Hi Russ, We've been using Farcry for yonks now. And we love it.
We've used it on the UKCFUG website (http://www.ukcfug.org/), MX Europe website (just about to go through a redesign - http://www.mxeurope.org/), a Flash website (http://www.franciscocentofanti.com/) (we used Farcry for the content management with a custom admin) and recently Heat Is Online website (not live yet but you can view here: http://new.heatisonline.org/). I'm sorry to hear of your bad experiences but I will try and help answer your questions... > 1. Going by the documentation, it looks like you can only run > a single copy > of farcry on your server as you have to install a central Incorrect. You can run multiple Farcry applications on the same server. You do have one Farcry core and fourq directories, but then you have Farcry application instances. The app.cfm in the root is what you use for registering your Farcry applications. The virtual directory /farcry for the admin actually picks up your application settings correctly depending on the website you are on. Clever! :) > 2. There appears to be no ability to design the site layout. > The demo site > has the farcry header which doesn't appear to be possible to > edit or remove, > it appears to be hard coded. Thus can't change the logo etc. Nope. As you can see from the above sites you can change the layout however you want. Also, check the other examples on http://farcry.daemon.com.au for other Farcry based websites. > 3. Navigation items are hard coded to the menus, so you > cannot create your > own custom menus as farcry just shoves this in by default. > What if I want to > add a container and content that is not shown on the > navigation menu but > which I can link to internally. You can do this. This is a matter of setting it up in the admin. > 4. dynamic Content objects. I cannot see anywhere to change these, you > appear to be stuck with the NEWS, EVENTS, FACTS that are > there by default. Kola has specified some links which should help. All the sites above use custom content types. > 5. Unable to add multiple content items to a page, if I add > more than 1 HTML > page to my HOME nav, only 1 of them displays. What if I want > to split the > page into several content items/columns. You need to use containers with rules. That's what we do on UKCFUG website and HIOL. > 6. I really couldn't say that it's designed with non > technical people in > mind, the admin is clunky, not particularly user friendly, > and the wording > used everywhere is pretty ambiguous and non descriptive. It > really is trial > and error trying to work out what does what, and any client > would require > serious training to use it, especially if they are really > technophobes. > Although the explorer tree, context menus and other DHTML > effects are neat. Agreed. The admin is a little scary, but you can create your own custom admin which is what we do on UKCFUG and HIOL. Then you can use the security to hide everything except your custom admin. > Basically it seems that if you want to be able to do anything > more than a > really basic geocities style "build your website" tool, you > would have to > add custom code. Not necessarily true. You can build quite complex websites out of the box, but as is always the case, if you want something to do that bit more, you more than likely will have to write some code. If you need any help with anything please email me off list. Cheers Niklas -- These lists are syncronised with the CFDeveloper forum at http://forum.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ CFDeveloper Sponsors and contributors:- *Hosting and support provided by CFMXhosting.co.uk* :: *ActivePDF provided by activepdf.com* *Forums provided by fusetalk.com* :: *ProWorkFlow provided by proworkflow.com* *Tutorials provided by helmguru.com* :: *Lists hosted by gradwell.com* To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
