Re: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications...

2006-10-27 Thread mac jordan
On 10/27/06, Rick Faircloth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Local database for the site-specific data and > master database for the data shared between sites? > > yes - including page structures, individual site configs, etc. It does mean we have to do the hosting too, but mostly our clients are lo

RE: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications...

2006-10-27 Thread Rick Faircloth
Local database for the site-specific data and master database for the data shared between sites? -Original Message- From: mac jordan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 11:22 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications... we've

RE: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications...

2006-10-27 Thread Rick Faircloth
Sounds very interesting...I'll have to consider this further! Thanks, Casey Rick -Original Message- From: Casey Dougall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 11:10 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications... Yeah Rick, that

RE: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications...

2006-10-27 Thread Rick Faircloth
AIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 10:42 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications... There are several CMS applications that use a similar approach. Red-Dot for example, publishes all your HTML files using CFFTP. One thing to consider. It makes th

Re: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications...

2006-10-27 Thread mac jordan
On 10/26/06, Rick Faircloth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > One, build complete sites as templates and sell the templates, > each as a complete site with separate database, etc. > > we've spent a lot (understatement) of time and effort rolling our own CMS, which allows the client to add their own

Re: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications...

2006-10-27 Thread Casey Dougall
Yeah Rick, that about does it. Everything for the most part is tied into their client id. When they edit their content they don't actually see it as it would live on the page but that is of course another route you could follow where you select the template you are going to use for a piece of con

RE: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications...

2006-10-27 Thread Mark A Kruger
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 9:37 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications... > I'm just joking around with ya on this one. I think you're the only > one outside of Government Agency's using something lower than 6.0 :-) No, actuall

RE: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications...

2006-10-27 Thread Rick Faircloth
iginal Message- From: Casey Dougall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 9:41 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications... On 10/26/06, Rick Faircloth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, Casey, and thanks for the feedback. > &g

Re: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications...

2006-10-27 Thread Casey Dougall
On 10/26/06, Rick Faircloth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, Casey, and thanks for the feedback. > > I'd like to know more about what you mean by this: > > " We flush the above things out to their individual portals as static > content. > Meaning cfftp much of the time, well events are an xml f

RE: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications...

2006-10-26 Thread Rick Faircloth
ECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:52 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications... I'm not in quite the same situation, I'm just lazy and hated building "almost the same" functionality time after time. What I did was completely retool al

RE: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications...

2006-10-26 Thread Rick Faircloth
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:34 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications... I work for a company that manufactures sunrooms and we have a network of dealers all over the country. I created a template for our niche market which consists primarily

RE: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications...

2006-10-26 Thread Rick Faircloth
ge... Rick -Original Message- From: Casey Dougall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:59 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications... Hi Rick, I would say it's hard being a private developer in todays age. If it wasn'

Re: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications...

2006-10-26 Thread Pete Ruckelshaus
I'm not in quite the same situation, I'm just lazy and hated building "almost the same" functionality time after time. What I did was completely retool all of my core code to make it much more modular. To do this, I branched my code into two distinct parts -- core application and site-specific co

RE: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications...

2006-10-26 Thread Terry Troxel
nstructing multi-user/multi-site applications... Ok.so I'm getting hammered as a custom designer/developer by sites such as Z57.com (a real estate service/site provider) because they can set up sites for their clients on-the-fly. I develop custom sites, one-at-a-time.cost is much greater,

Re: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications...

2006-10-26 Thread Casey Dougall
Hi Rick, I would say it's hard being a private developer in todays age. If it wasn't for additional services Mannix Marketing provides like SEO and of course link packages on our travel portals, I don't think Sara "the boss" would have had the same type of luck staying a float in this cookie cutte

RE: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications...

2006-10-26 Thread Rick Faircloth
company. Thanks for your thoughts and time! Rick -Original Message- From: Jon Clausen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:37 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications... Rick, I do, but I'm not sure it's what you

RE: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications...

2006-10-26 Thread Matt Quackenbush
ubject: Re: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications... Rick, I do, but I'm not sure it's what you want to hear - sorry. Before "retiring" and doing my own thing a couple of years ago, I spent the previous 13 years with a Fortune 100 company on the Operations end of the b

Re: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications...

2006-10-26 Thread Jon Clausen
From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 4:19 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications... > > Ok.so I'm getting hammered as a custom designer/developer by > sites such as Z57.com (a real estate service/s

RE: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications...

2006-10-26 Thread Rick Faircloth
Anybody got any advice or perspective on the situation below? Rick -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 4:19 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications... Ok.so I'm getting hammered as a c

Constructing multi-user/multi-site applications...

2006-10-26 Thread Rick Faircloth
Ok.so I'm getting hammered as a custom designer/developer by sites such as Z57.com (a real estate service/site provider) because they can set up sites for their clients on-the-fly. I develop custom sites, one-at-a-time.cost is much greater, time-to-live is longer, so some of my clients are startin