topic Is Alfresco easy to use to create websites? in Alfresco Archive

Is Alfresco easy to use to create websites?

jazzer — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:24:38 GMT

I am researching CMSs and am very interested in Alfresco. However, I am disappointed in the lack of documentation on how to use it to create a website without a team of java programmers.In looking at Drupal or Joombla, they play up the ease of website creation and adding widgets or webscripts to a p

Re: Is Alfresco easy to use to create websites?

jpfi — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:36:15 GMT

Hi,
first, yub 60k can be true in a large multi server environment and only when using Alfresco Enterprise.
To answer your question, no, you don't need to program a single of java code, but perhaps some lines of javascript and freemarker suing Alfresco Web Scripts: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Scripts.
But I'm not sure what you're really searching. Are you searching sth. like this: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Dynamic_Website or perhaps http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/WSF.
Alfresco is more than a simple CMS like joomla or drupal. It is more generic and a ECM system where CMS (WCM) is only a module. But this means also, that Alfresco is sometimes a bit more complicated to use than joomla or drupal, it just depends what you want to achieve.
Cheers, Jan

Re: Is Alfresco easy to use to create websites?

jazzer — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:18:19 GMT

Thanks for the info, the Alfresco Dynamic Website sounds like just what I've been looking for. Unfortunately there is no indication as to when it will be released.

Does anyone know the timetable on ADW? If its a few months I can wait, otherwise I'll have to start looking for something else.