Is CMF worth investing the wicked steep learning curve. I really am banging my head against the wall with it. Mainly in terms of how to make it look like and feel like a normal website and not one that members need to know what folder an article is published in. It's all very confusing to me, but I se the benefits. What's your opinions? Jacob Singh P.S. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about: http://cmf.zope.org
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Is CMF worth investing the wicked steep learning curve. I really am banging my head against the wall with it. Mainly in terms of how to make it look like and feel like a normal website and not one that members need to know what folder an article is published in. It's all very confusing to me, but I se the benefits. What's your opinions?
I've tried to use it for a micro-intranet test project in my company. But to get the car rolling seems to need mystic capabilities and a long life like Buffy's Angel. So I let it be and write my one stuff. It might be nice, but needs to much energy and time to use it. greetings Hans
HNBeck@t-online.de (Hans N. Beck) writes:
I've tried to use it for a micro-intranet test project in my company. But to get the car rolling seems to need mystic capabilities and a long life like Buffy's Angel. So I let it be and write my one stuff. It might be nice, but needs to much energy and time to use it.
I have made a CMFDefault-Site (http://www.netzliteratur.de) which is very ugly. A designer is working on it. I told her to make a XHTML 1.0 Site with a nice StyleSheet. I really do not know if I ever will be able to make a useful skin out of her ideas. I will try to extract the bones of logic out of the CMFDefault-Site wrapping it into a complete new PageLayout. So maybe next week you will hear my deperate cries! ;-) Ciao! juh -- Der dornige Zweig der Abderiten-Familie http://www.sudelbuch.de/2001/20010221.html
Useful for: - indexing, metadata, skinning, workflow, some membership / registration stuff - websites which work like zope.org Useless (out of the box) for: - using the CMFDefault site to build anything you're likely to want to build (i.e. non-zope-org style) - building a complex site without getting your hands dirty with python Think of it like a toolkit of python snippets, all of which are useful for building sites with the attributes listed above. If you're comfortable with building python products, it's a very useful toolkit, and worth learning. If you're after something simple, quick, and easy, I wouldn't bother. Personally, I've found it invaluable, but I've invested a lot of time in grokking it. hth seb ----- Original Message ----- From: Jacob Singh <jacob@prisonbooks.org> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 4:56 PM Subject: [Zope] CMF, like it? hate it? why? other options?
Is CMF worth investing the wicked steep learning curve. I really am banging my head against the wall with it. Mainly in terms of how to make it look like and feel like a normal website and not one that members need to know what folder an article is published in. It's all very confusing to me, but I se the benefits. What's your opinions? Jacob Singh
P.S. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about: http://cmf.zope.org
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On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 09:56, Jacob Singh wrote:
Is CMF worth investing the wicked steep learning curve. I really am banging my head against the wall with it. Mainly in terms of how to make it look like and feel like a normal website and not one that members need to know what folder an article is published in. It's all
Uhh, unless you provide links, you need to know what folder a given document is in on *any* website. If you need a site with membership, and one where members need to have a low bar for content addition, then CF is appropriate.If not, well, it is a *FRANEWORK*, not an out of the box website, and you'll have to do development. This is true regardless of CMF. Zope serves almost no needs 100% out of the box. Heck I even use it for a site where only I publish content. I use the document, news item, and some semi-cloned document objects, to provide what I need almost effortlessly. Just as with any tool, it depends on your need. A hammer can drive a screw, but a screwdriver is better. If you are having a hard time, you may want to reconsider if CMF is the right tool for your job. Bill
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