Quick Talk
3 August 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
After testing a few scripts for displaying galleries, I chose Swiper. FrankenUi Carousel Slider and Slideshow elements are nice but they did not integrate well with Nuxt, my favourite framework, not in ten minutes anyway, styling was not great, same issue for TinySlider, all of them being touch enabled, which is important for me. And […]
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22 July 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
Asset management (mainly, in my case , images and PDF), is a big thing. In a review of KirbyCMS, I pointed out the importance of this feature . In my opinion, these days, after trying a few dozen content management systems with integrated asset management, I have to say that it could be much more […]
2 July 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
Hey, i'm trying to get rid of wordpress, not so easy !! Filament PHP is a good candidate for building serious Content Management System, and I have started working on Repeater Fields, including editorJs field, image Field, and selector for choosing templates... Combined with Laravel Blade templating, this is a good prototype for a future […]
24 May 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
a very nice prototyping feature given by FilamentPHP is the possibility to create select multiple values in the form with options from a class scoped array , without creating BelongToMany relationships that involve an extra table. The kind of issue for which sushi package was created, but we don't need that here, or I might […]
21 May 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
While searching for new ways of dealing with custom tailwind css templates within modern CMS, I searched wysiwyg editor news. Components https://editorjs.io has block management, and can convert a block type : imagine you start typing a text and want it to be a header, editor js allows that. Gutenberg does not . https://quilljs.com/ looks […]
25 January 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
Dealing with large datasets is easy for a professionnal programmer, lots of solutions exist for database systems like Mysql and its famous phpmyadmin self hosted suite. But working with non technical colleagues involves creating smart interfaces, and you can start with pre defined CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) systems, also called BREAD (Browse, Read, Edit, […]
30 November 2023 by erwan | Leave a Comment
After switching to Gutenberg WordPress content management, I investigate various alternatives. In this article I will review Kirby CMS, whose block based content editor is similar to Gutenberg, but better looking. Content Management While Kirby CMS does not include column block as it exists in Gutenberg, or in CRAFTCMS Matrix Field, default Kirby CMS setup […]
3 May 2014 by erwan | Leave a Comment
I liked the look and design of a french travel agency website, http://www.doublesens.fr/ : a quick investigation into the inner engine that powers the simple layout , clean drop down menu and wift responsivness led me to LOCOMOTIVE CMS a promising new CMS built on rails and specialized on custom post types. Its website features a nice […]
16 June 2009 by erwan | Leave a Comment
A few months ago I published a quick comparison of 3 opensource cmses that come with a form builder. At the time the form builder feature was quite new and innovative, it now comes as a standard feature in a lot of web publishing solutions. I have reviewed a few hosted form makers, such as […]
2 September 2008 by erwan | Leave a Comment
This article makes a quick comparison of 3 popular PHP Content management Systems : Concrete5, Silverstripe and WordPress. While Concrete5 and Silverstripe are two real content management frameworks, WordPress is hugely popular as a blogging platform and each new version brings new feature that make it perfectly usable as a CMS, provided you install specific plugins such as PageMash. […]