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  1. Ivan Gretsky
    That is a best motivation for self-improvement ) I made links to most basic tutorials in the other topic you made.
  2. Ivan Gretsky
    #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?
  4. Ivan Gretsky
    Wow! PM on PW? That sounds really interesting. Could you tell a bit more about it? Maybe in another topic...
  5. Ivan Gretsky
    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 ))
  6. Ivan Gretsky
    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 .
  7. Ivan Gretsky
    @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.
  8. Ivan Gretsky
    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.
  9. Ivan Gretsky
    @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.
  12. Ivan Gretsky
    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.
  13. Ivan Gretsky
    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.
  14. Ivan Gretsky
    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.
  15. Ivan Gretsky
    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.
  16. Ivan Gretsky
    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 ))
  17. Ivan Gretsky
    Mаrcus! I see a lot of topics you create related to the profile recently. But github repo does not seem to be upgraded. Is there any way to watch the progress of development and/or help testing it?
  18. Ivan Gretsky
    I wish we could choose Inputfield types on a per template basis and all the other advanced options. This could reduce the number of fields needed drastically. Not sure it is possible though or if it would slow down the system.
  19. Ivan Gretsky
    Too bad no Cyrillic letters .
  20. Ivan Gretsky
    It is great! I want to propose an enhancement though. Do not know if it could be easily done, because I did not try Hanna codes yet (but definately will do in the future). Those tags look really scary for the user. It would be great to be able to name those codes, so they will show without the square brackets in the list. But this is probably unwise to do in this modulу, but rather in the Hanna code module itself. Anyway, this is surely usefull as it is. Thanks, Teppo!
  21. Ivan Gretsky
    There are a few videos by Soma dedicated to plugins. But I also try to notice a bit of a master's backend organisation while he is clicking through the admin. Here is the link.
  22. Ivan Gretsky
    There is Pootle in case we decide to have our own solution for that. But Transifex seems to be popular. Some Joomla projects were on Transifex. I would sertanly join the Russian translation group whichever way gets chosen.
  23. Ivan Gretsky
    The theme could be more abstract and consist of field renderers and css to style them. So you Install a theme which provide markup renderers for all field types (maybe a few for each). In the backend you choose which renderer to use for each field. You could choose not to render a field. All renderered fields could go in the main content area stacked or even use some kind of a sub-template to get more custom output. This is how Seblod for Joomla works. Maybe some kind of special profile could be developed which would be themable in an easy and consistent way. But in the end, all this will turn into something less universal than PW without it.
  24. Ivan Gretsky
    You still could go the frontend way and make use of Form Builder to implement cource publishing feature and maybe profile upgrades as well. If you want to go the backend way follow kongondo's googling advice in this topic or +1 on the tutorial request in there .
  25. Ivan Gretsky
    I am sure that it is not a simple task to produce a tutorial like that. Maybe the screencast of a backend system of a complex site would be an easier starting point. Sometimes it is nice to actually see something done (not just know it can be) and then do it yourself.
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