Umbraco & CWS
Many thanks to Umbraco team
and Creative Website Starter authors. This
CMS itself is a great engine that I hope and start to use in new
and ongoing projects.
CWS solved to major thing (as was intended to by Warren Buckley,
I suppose):
- My fast introduction into Umbraco development.
- Providing framework for homepage.
As I explored CWS implementation I discovered all means it was
created by, thus understanding Umbraco. After this (and quite
astonished I was at the simplicity, yet a genius one) I
modified gallery module a little bit so that now it serves me as
portfolio with categorization support.
Also I translated all pieces. Well, this should better become
localization in near future, so that I also look into this part of
town.
And made some light corrections in design: removed flashed
titles and changed links colour to my favourite orange.
Oh, yeah, I disabled 'Email this to a friend' as that's not
popular in Russia (as I see this) and may lead to spam
issues.
And some other bits of changes were added...
Summarizing all the time taken onto this I can say... Around 3
hours including Umbraco study. And that's awesome: other CMS took
much more time just to understand their attitude often doubled by
crevices of architecture and many-many restrictions. Here I needed
20 minutes to come to the idea that programmer doesn't need to
write or generate any SQL at all! I almost stumbled here. XSLT,
small master pages and little bits of code that can be left without
compilation even - and that is all needed!
