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    I am more familiar with Bootstrap than Foundation - but I did enjoy playing with the SASS on foundation. It does have some advantages. If you have a complicated menu structure, Foundation's menu solution is nicer than Bootstrap, and you can play around with the media breaks in a different way (they calculate slightly differently) However, Bootstrap feels a little less clunky. To be honest, I think with both of these you need to decide what you are actually going to do and then only build the bits your really, really need. If that means you are only using the grid system, then maybe they are not the best. But if you like all their components and want to use those, then they start coming into their own. To be honest, good designers have built great sites with most of the solutions out there, so you can probably be too picky!
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    Sorry, haven't got a multi site set up to test with. On the field input tab where you are using TinyMCE, the spell check is referenced with a path (third party plugins) - does it work if you change that path?
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    Thanks Sanyaissues - that is new to me.
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    Ta! I am about to rebuild that site actually. I haven't had any speed issues with either of the frameworks and I tend to use quite a few of their components. Having said that, I might also look at some of the grid only responsive frameworks that are around like Pure as this site might use a few independent plugins
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    I have just been asked by a radio celeb to design them a site to accompany their forthcoming autobiography (which is destined to be very controversial and upset a lot of people) (Note - I have been asked not because I am the first stop for celebs, which I aint, but we used to work together many many years ago as juniors in the business!) So, the site will need to be a) quite flashy, b) simple to understand (cough) and c) probably robust. I also might have to move it in a hurry if it is very popular (cant tell with celebs - some will get thousands of hits, many will get five, on a good day) However, that is not the issue, I could make it with Bootstrap 3 or I could make it with Foundation 5 ... but which? If I was brave i would try Edge Reflow, but I haven't even opened that yet!
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    Hi icreation Actually, this should not be a problem at all. The PW resizing actually creates a new image, it does not just change it with CSS, so you do not end up with any css conflicts. However, with Bootstrap 3, for the image to be responsive you need to add the class img-responsive to the img tag - unlike Bootstrap 2, it is not responsive by default. If you are just allowing them to upload an image, then you can simply add this to the image output on the template. If, you are allowing them to add an image via one of the RTEs then you can still add this using a bit of jquery to add the class.
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    One other small thing is that Ametys is a Java application. Having worked within two other java applications and been involved in their communities, they are a very tight knit and mutually supportive bunch. The Java communities are like a hidden part of the developer community, sometimes - or it can feel like that. When I started looking at Liferay, it was like I had found an entire new world. Here were hard working developers who said things like "yes, heard of Wordpress - never used it though so I haven't the foggiest" or "Joomla - is that still around?" And there tends to be a general distrust of anything PHP which many see as a security risk waiting to pounce. So, if Ametys got a lot of support from the java community, it would not necessarily be very obvious. Anyway .... probably enough of this subject now! There is the potential in the next couple of months of a few more people turning up to these forums looking for help and advice, so adding to any documentation might be more productive than moaning about a competition we just won! There, I had to say that - as an old fart of a bear, I kind of saw it as a duty! (or perhaps just a bad habit) Joss
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    Did you? I lived in Cambridge for a few years, though I didn't stray much into Norfolk - strange place that .........
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    Okay, About time I put the lyrics down - you have to appreciate that I ad-libbed the entire thing at the time, playing the piano at the same time. Now are you wired? Soma's got the code, gonna make it right He's gonna program all damn night Diogo's got php on his mind Got stuck in a loop, he's in a bit of a bind Pete keeps panicking! His forum just broke He hopes all the others Just think its a joke They're all at Processwire They're living the Processwire Dream I've got it wired Processwire... Ryan is watching He knows that its true ProcessWire can kill the blues Its so real, it feels good! Processwire underneath the hood...
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    You have just read the entire thread in order? I am impressed!!!
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    Oh Good! I can now put my twitter account back to sleep - I very rarely use it! I notice that the next competition has already started and Ametys CMS has hit the ground running with 620 votes. Good luck to them!
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    Oh good! YAWN
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    Is PW for me?

    Joss replied to MLCB's topic in Getting Started

    Well, to start with I suggest you go play with one of the tutorials. http://wiki.processwire.com/index.php/Basic_Website_Tutorial This is a pretty thorough one which demonstrates some very basic use of php and so on - it walks you through it very simply, so you wont get lost. The chances are, if you have some basic understanding of how this works together, then you will find you learn faster than you think. The advantages are that even though you have to actually get your hands dirty rather than use plug-and-play addons, the resulting site is much leaner, faster, more efficient and far more maintainable - after all, you will know every nook and cranny of it! So, play with that tutorial, maybe try the news one after which is also on the wiki site, and see how you get on. Good luck!
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    Ah, well as it happens, it was them that wanted it changed from 0.9 to 0.8 I meant to mention that for their news, or "notices" as they call it, they decide manually what gets shown on the front page (only will show 4) and what gets featured in the carousel on the noticeboard. The rest of the noticeboard page is all those articles that are NOT featured, though they may be on the front page. This is just because they have some issues which don't seem to want to go away, so they want to keep those articles up the top all the time. It is not heavily managed, but just enough to give them a little bit of versatility without swamping them with option. This is actually one of the more important points about something like ProcessWire - the ability to develop the settings the client needs without lumbering them with a huge amount of default options that they will never use and make their UI look messy.
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    Okay, so suddenly the number of votes shot up - their's rather more than ours .....
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    Retweet it!
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    And by fishing, I mean the sort with a line, hook and dinner attached to the end. http://harlestonanglingclub.co.uk/ I haven't done any of the content this time - it is all the clients work directly onto the site, including any images. It is mostly a pretty straightforward website with a few bits and pieces. They can change the main header image as well as the large site background image. They can manage the slideshow of course. There is a link system with categories that automatically generates a list of places that also sell tickets. Repeater fields are used for things like the ticket prices tables. The fixture list is a bit of fun and thanks to various people here for helping with that a few months ago. It automatically sorts into Years, then months, then days. Graphically, all I did was create their main header banner and a map on the contact page. Since the "management" have a pretty dry way of writing, my main concern was to give the site a lot of air and openness to try and take away from that a little. The site was built with Bootstrap 3 in about two days or so. It has taken nearly three months to get the content sorted out I had one amusing issue. When I uploaded to their host (having persuaded them to upgrade from the Zeus server they were still on), I discovered that the page name for the admin I had chosen, happened to be one of a pile of aliases the hosts use for their control panel. So I could not login. Oops. Thankfully, changing the page name in the database solved the problem.
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    I am trying to get the message out there on Twitter, but my phone keeps ringing with clients wanting things. https://twitter.com/Joss_Sanglier
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    Possible helpful trick - try and find people on Twitter that are into CMS and might like to help us along by voting and retweeting. For instance, CMSCritic very helpfully retweeted one of my tweets. What a nice chap! You guys probably know more people than I do.
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    When you look through the members list for this forum, there are a lot of people who have never posted. That does not mean they are not using PW, of course, but it might mean they rarely come into the forum and therefore do not know the competition is going on.
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    The only onions I use go into my cooking! http://www.foodloversdiary.com (must update that site one day)
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    I notice a lot of their votes seem to happen at this time of day. I think they are based in France, so it is probably everyone getting home and logging in!
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    This is great stuff Martijn - I would be very interested to know how you have structured it out to allow for the micro sites. This is something that I think is a particular area that is good to develop in processwire. If you ever feel like writing out a techy case study.....
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    There are two ways First of all, each field has a description and these can be changed on a Template to template basis. Secondly, Soma has put together a very useful module that simply adds a help tab to templates if an associated help files is created. This would just be a file with notes for the template written out as html. Full instructions are with the module. http://modules.processwire.com/modules/template-notes/ I have used this a couple of times now and the clients really like it. Basically, I write the fuller instructions in the help file, including outside references if needed, like to their own company policy or the TinyMCE manual and also any notes about style or SEO considerations and so on. I then only use the description fields as very short reminders, if at all. The resulting forms are much cleaner and yet the client has lots of information at their disposal.
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    No need to fake - better to play it straight. And there is no evidence anyone else is faking or not. Just supposition, which is not exactly accurate ERP may just be waiting to do a last minute rush, of course!
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