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Greg McAvoy-Jensen
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Saturday 28 May 2011 11:39:58 pm
Sao, Good for you for keeping at it. You're learning not only a CMS, but an entire content management framework, so the work in learning will be harder, and the rewards likewise will be greater. The quickest way to learn is to be on an eZ Publish team. If you aren't part of a team, which includes folks who know more than you, try keeping the #ezpublish freenode IRC chat open all the time. You've been at it long enough you'll have knowledge to share with folks just starting out, and you can easily pop in questions like, where's the best place to learn about creating a new datatype. Folks who have been around long enough will know which of the eZ Publish manuals to refer to you to, or an article such as this one: http://share.ez.no/learn/ez-publish/creating-datatypes-in-ez-publish-4
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Sao Tavi
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Sunday 29 May 2011 7:16:11 am
Thank you for your answer. Yes, I should probably get online on IRC and ask there my questions. That will get me going, the only problem is that others with the same questions just like mine won't have access to the answers like they would if I ask on the forums. Thank you for the link, I already read it and tried to follow it. It gives an intro to datatypes, explains some concepts and basics. But if he only would have created a really small datatype (some hello world in datatype realm), given the source codes, it would have been a lot better. Of course, the information as it is is very good, but incomplete. It would help someone understand the complexity of datatypes, shows some directions for what to do next, but that is it. What I like in a tutorial is to read, copy/paste and check the results. Then make my modifications, read again to understand where I am doing wrong and recheck the results. And so on until I finally build a code that suits my needs. But I do need a place to start and, to be honest, I had no idea even where the built in modules/datatypes were located (that until learning the Coding standards). Maybe a tutorial like file structure in eZ Publish would be nice, as there are a lot to learn.
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Geir Arne Waaler
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Monday 30 May 2011 2:15:27 am
Hello Sao! I am sorry to read about your troubles. It is of little comfort for you now, but we are working on making it easier. We used to have some good tutorials, especially the one I am updating right now. What we plan is the following:
- We will update an old tutorial on "How to build an eZ Publish site".
- We will make 2 versions of this document: One on how to build a simple site and one on how to build a multi-site.
This will necessarily take some time, but we are working on it! In the meantime...are you willing to read through a draft on "How to build an eZ Publish site", to see if that would help you at all? Best regards
Geir Arne Waaler
eZ Documentation
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Tomislav Buljević
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Monday 20 June 2011 3:54:49 am
Hello Sao! Well, the learning curve is tough when you work alone, but I have devised a beginner's guide just to get you started. Feel free to check it out at escapestudio.net. You have a bunch of examples there and you can build small websites from scratch using it. I didn't come to the more advanced parts yet, but it's worth checking it out. Maybe it will clarify some points. Best regards, Tomislav
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cousin mosquito
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Thursday 25 August 2011 5:34:59 pm
Hello Sao! Well, the learning curve is tough when you work alone, but I have devised a beginner's guide just to get you started. Feel free to check it out at escapestudio.net. You have a bunch of examples there and you can build small websites from scratch using it. I didn't come to the more advanced parts yet, but it's worth checking it out. Maybe it will clarify some points. Best regards, Tomislav
Thats great stuff Tomislav, we need more introductory stuff like that. Not everyone out there is an actual programmer. I wouldnt have thought you'd need to be to run a CMS, but its a hard road if you are not. Keep up the good work.
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