On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 22:28, Wendell Dingus wrote: > PS. I followed the Midgard installation instructions available on the > Aegir www.aegir-cms.org site. Hooray for good open source install docs > for a change!
:-) It seems that the install documentation is quite OK now. The next focus area then should be usage documentation. "How to build stuff with Midgard". /Bergie I could definitely use some of that documentation! Along those lines I have gotten far enough along in understanding Midgard and Aegir to finally ask a few questions. 1) Aegir's about page has a section on Multi-company hosting (ASP) support and specifically mentions "User interface can be customized to support ASP provider's brand." If I'm perhaps hosting 50 customer virtual sites on one physical server can I have the Aegir login screen be "branded" specifically for them? I don't want a drop-down box showing all the other customers on the server for instance. I want them to think it's all theirs whether it is or not. Would I need to write it or does something exist? 2) Are there any additional templates available for download besides the "simple dynamic site"? I learn best by example so hopefully the aforementioned documentation will contain lots! 3) Code snippets, styles, etc.. Forms? Polls? Forums? E-Commerce? Banner Ad Management? Mailing lists? Any resources for getting more finished ready-to-go code? Commercialy available even? Concerning #3: We've got some salesmen wanting to setup sites for a lot of customers. They can not write PHP code and generally just help the end-users with the "content management" portion of things. I realize Midgard is a framework for building content managed sites and that Aegir is something that can do that. What about solutions with an even easier interface than Aegir that rather non-web-literate folks can use? These guys are used to using some in-house web frontend software a local web company wrote to manage customers sites. This "wizard" software is written mostly in PERL and looks very polished and slick from the browser but is quite messy internally. I evaluated a copy from them and immediately went looking at open source and commercial solutions elsewhere. eZpublish http://shop.ez.no/article/view/398 looks interesting and has a somewhat similar interface to their software. I hope I'm making sense here... I like Aegir but the learning curve is steep, a lot of "coding" must be done to get active components on a site, etc... If I wanted to make building an active Midgard-based site more "cookie cutter" in nature does anything exist? Perhaps in the form of finished snippets and bits of code managable by Aegir? Has any providers written a good library of routines they'd like to share? Commercially? For free with commercial support instead perhaps? For free totally? :) I hope nobody who has put a lot of time and effort into Midgard and related products takes offense! It's darn powerful for what it is... Perhaps it's not what I need for my staff to utilize though. I'm just not sure.. Can anyone make any suggestions of commercial CMS applications that sound like they might fit the bill? Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
