| Re: Starting a Content/News Module Development Team |
| by irmtfan on 2012/9/23 5:11:39 IMO content means everything contain information like static and dynamic pages, pictures, files and ... so a content module should handle all of them. Now publisher can handle dynamic and static pages and pictures perfectly. Also publisher can manage files but need a separate table to be used as a download module. Quote:
I still dont understand why you think new webmasters have problem with admin functionality in the user side of module. It seems you think users (new webmasters, moderators, ...) should be in the admin theme area for doing admin functionality otherwise they will be confused. that is totally wrong based of my experiences working with almost 100 people as admin/forum moderators in my big big website in 11 years. we must have administration links in the user side for those (eg: moderators) who dont have module admin access. we have this in news module (submit news, edit submitted news by submitter, ...). in newbb many many of admin functionality are in the user side for moderators and even webmasters. I cannot see any issue with that. a webmaster friendly module should have proper readme, wise translation ( it is a pity that many of module english translations are weird, confusing and even untrue) and most importantly error logs (xoopslogger and redirect headers) for each and every malfunctioning. in that way nobody have issue with that module. |
| Re: Starting a Content/News Module Development Team |
| by panwac on 2012/9/22 22:59:17 Quote:
Maybe yes, maybe not. 1. I agree, that for simple web sites this is the best way. Content module for creating a structure of static information or for almanach, news for dynamic content. 2. In large web pages with complicated structure I feel that a large content module with a possibility to use it both for static content and news would be better for me. Why? a) because then I will have a possibility to define, which categories/topics are sorted like static content, and which are a news. b) there will be a possibility to create a structure of main topics (eg. sport activities) with main info (definition, current national management of this discipline, info about registration etc.) and dynamic info (news)- in one place I have possibility to find anythig about eg. equestrian. Each of main topics and sub-topics could have an option to decide, what is it's status (news, content, single pages without of showing a topic in menu), any topic/category should have an option to show it in menu or not, what is a sort order ect. That is becouse people (me to) have a different methods od finding an information. First group is checking only a news on main page (in FaceBook age it's very popular0, the second one is looking on the main page of web service and on the news from their best category (then they are trying to read all news from the category, but wants to have a possibility to find quickly related articles/pages in static content - eg. in local menu), the last group is trying to know sth. about a... sth being in web service, then they should have all content available in a 3 clicks. I remember, in Mambo or Joomla (it was a time ago) I saw a content module with that options. On a main page of web site there was only an articles from news categories, in special blocks articles from any defined categories, and in any parts of web serwice other articles from different categories. For any category there was a possibility to define, it would be visible in some kind of menu or not. Generally, it will be much more easier to organize a very complicated structure of content by the multidomain, but... strong content module is an option too. Sorry for my bad english - I'm after 14 hours at work so I haven't a power to find any mistakes and bugs. |
| Re: Starting a Content/News Module Development Team |
| by playsome on 2012/9/20 21:11:48 Mamba has emailed me his version of article (phppp module) using 2.5 gui, I have still to test it, but in my oppinion basing any new news module on article can only be a positiive thing. having read the posts above I will agree that the switching from admin to user side when doing category/article management is confusing and should be confined to admin side, article module also lets you post articles via user side which is good and should be retained, for example I have inexperiences staff who can post articles so not letting them near admin side is a good thing. I think also that any work on this module should be clearly defined as a news or blog module and not a content module, when I think content, I think static content like creating pages that are not going to change very often, news or blog module should be seperate from a content module. A news module should solely be for articles, content module should be a seperate entiity dealing with more static pages. |
| Re: Starting a Content/News Module Development Team |
| by AngeloRocha on 2012/9/18 23:11:05 Any news on the development of the module? |
| Re: Starting a Content/News Module Development Team |
| by Mamba on 2012/8/1 1:51:08 Quote: Anyway, i like to repeat that core content module should be full-featured and could manage all kind of contents like dynamic and static pages, pictures (gallery), files (download). even it can be a real time player for flv and mp4 files (Voltan said fmcontent can do it) I was hoping that the "news" module he forked from fmContent would do it, but I don't see much development lately. I hope, Voltan will be back, and as first, he will make it "clonable" similar to how Publisher does it. Then all of us can focus on this module and work together on improving it. |
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