[webdev] Re: Other Content Management Systems (CMS)

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: webdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:webdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
> Of Tom Hull
> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 1:47 AM
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> Subject: [webdev] Re: Other Content Management Systems (CMS)
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> Dale W Hodge wrote:
> >>if you really think PostNuke is a better way to go, let's
> >>see some proof-of-concept.
> >
> >
> > Okay, proof of concept.  Log into http://aclug.neuralmatrix.org  I
> just spent 30
> > minutes and set up a new site. If you want admin access, just email
> me and I'll
> > set you up an account.
>
> I tried to set up a user account, but it didn't return mail to me. Lots of
> things are inaccessible without an account.

I'll do some checking to see what's wrong.  I literally spent less than an hour
setting up what you see.  I didn't check all the modules to see if they worked.

> Some minor quibbles:
>
>   * I think the minimum age 13 thing is silly. You can't validate it,
> so all it
>     does is train kids to lie. (Easy to disable.)

Right.

>   * I never found a way to edit the Modules menu. "Recommend Us" is pretty
>     useless; I don't know what "AvantGo" means; in all cases the concept of
>     Modules is uninteresting to mere users.

There's a couple of ways, the easiest is to load the module "MenuEdit", which
gives you a nice editor.  AvantGo lets you format your content so it can be
synced to a palmtop device.  Probably not useful and easy to turn off.

>   * The "Who's Online" block is also dead weight. This isn't IRC. In fact the
>     notion of being online using a stateless protocol is rather silly.

True, but it does let you see that someone else is using the site, that it's not
'dead'.

>   * The "Languages" block is also dead weight (at least until you're ready to
>     support Spanish or something).

Also easy to kill. The languages only really changes the menu, anyways.

> Glad to see the link to the Residential Gateway article. Thanks.

I'll see what I can fix later today.

--dwh

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