[Digikam-devel] New backend for website.

[Tom Albers]

Hello, 

I just heard via Jörn that the new webmasters also have problems with SPIP as 
a backend. 

Yesterday evening I really had it with that backend and decided to see if I 
was able to recreate the site, with a different backend. 

I managed to do that after a couple of hours. You can see the result at 
www2.digikam.org (spot the 10 differences ;-). 

let me start with some statistics:
# du -s -h *
103M    www
30M     www2 (the site is actually just one dynamic page, the rest are 
screenies)

spip database: +- 213 tables
new database: 2 tables (articles && news)

I think that is pretty impressive. The new cms I put into place at www2 is 
somewhat limited in comparisation with SPIP. Let me point out the 
differences:

- www2 has no user management functions, you can not assign more or less 
rights to certain users. 
- www2 has no capabilities for a contest or a poll as we had for the 
splashscreen contest
- the backend of www2 uses ordanary html. That means _no_ wysiwyg, no special 
notation of urls (just a href's). Knowledge of html is now needed.
- there is no search function atm
- the backend is standard KovoKs-stuff, hence it is in dutch. If we choose to 
use this, I shall translate it. 

You can see an example of the backend in the screenshot which I included, as 
you can see it is very basic. 

We can now choose to switch to this system (i can do that in a matter of 
minutes) or we can choose to continue with SPIP (which i don't think any of 
us really want) or we can do something with mambo or drupal (which as an cms 
will look a lot better then the version I have now put in place.

What do you all think, especially the new webmasters?

Tom
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