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    RT @teppokoivula: ProcessWire Weekly #17 is out: http://t.co/227UXMuDHQ #processwire #cms

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    I think this site makes a nice use of bootstrap framework. Looks good! In the contact section everything seems to be made with FormBuilder and with its default styles. I just wanted to ask is it not that easy to apply Bootstrap styles to forms or are the defaults just better? Planning to use FormBuilder for the 1st time and am interested in opinion from someone who has been there.
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    I have registered to Transifex and found Ryan's & Apeisa's ProcessWire project. As I can see, there is only some sample data there. Russian language has been requested but the request has not been accepted. @Ryan & @Apeisa: Could you please write about have you found transifex suitable to generate processwire-style translation files. Do you plan on using this service to maintain translations? If so, could you please import all the strings necessary or delegate this to someone from us, the community.
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    Saying "hi"

    Ivan Gretsky replied to Peter Knight's topic in Pub

    Damn, should've known they don't call kids those simple bird names nowadays even in Ireland)) Welcome to the forums mr. Knight! Your multiple wishes are hard to address in one little topic in the Pub section. Searching for and participating in appropriate topics would be more effective and usefull to all of us. For example, there is already a topic about two column admin theme. Going there and posting something would bring it up and possibly move the discussion further.
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    Just scale your browser down to about 800px and you'll see. The dropdown menu also gets somehow broken on this size.
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    The site is not so fast from where I and Google PageSpeed servers are. I think it is worth spending time to make it load a bit quicker. The sidebar overlaps main content in around 800px wide. Not sure if there are many devices with that screen width, but still... Looks really good. Exellent job, ChiefPundit!
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    That is right. This is announcements branch, not wishes. Wishes and roadmap are just around the corner. Maybe we could break this topic apart for versions for easier navigation? "ProcessWire Dev Branch 2.5" and very soon "ProcessWire Dev Branch 2.6" and so on?
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    Thanks, Pete! That is a good explanation of what I meant under "workflow" (and the video shows really good, how it could be implemented). Surelly drafts only won't do the whole workflow job, but they could start it. Granular per field/tab permissions are another step. And just wanted to add that this feature is not only needed for larger sites, but is really usefull for all of them if you have more than one person working in the team. We have SEO person doing metatags, we have content manager posting content and project manager checking on them and aproving stuff. All 3 of them sometimes do not even know each other. Workflows can help a lot building communication. I can see drafts only helping in that direction. @-aj- We are not talking here bout a full-functional workflow module yet, but rather about necessary buildind blocks for it, which probably should be in the core.
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    I think SiNNuT is right and it is all about workflow in the end. This is something really needed by an enterpise CMS.
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    That is a best motivation for self-improvement ) I made links to most basic tutorials in the other topic you made.
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    #2 is correct. You do have to create modules (additional functionality) yourself. But you do not do it from ground up. ProcessWire provides you with capability to create custom content types, which consist of fields. Those fields are accessible via API. Those two features combined make possible the creation of functionalities usually provided by third-party modules elsewhere with a couple lines of code in the template file on the fly. You could build modules with admin interface, but it is not necessary in most cases. If you never coded a line in PHP it may seem hard (though it is not), but if you have not, MODx is probably not a right choice for you anyway. Just give it a try, go through a tutorial or two and then make a decision. If you do not want to code at all, go for something like Wordpress or Joomla or any of the other million CMS' out there.
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    In the roadmap I can see all the cool features are sponsored by someone. I just guess we could crowd-sponsor our own desires )) If it was possible to estimate, how much will it take to complete those "draft and live versions of any page" functionality, we could try to collect the money and get the common good. Just recently I took part in such an endevour related to Joomla. I can't say I got too much money to spend, but I'll surely find 5 to 10 bucks at least . It would be cool to see stated "this feature is sponsored by community". To not break Ryan's open source spirit down we could decide to sponsor definite amount of new functions per semester or so. We could also make some kind of voting on that, so we really take part in deciding, in which direction should this software develop. What do you think?
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    Wow! PM on PW? That sounds really interesting. Could you tell a bit more about it? Maybe in another topic...
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    I could suggest using this or this module to send mail via SMTP instead. They are very easy to use and extend WireMail class which is future-proof as it will be used in PW 2.5 core. They work only in dev version though. The links are the same as in Martijn's post, don't bother to compare ))
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    I got all inspired yesterday and got to the source, which is quite well documented and is probably an easy reading for those capable of that (not me yet). Could not find any options which could be configured to exclude certain field from being rendered as others. I guess you have to hook to InputfieldWrapper ___render() method and do some conditional formatting there. But it is only this far I could get .
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    @adrian: You are right! I do not know why there is always a desire to compare to Wordpress. Drupal and Typo3 may be more appropriate targets . But I guess that frienly tone of Ryan's and others like yourself will help moving PW forward much better than any critisizm. Anyway, the whole mess started with Vizz trying to promote another CMS and her services in this and some other topics. As far as I know this is the first case of a kind. We should decide how to take on this: should we: a) just ignore hoping everyone here will not go for WP, or b) try to stop this kind of practice somehow. @Vizz: I think it is not fair and will not bring you any respect to promote another CMS on this forum. I guess you should reconsider your marketing strategy. Stay and participate as you wish, but try to use the forum appropriately, please.
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    That is experience-based. Of course, I have seen that Soma's topic about making contact form from the PW API, so I know what this one is about. But how do you answer question like your's last? The only method working for me is reading and finding something smart guys wrote (hope it helps with your question). But how do they know? I guess? Ryan did not tell'em personally. So I want recomendations how to find answers myself. I think it will end up with something like "learn PHP and read the code", but maybe something more specific could be said here like "in PW you should find xxx files in wire/xxx and look for certain methods" or something.
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    @adrian It is nice we can ask such questions here and get the perfect answers. But how do you know the answers? Is it just experience or you quickly look up somewhere (docs, source code, etc.)? Could you explain that in detail? Teach me how to fish (but share some fish also ).
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    Ecotec.de

    Ivan Gretsky replied to totoff's topic in Showcase

    I guess serving mobile version to a considerable amount of clients is not a good idea. So using Unsemantic seems like is a good decision. Skelton is the other thing that could do the job, but it is a framework, not just grid system. And it is not fluid as Unsemantic is. I am sure you are aware of all this. Just for the record )) And no holywars, of course. Those should have ended in 11th century for good.
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    Ecotec.de

    Ivan Gretsky replied to totoff's topic in Showcase

    The point probably is to serve the same content to any browser and be sure it is possible to view the content right. Most of the grids simply break on IE8-. Unsemantic can work without media queries with adapt.js.
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    It would be great to automatically add a tab to all templates (like you can do with fields). This is handy for the SEO tab for example.
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    If you could only know what they are saying in the background ))) But maybe then this video would not make it's way here or would have been deleted.
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    XAMPP is the way to go. They got portable version too. If you do not need to install something not included like Python or Ruby you can live with no worries. There are answers for almost anything you can ask on the web.
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    1) I think you already got enough to start . You will get the rest only doing real things for money with time limits. 2) It depends on how much time do you have. But I am sure you cаn manage 2 per month just cutting your sleep time. 3) I think that you should't worry too much about the right hosting solution for those first small project, Just get anything shared that suits you with some partner program. I used to register individual shared hosting accounts for clients. 4) Why not try freelance sites? There are probably a couple of them in your area (do not know wherе you are). You could offer you services here in the appropriate branch of the forum. 5) I think best way to learn is to go out and try. Just decide what you have to offer and what do you want for it. And then they try to cut it down as much as they can, and you tell them that crafting a site is something bigger than making a word document. Good argument is how much time does it take to do it. 6) It really depends on where you are. I guess you can analize what your competition has to offer and/or try to estimate how long will it take you to do the job. 7) Just start and then you'll know that to do.
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    Recently the most popular answer in the forums is "Google it!" I can imagine community becoming less responsive if the moderators have to deal with more and more of those beginner level questions too often. So why not integrate google search into PW forum if it could help? I guess seing some more ads won't hurt nobody ))
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