[TYPO3-english] is TYPO3 for me

Sat Nov 10 17:00:54 CET 2012

Hi Gour

It is all there what you need

go to http://webempoweredchurch.org

Download i.e. one of their packages
http://webempoweredchurch.org/services/download-packages/

Check the videos and Tutorials on how to do this - it is easy and simply
just working

After 15 Minutes you will have a complete site with lots of extensions
already ready to use installed and you can check the features out.
It comes with the Framework for TemplaVoila which will get a great update
in the next weeks and than you will have also html5 mobile stuff and more
in.

Best of all is the tutorials, how to and Classes section here:

http://webempoweredchurch.org/support/help/basics/

work through the classes
http://webempoweredchurch.org/support/classes/

Nowhere else in the internet you will find such a good tutorial sectionlike
here which is also very easy to understand and it is all TYPO3.

There forum is a great help too beside the mailinglist which you are
already using.

Have fun with TYPO3 It is the best you can get in the Net :-)

Inspire to share your experiences with TYPO3

Andi

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Gour <gour at atmarama.net> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> in short: I'm looking for a stable & mature CMS with large-enough
> community on which I can settle for longer-term offering everything for
> my web needs (smaller-medium sites) having enough
> extensions/add-ons/plugins enabling me to use them as 'lego-bricks' and
> integrate everything together without the need to go too deep under the
> hood, so wondering is TYPO3 is right choice for me?
>
> long: In the past I did use CMS Made Simple and did few sites with it,
> but left due to too arrogant devs not caring much for their users.
> Afterwards tried Joomla, but quickly uninstalled it.
>
> When MODx Revo appeared, I did try it and played with it for some time
> but left seeing it was not clear where is was going.
>
> Then tried tinkering with Django, mostly with Django-CMS, but the
> project had problems with compatibilities between dependencies for
> different 'reusable apps'.
>
> Then used SilverStripe (2.4.x), but it felt too rudimentary and
> 'discovered' Concrete5 which is at the moment used for the non-profit
> organization I'm creating content for.
>
> For my private site i use(d) WP which is simple blog-only, but we want
> to expand it into bigger site documenting our upcoming open-source
> multi-platform desktop project.
>
> Considering that we'd do our desktop project in Python and in order to
> not 'change gears' too often, I did evaluate web2py which we like as
> the framework, but there is not the single mature CMS written in it -
> there are 2 altogether which are mostly one-man-show without any
> community around it.
>
> That led us back to Django where we find: Django-CMS, Mezzanine and
> FeinCMS, but all of them are not so big projects in terms of number of
> devs & community and lack all the 'bricks' we'd need to migrate our
> sites to them which means learning a framework.
>
> Finally, we have to put asap web site for our small company site and
> invested some $s in buying add-ons for Concrete5, but we really do not
> like their business model - plenty of add-ons which are mostly sold.
>
> Moreover, docs for their framework is a need of some love and the core
> team is also no too big.
>
> Finally, somehow, I have 'discovered' TYPO3 and, of course, could read
> many 'hate' stories on the Net (there is even anti-TYPO3 list) where
> several users complain how TYPO3 is complex, unintuitive, not many
> usable extensions etc.
>
> I did install it on my server, and I must say that it looks quite good.
>
> I mentioned my (present) web needs above, but in terms of functionality
> it boils down to:
>
> a) decent blog engine with comments, support for Disqus, possibly
> pingback/trackback which would be use on all the three sites (private,
> non-profit, company)
>
> b) extensions for google-maps front-end, Piwik support...
>
> c) extension to handle public download area counting number of downloads
> for media files (audio, video)
>
> d) extension for document management to provide private downloadable
> area for our (registered) clients, so that each client can access
> his/her private support docs/multimedia-files etc. (to be used on
> company site)
>
> e) simple shop so that customers can offer our 'products' which are
> actually just homeopathy & counselling services - nothing complicated
> since there are not thousands products to be handled.
>
> Moreover, in the beginning, we need simple checkout to provide info how
> customers can pay for their orders via Internet banking etc., but later
> we'd like to offer accepting of credit cards payment, so having nice
> infrastructure in the typo3-based shop to easily write custom payment
> module for the form-api gateway would be great.
>
> In the future, we may need to add some calendaring extension so that
> customers can 'book' free time for their appointment when ordering some
> service.
>
> f) support for Croatian language so that we do not need to translate
> front-end from the scratch.
>
> That's pretty much all what we need at the moment and wonder how TYPO 3 can
> fulfill those requirements?
>
> While playing with 4.7.6 introduction package I noticed it's a bit
> sluggish - the PHP memory limit is set to 256MB, although my shared
> (webfaction-like) account can use maximum 500MB, so I'm interested if I
> could use TYPO3 in such environment to serve the above
> low-traffic site(s)?
>
> Based on what I read and heard, it seems that one can accomplish a lot
> just by using Typoscript without the need to go low-level and write
> extension in PHP? Is it true?
>
> I do not mind learning a bit of PHP, but I simply do not find myself as
> Pro PHP developer writing complex extensions.
>
> How is TYPO3 support for non-Apache servers?
>
> Is it possible to rewrite its mod-rewrite rules to suit
> Cherokee/Lighttpd/Nginx which could provide better performance than
> Apache?
>
> Any caching tip I do miss to optimize my 'introduction' site's
> experience?
>
> Many extensions listed in the registry seems outdated/old and wonder
> what is the backward compatibility for extension in general?
>
> Will the present extension continue to work in the upcoming TYPO3-6
> which I could not install today...but that's for another message.
>
> Considering the work on Neos and that learning TYPO3 is significant
> investment of time for the future, will the knowledge  about TYPO3-4 &
> TYPO3-6 be useful for Neos, at least, in the scope of Typoscript?
>
> Excuse me for a long post, but it's not a simple decision and I must
> say that based on what we experienced so far, TYPO3 is really in
> another CMS league, from the application itself, to the organization,
> size etc.
>
> Any advice is welcome.
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Gour
>
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