TYPO3 - Huge Dose of Reality - Getting to Know a CMS
June 6th, 2005
On a close inspection of TYPO3, I have been impressed by how few design constraints it imposes upon content. My initial assessment of this CMS as inflexible and overly complex was wrong. While it is complex, it offers a range of web development paths, some with greater complexity than others.
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1. Margret | June 11th, 2005 at 11:09 am
On a scale of 1 - 10 what’s your assessment as far as cost vs user friendly?
2. Harvey Ramer | June 11th, 2005 at 10:55 pm
Margaret, the TYPO3 CMS seems a bit on the difficult side for a do-it-yourself webmaster, but undoubtedly has a sophisticated enough set of features to handle very advanced web applications.
My cost analysis is as follows:
1. It would take considerable time (probably months) to become very proficient developing on this platform. Hence, I would hire a developer rather than going it alone.
2. If I chose to use this and do it myself, I would rely heavily on the TYPO3 community (which seems strong) and plan for the long haul.
If I chose option two, however, I would lean away from TYPO3 largely because of my questions regarding the flexibility of its templating system. So far, all I’ve seen used with TYPO3 is table-based web designs. Though I’m willing to be corrected here, it seems that designing for this CMS is not as flexible as the options provided by a simpler CMS such as Drupal. In fact, with recent developments at WordPress, you may be able to use the WordPress platform as a simple CMS, especially if what you do involves the publishing of articles suited for syndication.
3. Anoop | June 14th, 2005 at 2:23 pm
As someone who is working with Typo3 and a relative beginner (6 months) I have to point out that it is possible to do accessible, standards compliant websites, it’s all in the design.
4. Harvey Ramer | June 14th, 2005 at 4:08 pm
Thanks to Anoop, I did some digging and found one example of a CSS project using TYPO3, but it’s not clear how much customization was necessary and how much separation there is between the software and the content. Are portions of every page contained in tags that a template designer can’t alter? At any rate, here’s the link:
bedlamhotel.com/featured-proj.html
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