It's interesting that this has come up from somebody else. We've been doing this kind of thing for a little while now, with varying degrees of success. The things that we've produced have needed varying amounts of work with habari, but for the most part, we've been able to keep / system intact. For an example of the most extreme modification, see airbrushhub.com. It's a full on user upload images + videos do-daddy.
In terms of the idea itself, i like the idea of have some pre-packaged configurations of habari that people could start from. In my experience, sites often come in 3 or so 'sizes': * 1 page info site (i don't think habari can do this better than html) * 3-5 page extended info site * 3-5 + blog * 3-5 + other dynamic info. So the 3-5 is kinda taken care of by 'pages' at the moment, but there maybe other bits in there to help site creators. I think one of the main areas we'll need to improve is the handling of media. The image tray is, well, nice, but imho way too complicated at the moment for a non-technical user to use. Maybe they aren't the target market for this feature? Anyway, building in some basic crop/ rotate/retouch as mikelietz suggests maybe a way forward with that one. Just my 2¢. Cheers! On Jun 10, 10:41 pm, Owen Winkler <[email protected]> wrote: > It's been a long time thought of mine that Habari could more > successfully gain popularity not as a general-purpose blogging tool, but > as a tool to implement web sites for specific market segments. > > Reading this article this morning reminded me of > this:http://greghoy.com/restauranteurs-are-smarter-than-this-arent-th > > It seems to me that if we were able to package kind of "canned" > solutions on top of Habari for implementing a working web site, we could > enter the market as a go-to tool in those industries. > > Here are a few of places where I think Habari could excel by providing > packaged site solutions: > > * Restaurants > * Real Estate > * Club/Organization > * Anything "brochure"-like > > It would be fantastic to offer Habari as an alternative, complete tool > to people who would otherwise throw up a single-page brochure site. > What additional features the site could offer as part of such a package > could be discussed. > > What functionality would we need to add to have the best ease of use for > people attempting to implement such a solution? How would it be > deployed? Would you select a specific distribution from the Habari home > page, or would you choose a package implementation from a menu during > the installer? How could this work? > > Owen -- 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/habari-dev
