[Digikam-devel] New backend for website.

[Maxime Delorme]

My biggest objection is that I don't speech dutch.
But I speak fluently php, html, javascript.
No user management is IMHO a big missing feature
Maybe tonight I will install Mambo...
Tom Albers wrote:

>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
>  
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-devel/attachments/20050816/c06b72c0/attachment.html>