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By: behind AotW » Blog Archive » Building on a CMS 2

behind AotW » Blog Archive » Building on a CMS 2 — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:26:05 +0000

[...] This time crunch has tightly focused the effort I told you about in a December post about an off-the-shelf content management system (CMS) as basis for a website. To recap: I’m working a pro bono project to help a worthy historical non-profit upgrade their online presence. Last we talked I had built a demo website on WordPress and was planning to migrate to the more sophisticated Textpattern platform. [...]

By: Amy Stephen

Amy Stephen — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:36:48 +0000

Brian -

I had to find *something* to say about your article! lol… And, yes, Joomla! is spelled with an exclamation point which does, indeed, take some getting used to.

We have had long discussions on how Joomla! is used in sentences constructed with grammatical correctness. In all cases, the exclamation point is included – in the case with the sentence already ending in an exclamation point, a second exclamation mark is omitted. (i.e., Joomla!, not Joomla!!).

Of course, that rule is set aside in the case that you are exclaiming your true commitment. In such a case, it is correct to say “I love Joomla!!!!”

Please let me know if you ever have any Joomla! questions, especially those like the one I have answered above where there is actually very little thinking involved.

Thanks for your comments,
Amy

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 02:14:30 +0000

Hi Cathy .. but now you’re unmasked as the anonymous expert!

I don’t know about all the time I have. If I keep up my present pace on this interweb business instead of what I’m supposed to be doing at home, I’m going to be made a childless bachelor.

By: misschatter

misschatter — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:49:35 +0000

Thanks for the honest review, even if my suggestion wasn’t quite what you were looking for! One thing I do for non-techie users I build sites for is disable the login on the main pages, but give them a link to the login page to bookmark. Then on the backend I give them publisher rights so that the edit icon appears on pages and they can WYSIWYG them inside the Joomla website and never have to log into the back end. They also get a “submit content” link on their user menu for creating new articles. It seems to work so far (although, that table layout you mention does get in the way of the ’save’, ‘cancel’ buttons).

I’m very interested in your TextPattern review. You seem to have more time to play with all this stuff than I do!

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:35:30 +0000

misspellings fixed (thanx Amy):
advertized, enopugh, chioices, goodby …

.. and Joomla is really Joomla!, but who could navigate a sentence with that in the middle?

By: Joomla! Honest evaluations and HTML tables at Amy Stephen

Joomla! Honest evaluations and HTML tables at Amy Stephen — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:20:38 +0000

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