[TYPO3-english] is TYPO3 for me

Sat Nov 10 20:37:11 CET 2012

Hi,

you may also use http://themes.kay-strobach.de/ ;) as addition to TYPO3 ;)

Regards
Kay

Am 10.11.2012 17:00, schrieb Andreas Becker:
> 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
>>
>> --
>> The humble sages, by virtue of true knowledge, see with equal
>> vision a learned and gentle brāhmana, a cow, an elephant, a dog
>> and a dog-eater.
>>
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