I've looked at Farcry and like lots of my colleagues, I've decided it's too far-removed from coldfusion to use. Unless you're a spectra-head, the whole dictionary of terminology is different and very arcane, I find. I looked at it very closely (I've got a lot at stake and some practical background with CMS) and decided that if you want to do what the developers of FarCry have designed in, it's a piece of cake. IF you want to do anything different, you better be willing to learn an entire new vocabulary.
I don't think it was ever designed with shared environments in mind, and finding out how to set it up for shared environments has been a long and wearying road for me. I'm still not willing to attempt setting it up on my server. There is a lot of the app outside the site, and that is a worry in a shared environment. One of the main reasons for having a CMS is you want to allow non-technical people to update the site safely. I tried my test app on a dozen non-technical people, and not one of them could find out how to add a page without having to be shown where it was. In short, FarCry is a brilliant CMS, except that I think the development is a spectra-head's dream, and they haven't had enough input from non-technical people. It's like a lot of stuff coming from Daemon - they always make me feel like I'm a lesser class of mortal because I don't fly in the higher stratosphere where they live, and I don't know every nuance of every Macromedia product. My advice: Look at FarCry. If you need the features they've built into it, and if you have your own server, fantastic. It's going to be quick and easy to get up and going and you can spend your time building content. If you want anything different to what's provided in the product as delivered, you better know a lot about spectra or be prepared to dump all your CF terminology and learn new terminology. If neither of these ... keep on looking, or write your own. I've written my own with less than half the features but it does exactly what I need and it took a fraction of the time to get going as my trial FarCy install did. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com -----Original Message----- From: Mark Stanton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 28 January 2004 5:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] New CMS / Framework Hey Justin That's a very big call - best of luck to you. But before you jump in can I suggest you look at http://farcry.daemon.com.au. Ok its Coldfusion based & not PHP, but CF will cost you a few thousand dollars & that is a tiny amount to pay for a product (farcry) of this quality. This is seriously a mature, powerful product & there is an extremely active development community behind it. Please do yourself a favour & a have a long hard look at this even if its just to review what a good CMS should do. Cheers Mark ------------------ Mark Stanton Technical Director Gruden Pty Ltd Tel: 9956 6388 Mob: 0410 458 201 Fax: 9956 8433 http://www.gruden.com ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *****************************************************
