Re: [xwiki-devs] XWiki as simle Web Site Platform

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:51 AM, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your EPEC Network ICT Team <webmaster(a)environmentalchange.net> wrote: thks ;) yes it is worth... I don't know who works on that now as I'm not in XWiki team but I think this might take some time also. Moreover, the question is: what is a good skin customization tool? (keeping current flexible features around velocity and giving a nice wysiwyg way of structuring your skin)... In a summary, in magnolia, as everything is stored in JCR, everything is a tree and then the skin is a tree. They mix this tree structure with the templating approach. So you build your skin from the top to the bottom: parts embedding other parts embedding other parts etc... And you can say: in this part, I can accept only this and this and this. Then they have a kind of MVC model to represent each part and the rendering part is managed with the templating engine FreeMarker (velocity like). So it is quite easy to change the skin structure. Finally what's nice with their tool is that when you are working on your site, you have a quick view of it and every content in it is enhanced by a small toolbox allowing to edit, move, delete it... with that, you can reorganize the page in a WYSIWYG way. I want this teaser to go before this one, I want to add a new paragraph just here, to change this header or footer here, to change the title etc... almost inline editing... not perfect but quite practical... Not the same approach as the wiki approach but with the xwiki wysiwyg editor, we go in this way. I really like the idea of changing the site from the site itself. (No I don't want to have dreamweaver, just some features of it ;););) ) And something I like in CMS: you have an authoring instance and a public instance of your site. You play in the authoring instance until you are happy and then you publish from the authoring instance into the public instance... Yes it is possible to compare and lots of people do it all the time and even fight against each other... "I'm for CMS"... "I'm for WIKI"... this is the WCM, the "war for content management"... everyone wants the business of the other one.. I prefer working on their convergence in the domains in which they can converge... Keep it ;) Don't be surprised when it seems down, this is a private server and I perform some experience sometimes...