 AM, Lyn Patterson

Re: [WSG] CMS and site design

2007-12-03 Thread Jixor - Stephen I
This makes me think does anyone know of a really good comparison table, I have seen some that just have a few technical features listed but they actually are fairly useless for most concerns. Michael Horowitz wrote: What is it you like best about texpattern. I've done one Mambo site and

Re: [WSG] CMS and site design

2007-12-03 Thread lisa . kerrigan
Subject Re: [WSG] CMS and site design 04/12/2007 05:08 PM