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Thanks Luis, my brother was telling me about Cubby - does it have any differences with Dropbox? I suppose to use the LAN I'd have to bring my laptop to work with me, though I suppose I could do but sort of defeats the point. Owncloud looks interesting too, will have to check that out, thanks.

Hi guys, happy New Year one and all, hope PW continues to grow as impressively in 2013 as it certainly did in 2012. The last 12 months or so I've mainly been working from home and been very happy using my MacBook Pro, I'm really used to it and with my SSD upgrade it runs really smoothly. Whenever I've had to work domewhere else, I've happily taken it with me and I can carry on with my work. I've just moved into a new office though and have dug out my oldish (2008) IMac, cleaned it up a bit and booted it up and it's tempting to return to using a desktop computer after a long time away but I have a couple of issues: 1) I don't think this IMac model can receive an SSD upgrade (Crucial don't seem to think so) and it's not that it's slow, it just feels slow having used an SSD for the past 12 months so am wondering whether I should keep it in the office as a secondary computer, or invest in a new one or just be happy with it's current performance. 2) Also I'm wondering if any of you have a similar scenario where you try and keep two computers synced? The idea of using a desktop at work again is appealing but I want to be able to switch on at home if I need to work on something on my laptop. I currently use dropbox which works ok but it can often seem to take a really long time to upload stuff and I'm worried about coming to the end of the day and not being able to get synced. Was just interested in your thoughts on the issue, do you have a decent system or do you just stick with your laptop? Cheers! Apologies as this covers some of the same ground as Matthew's article here

I'd find it hard to part with my MacBook Pro. It's portable so I don't have to worry about not having my work with me wherever I go. I started having thoughts about an upgrade 12 months ago but I invested in an SSD and it made my computer run about 417,167 times faster . It's still on Core2duo but for webwork and day-to-day use it's superb. I have an older iMac and they are beautiful things but I'm always worried about keeping multiple systems on the same page.

I remember being really pleased when moving from EE to PW that I didn't have to recreate every field for each template

Was that a hasty decision I wonder based on the backlash they'd received from their followers?

Thanks Marc, there's some really useful advice. I especially like the bit about looking after yourself. I find it exceptionally hard to switch off the computer at night if I've not solved my latest problem! Good article too.

Hey Alessio thanks for your reply! It's interesting hearing your point of view. I always guessed that web is sort of the opposite to normal careers. You have to start out on your own, prove yourself and then maybe you can work for an agency. In other sectors, when you've learned the ropes you can go out on your own! I'd love to work for an agency making sites while continuing to improve but I've no idea at what level the jobs are available at...

I was interested if anyone who's been involved in the web design industry for a while had any pointers or tips to people like me who are at (or near) the beginning of their journey with web design. Or if not, just share how you got started, things you're happy you did or regret doing. I'd been in business for a number of years and was working for a hotel in France when we needed a new website. I got fed up hanging around waiting and I was sort of already the "go-to" tech guy (I think almost by default ) so I just thought I'd take a look at this website mumbo-jumbo. My brother has also been a web guy for years and he's always tried to get me involved but I just never got the bug but once I started I was hooked. I was always fascinated by starting with a blank page and I think my favourite moment was when I first saw my code turn into actual content on the web! That first site I made is still up there despite me having left the hotel a year or so ago and totally blagging my way through building it (Though they should probably change it!). i don't think it holds up too badly all things considered. It's only in the last month or so after more or less 15 months of constant "learning" that I feel like I've got a grip of enough stuff to build solid websites but I do often envy those guys who've been coding since they were at school! I'm also finding it quite tough to get new work. I feel like I want to be working for small/medium sized companies who need a web presence but aren't necessarily after a huge site, the problem with this area though is people seem reluctant to spend even 400/500 pounds on a site when they see the likes of Wix and others advertising for next to nothing. I guess it's a case of trying to convince them of the support and flexibility they'd be getting with me. Anyway, was interested on hearing from some of you guys your stories (if you want to share that is )

Hi Sunny, There's nothing built-in but it's all achievable and there are already some examples on the forums. Which I'll try and track down for you. You can start by extending the built-in "user" template. If you go to templates and then filters->show_system_templates. Like that you can add images and other things to the built in "user". You could equally add new members as new pages as well as setting them as a new user, this may be a better way to go long term. You will need to create front-end forms to allow people to register/edit/login. It is reasonably straight-forward to add new pages from the front-end in PW. You can find more info here: Custom logins: http://processwire.c...7-custom-login/ Creating new pages with API: http://processwire.c...-pages-via-api/ Also there's loads of people on here, including me who'd be happy to go through it all with you step-by-step but definitely check out Ryan's Form-Builder module too EDIT: Removed code as Soma's right, it's probably best to go step-by-step and end up with a lot neater code! As Pete says, there'll be people here to help you at each step but once you break it down, it's all very achievable and ten times easier the second time around.

Here's one article where we started discussing some stuff EE/PW http://processwire.c...e/page__hl__expressionengine Hmm, damn urls, just search for it!

I came here from EE and agree that EE users looking to go elsewhere won't find a better fit than PW. Bit of a shame for them though, I also found it a nice system to use and in the main real enjoyed using it. The cost for my small sites had begun to get prohibitive as well as the need to install modules to do simple things. I'm just delighted that PW is here to offer all of the advantages of EE without the drawbacks And it response to Claudio's final question, I think the answer is "talk about PW in their forums". Not sure whether or not that feels right though...

Luis, I am very impressed!

I think that other than the power user thing where they need to search and find an article amongst hundreds, the only real gripe I have with the admin is that it often feels like you need three clicks when one should/could do. I often find that when dealing with template and field setup I get dizzy going back and forward. One solution would be more buttons (not too many but as has been discussed "save&new" etc.) Also more use could be made of dropdown on hover. So that you could hover over Setup and Templates & Fields would dropdown, then drop down over templates etc. I feel that a couple more additions could make productivity a lot faster. I also don't believe that this would compromise too much on what Ryan was saying about over-complicating things. (I completely share his dislike for the ModX backend)

Hi Michael, welcome! As I see it there are no real disadvantages to reusing fields in your various templates. You can even label them differently for each template. Ie: body could be labelled "blog content" in one template and "copy" in another. It's definitely better practice to reuse fields wherever possible. If you go to your template settings and click on the fields there, you will get a contextual menu where you can modify settings of the field for that particular template. The only possible scenario I can think of for duplicating similar fields is when you need say two "images" fields in the same template. There may be others but your safe (and it's preferable) to reuse fields until you hit that particular scenario

Hey Claudio, thanks a lot for the feedback and positive comments. I'll take a look at the logo which was taken from the old site and see about maybe improving it. My biggest resolution is my MBP unfortunately so I often worry about what it looks like on smaller screens but can tend to forget about bigger ones!

I'm still a bit confused as to exactly how this works? Anyone got to try it out yet?

Thanks for the heads up, out of interest, can anyone explain how they got Piwik running alongside PW, do you need to edit the htacccess file?

You both get a like cos it's a Friday afternoon. Have to say I really like this site. It seems "effortless" (though I'm sure a great deal went into it). Really simple and clean and welcoming.

Thanks Reno, That's a really good suggestion, I did think about this myself and I guess I need to get back to jQuery 101! Thanks for taking a look, I appreciate it Going back to the conversation about Foundation. I've just been taking a closer look at it and I do like some things about it more than TB (most stuff is pretty much the same). I think the grid is a bit more flexible. As the nested elements add up to twelve and not their parent total then I believe you can do things like <div class="nine columns"> <div class="six columns></div> <div class="six columns></div> </div> You can also center columns on the page pretty easily and it's pretty easy to do grid images and the like with grid-block four-up

Hiya Matthew, I think that there are tons of good ones and I probably went with Bootstrap initially as it seemed to have all bases covered. I must say though, that I probably only use about 10% of what's in there so it's not that efficient. I also like Skeleton but with each of these frameworks, they do take some getting used to. The only real part that I find indispensable is the responsive framework! What is it you like about Foundation? Haven't really used it before.

Thanks Soma for this, it's something I may look at soon. I'm more worried about if I had a site with loads and loads of templates, it just seems a bit unintuitive to have to go through each template manually. Maybe it could be considered for the roadmap. Perhaps on the role page you could have a list of checkboxes so that you could tick next to each template for edit, create, children etc. There's a lot of wasted clicks currently.

Is there a way to quickly allow a new role, say "editor", to have edit access on all templates and then go and perhaps remove it on a case by case basis? This would be a lot quicker in certain situations than having to do the opposite and open each template separately, click manage access and tick the box. If not, perhaps in the API?

I really like this idea, I think CodeIgniter is a sort of benchmark for quality docs http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide, not only is it layered in a similar way to how you mention, but also the page is so easy to read

Cheers pal

Great work Joss. Was thinking of starting one today - may still do so and perhaps make a slightly different style or site. My only slightly negative comment is nothing to do with your work but more that I find the wiki style to be a bit grey and text a bit small and a bit crammed in (I'm probably just getting old )