Hi Mohit, I'd be willing to contribute an article during the next weeks.
Cheers, Casper On 21/02/2008, at 18:03, Mohit Sindhwani wrote: > Maarten Oelering wrote: >> Hi Sean, >> >> Thanks for your extensive reply. I am happy to hear that Radiant is >> very active. >> >> However others might get the same impression as me, which probably >> would not be the case if radiantcms.org is updated more frequently. >> But, as you say, the quality of the code is what counts, and not the >> packaging. >> >> The fact that Radiant, like any other CMS, may not do eveything out- >> of-the-box is not a problem. That's one of the main reasons why I >> prefer a Rails based CMS, since it makes developing extensions a lot >> easier. >> >> What made me enthousiastic in the review I mentioned is that Radiant >> is part of list of well-known CMS's and considered as an interesting >> new contenter which looks very promising. As a ruby developer, the >> only lacking feature I have a problem with is the part about the >> documentation. I will check out the Styled Blog template as you >> suggested. This might help me creating the layouts and structure of >> the site. However my less technical colleagues must also be able to >> edit content or add pages to the site. If the rather conceptual >> documentation is extended with more concrete examples, it might help >> a lot. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Maarten >> > > Hi Maarten, > > Here's the thing - I had proposed a plan for documentation for Radiant > on the documents mailing list but have had absolutely no time to > contribute to it. However, Radiant is very much alive and a lot is > going on. > > One of the things that gives Radiant a bad name (and in many places a > good name) is the fact that it doesn't have everything and the kitchen > sink thrown in. It's got just enough to do a solid job of content > management! It doesn't come with a dozen styles, templates, etc. that > force you to create a certain kind of content/ site. That does mean, > however, that you need to design your own layout. > > OK, so here's what I'm willing to offer. I wrote a "Hello World" > guide > for Radiant that talks you through the idea of creating a non-blog > style > Radiant setup (i.e., starting with an 'empty' project). It's online > here: http://notepad.onghu.com/2007/5/26/hello-world-using-radiant-cms > There's also another article also at the same blog: > http://notepad.onghu.com/radiant > > That said, there are a number of jewels of wisdom on this list and > some > in the wiki. Unfortunately, the wiki is a bit slow and that's quite a > problem. I still want to get around to the idea of the > documentation I > had proposed, but I can't say much till I get more time. Anyway, the > idea is here if anyone else is interested. > - > http://lists.radiantcms.org/pipermail/radiant-docs/2007-December/000034.html > > Can I ask a question? How many people here are willing to write a > one-off *one* article about using some facet of Radiant in a time > period of the next 3 weeks? Shall we aim for that? I'll write one, > I'll coordinate it if there are at least 10 people willing. Then, we > can put them all out. If there are about 15 - 20 people, it would be > quite a sudden push! What do you guys thing? > > Cheers, > Mohit. > 2/22/2008 | 1:03 AM. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Radiant mailing list > Post: Radiant@lists.radiantcms.org > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@lists.radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
