Hi all, I'm an experienced Java/Spring/Tomcat developer and find Magnolia a familiar environment. However, I'm new to Magnolia and need a little conceptual development bootstrapping help. I'm admittedly weak on CSS and using a CMS to author content that gets rendered with the CSS's look and feel. That having been said, I think I don't need too much help -- just enough to get started. For example, I'm familiar enough with tools & technologies like Sitemesh, JSP, Freemarker, etc, but only insofar as using them for database-driven presentation tiers.
My goal is to build a simple but professional looking content-managed site using Magnolia -- no initial need for database-driven stuff. What I'm looking for is conceptual help getting started, essentially a cookbook/recipe on how to bootstrap development using Magnolia, starting from zero except for knowing Java, Tomcat, MySQL and/or Derby well. Conceptual questions on my mind: * What are the best practices in terms of project module organization (Maven, etc)? * If I want my site to be essentially a self-contained WAR, what's the best choice for Jackrabbit configuration? In particular, where should I land on the spectrum of an exclusively file-based, database-less repository, to a file-based database-backed repository (Derby-based?), to a network-based database-backed repository (MySQL-based)? * What are the best practices with regard to version control: whole-repository and individual-content versioning, site versioning, and transacted site upgrades? * What are the best practices for back-ups? * What would the step-by-step instructions (plain English is fine) in order to get started if I all I have in my hands are my shiny new CSS file ready to author content against, a running Tomcat installation dedicated to the site, and Derby/MySQL? I apologize in advance if these questions seem a little haphazard or weird -- I attribute it to my lack of familiarity with Magnolia, and I haven't been able to find that crucial "conceptual getting started" tutorial in the Magnolia docs. I'll happily accept RTFMs, too, but I've read quite a bit of the docs and viewed a couple of the videos on the Magnolia site. :) Thanks in advance, Matthew ---------------------------------------------------------------- For list details see http://www.magnolia-cms.com/home/community/mailing-lists.html To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> ----------------------------------------------------------------
