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Basic Website Template

pinkman — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:50:10 GMT

I am evaluating the WCM for use for our external website. I have to say I am struggling a little bit as to how to get started. I would like to create a basic 2 column + heading template, is there an example of how to do this somewhere? I haven't been able to find any Alfresco specific articles on th

Re: Basic Website Template

pinkman — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:18:25 GMT

After looking through the alfresco website from the demo, it appears that all HTML pages are entire pages unto themselves - it doesn't appear there is any templating used?

I was thinking of making a simple layout such as http://www.springframework.org/, where the header, title bar and left side are part of a template and the content in the middle comes from either XForms or is HTML.

The navigation bar I was thinking would be XML driven, and it would show only top level elements on the title bar, and children of the currently selected element on the left navigation bar. I have setup a XSLT for this and it is working (in a rudimentary way ), just not sure how to wrap this in a general template…

Re: Basic Website Template

kvc — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:46:43 GMT

Hi -

A good place to start would be a recently opened project on our forge site. This project provides a starter framework for a website. Take a look, and please let us know if you've any questions.

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/WSF

Kevin

Re: Basic Website Template

pinkman — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:54:17 GMT

Thanks for the prompt reply .

This looks like exactly what I need, my only worry is that it is a little new but I will give it a shot.

I tried logging in using SVN to https://forge.alfresco.com/svn/wsf, I tried guest, anonymous, blank and anon usernames but to no avail. What username do I use for guest access so I can download the 'demo-website.war' file? Any idea?

Re: Basic Website Template

ariyer — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:18:27 GMT

Re: Basic Website Template

pinkman — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:39:09 GMT

Alright I have booked it out from SVN, thanks for the help .

While WSF looks like it is definitely on the right track, and will be a great (much needed) addition to the Alfresco WCM arsenal, I don't think it is quite ready enough for us quite yet.

I could retro fit it to our needs, but time is of the essence for us unfortunately. I think we will roll out with Joomla (our web designer very familiar with Joomla). As time permits, and once the WSF project is more mature we will 'upgrade' our website to Alfresco.

Thanks for your help everyone - you are sure to hear back from me in a few months .