[kdewebdev-site] redesign of the quanta web site

[Philipp Wendisch]

Andras Mantia wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 April 2007, Philipp Wendisch wrote:
>> Andras Mantia wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 17 April 2007, Philipp Wendisch wrote:
>>>> yes it is, i work on debian, and it's quite simple. drupal comes
>>>> with its own installer. but actually i rather use typo3 instead of
>>>> having to deal with drupal, beside the fact that drupal is mysql-
>>>> and postgresql-only.
>>> So I have no idea what is typo3. Any link how to install drupal on
>>> Debian? I assume it is not that simple like "apt-get install
>>> drupal".
>> yes, but it is very easy, grab the tarball form drupal.org, unpack it
>> and run the install-script from your browser. it is quite straight
>> forward
> 
> The server where this should run is in a remote place (without X 
> installed), but I have full rights to it. Do I run the install script 
> on my browser at my local computer? Well, I will see it later (once I 
> get some time for this), but if you have the answer/experience, I'd be 
> glad to hear it.
> 
>> typo3 is another cms, it is very powerful. and  -yes- there is a
>> debian package available ;-) a little search on apt-get.org reveals
>> where to find it
>> http://www1.apt-get.org/search.php?query=typo3&submit=Anfrage+abschic
>> ken&arch%5B%5D=i386&arch%5B%5D=all
> 
> Good this apt-get.org. I'm not a Debian guru, my system runs suse, but 
> the server where kdewebdev.org is hosted is a debian one, this is why 
> I'm asking about debian.
debian is my favourite right after slackware
> 
>> but after all before discussing wether to use a ready made cms, would
>> there be any effort? ok I do not have access to the website-svn, but
>> before switching it yould be interesting to know wether it would be a
>> waste of the already existing code or not. would it make sense?
> 
> Surely we will waste some code. The question is how useful would be a 
> CMS in the end, when you think about maintenance, adding new features 
> (like rss feeds, blogs, forums), updating its look and feel and so on. 

most systems come along with all these features, so it would only be neccessary
to migrate already existing code into a new model without having to change the
underlying logic, or only with little modifications.

> I don't know the answer for these questions as I never used any CMS.
> I wrote part of the kdewebdev.org code to easy our work as much as 
> possible regarding adding new releases, news, sub-sites and all these 
> from Quanta itself, so it is basicly also a test-bed for Quanta. I'd 
> like to continue to use Quanta in the future as well to maintain the 
> site, but would be interesting to see how Quanta can be made to work 
> together with a CMS.
>  After all it comes down to the same thing: make the site easier to 
> maintain and develop.
> 
> Andras

basically quanta can be integrated with all cms-systems. mainly for developing
templates or new plugins, what I currently do for our typo3-customers. What
might also be an idea is to write some kommander programs to communicate with
the cms-backend. create a toolbar and there you go. but this sometimes is a
very complex task because you would have to reimplement logic of the cms in
kommander, which would not really make much sense, would it? I never did it,
because I cannot make our customers use quanta, they will go crazy. ;-)

Philipp

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Philipp Wendisch

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