[Typo3-dev] Deactivating Backend Modules

[Martin Poelstra]

Hi all,

How about giving Front-end-editing another shot? I developed a site for a 
primary school, where the teachers don't even have access to the backend: 
they only work with front-end editing (which I extended a little).
The advantage of Front-end editing is the 'familiarity' with the site's 
look&feel (maybe the backend-editor can also make use of the Stylesheets 
that are already defined for the (Frontend) site?) and the easy navigation 
through the site. It's more the WYSIWYG-way.
The disadvantage is ofcourse that the functionality of the carefully-crafted 
backend-modules can't easily be rivalled by the more limited ways of editing 
presentable in the frontend.
Maybe some sort of popup-window, or maybe even displaying the whole site in 
a frame might be an option? In this popup (or frame) one could present 
buttons like: "Create new page" or "Edit pageheader" etc...
Just some quick ideas, maybe someone gets better ideas by reading these?

Grtz,
Martin


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kasper Skårhøj" <kasper2005 at typo3.com>
To: "List for Core-/Extension development" <typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Typo3-dev] Deactivating Backend Modules


>
>> A friend of mine who studies information technologies took a first
>> look at Typo3 and at the first moment he was overwhelmed by the amount
>> of buttons and icons which get presented to one when entering the BE.
>> He found it to be bloated :(
>
> It is obvious that from a beginners point of view there are tons of things 
> that is not needed.
> It is also obvious that from an experts view they are all welcome and the 
> reason why you will love TYPO3 eventually.
>
> The idea of the scaled down backend simply is to slide the beginner into 
> the TYPO3 universe slowly. The development of such a concept should in my 
> opinion offer several levels which are converging towards the final 
> destination; The current full-featured backend which is not affected as 
> such.
>
> Notice: For this project we are focusing on the END USERS (content 
> editors, secretaries etc), NOT the developers who will still be frustrated 
> of the 7 billion ways to write "HELLO WORLD". Helping this group is also a 
> concern of me, but not in this project.
>
> - kasper
>
>
>
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