[TYPO3] Agree or Disagree...

[Erik Svendsen]

Hello NComenduley at firstambank.com,

First, I'm probably not the best person man to answer, because I probably 
build not so complex websites.

If you contact, Dassault Systemes, http://www.3ds.com/ who probably has one 
of the more complex TYPO3 websites I suppose they can give some better answers.

Or as you are an American Bank, you could contact Michael Cannon in Cannonbose, 
http://www.cannonbose.com/ to get some input.

I give my full support to Dmitry's comments, and have nothing to append to 
it.

> Hoping this is the right forum, but I need some initial thoughts.
> We are doing a redesign working with a contractor.  Below is their
> rationale for changing *out* of Typo3.
> Agree or disagree or other comment?  (with regards to v4.1.5)
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Version 4.1.6 is the latest stable, and version 4.2.0 should be production 
stable in few weeks.

> [snip]
> However, the structure of Typo3 presents some incompatibilities when
> it
> comes to building the [snip] website an our research has concluded
> that
> Typo3 may not be the appropriate technology for this project. 
> There are
> major requirements missing, such as (a) the extension &
> personalization of
> Typo3?s admin capabilities to handle specific new object features and
> (b)
> the building of oriented objects relations working on database-driven
> generated templates. Typo3?s admin is not flexible to handle many
> tasks
> needed to for completion of this site as designed.
> We have tried to work on the limits of your existing CMS. Despite
> research
> and inquiries in Typo3?s library of extensions, we have yet to receive
> replies about specific technical requests that we submitted to Typo3
> support team. In addition, we have noticed all over the Internet that
> ?all? websites built within typo3 technology look and are presented
> and
> structured in a particular fashion (Option ?PAGES? / Edit static
> content/?). In other words, every example of website generated within
> Typo3 rely on predefined events that were well organized in some
> static
> templates basis. We feel Typo3 generates websites seems far from a
> complete web 2.0 concept.
> Furthermore, we can cite:
> ? Missing Adjustments in the Typo3 Core: complex HTML tables and
> complex
> forms that meet the accessibility guidelines cannot yet be displayed.
> In
> such cases the web developers/administrators should store the
> correspondingly prepared content statically as HTML content in Typo3.
> It
> can be assumed that standard conformity and accessibility will play a
> more
> important role in creating website in future.?
> Book reference: Typo3, Enterprise Content Management?s book (P.385)
> Finally, in order to build First American Bank?s website, we would
> have
> to:
> -Develop complex dynamic templates with multiple oriented
> objects-relational
> -Extend automatically specific features of  the backend Interface
> -Personalize the way coded pages should interact
> -Communicate in the frontend according to each users? actions.
> [snip]
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WBR,
Erik Svendsen
www.linnearad.no