Hm. WYSIWYG and AJAX actually were the least impressive features to me... :)
When I find time I'll try to point out what impressed me. "Try" because it's not that easy for me to grasp why a software just feels right and intuitive and "just working". Regards, Markus On Sep 28, 11:23 pm, The Editor <[email protected]> wrote: > Markus, feel free to suggest specific ways to improve BoltWire. > Particularly ideas about organization, or administration and the like, > from their software. I'm always looking for fresh ideas. It is > interesting the parallels in language they use to describe their > system (legos, concrete). I'm curious if they have truly innovative > ideas in terms of their engine/architecture, that might go beyond the > ajax interface? > > I spent a few moments looking at their site and like the ajax > interface for editing of course. I would love something like that for > BoltWire, however, I lack the skill and/or motivation to delve into > trying to code something like that personally. And from my time at > PmWiki, I've grown to appreciate the power of markup over wysiwyg--at > least in terms of site development. > > I have looked at the wikiwyg project (www.wikiwyg.net) and think it > could be ported over easily enough. I tried once before, but either > because of my skill limitations, or bugs in their system, I never > could quite get it to work. That was some time ago. It may be working > better today. It gives a similar wow effect. > > Concrete also seems to have several built in application systems like > file management, scrapbook, and the like. We could try adding all that > into BoltWire, I guess, if we could find good open source projects out > there and find ways to do the interface, but I don't sense that is the > direction I want to go. Not just bloat--but more a problem of > complexity and lack of focus. I'd like to keep BoltWire small and > focused on what it does best. And do it well. > > So please help us out and filter any ideas you get from this CMS to > actionable projects we can look at incorporating into BoltWire. In > line with our philosophy and direction, of course. It would be great > to hit gold again. As I think we did with the new skin. :) > > Cheers, > Dan > > > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Markus <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Our last philosophical and inspirational talk about what is good or > > bad about BoltWire ended among other things in a light and beautiful > > new theme. Good things should be repeated. Here is round two. > > > During the last few days I more or less stumbled upon a CMS. Besides > > BoltWire it was actually the only CMS I ever looked at which did not > > baffle my brain. It's name is concrete5 (http://www.concrete5.org/). > > > There are so many things notably well done that I cannot list any > > significant number of them. In a nutshell it is three things: easy, > > innovative and wow. > > > On the cost side is a rather big download (or upload). And probably > > other things which did not affect me. > > > I can only recommend to install a copy or to create a free personal > > demo (https://www.getconcrete5.com/index.php/tour/demo/) and check it > > out (editing, administration, navigation bar setup, RSS, blog, > > blocks...). Whether or not there are features that should be > > integrated into BoltWire, it may change the way you think about CMS's > > and about creating web sites – for me it did. > > > Hope you have some fun! > > > Markus > > > Disclaimer: I am in no way connected to concrete5 or its creators. And > > well, it's an open source project. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BoltWire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
