[noob] Basic high-level WCM question

[matthewadams]

Ok, so I'm an Alfresco newbie, but I'm a very experienced Java developer, especially with dynamic Spring-powered sites with database back ends.  Now, I'm having a little trouble trying to figure out how to use Alfresco Community Edition 3.2 WCM to build a fairly static website, but one for which I want mere mortals to be able to create and edit content in your basic WYSIWYG fashion.

I've installed ACE 3.2 WCM, and I have my CSS in hand, and a few pages of body content in my head.  My web hosting provider is your basic LAMP deal (justhost.com), and they offer basic static hosting as well as Joomla.

So, what are my basic tasks to create a site locally on my dev machine so that I'm using my CSS to make things pretty, do WYSIWYG content editing (as much as is reasonable), stage locally, then publish the site to my LAMP hosting provider using FTP if I go with a basic static site.  Alternatively, if I should use Joomla, I have no clue how to publish to it using ACE 3.2 WCM.  It's not really evident to me, even though I've gone through many of the videos offered on the site.

Advice from Alfresco veterans geared toward someone coming from the Spring/Java/Tomcat perspective would be just superdandy.

Thanks,
Matthew

[matthewadams]

[sound of crickets]

Anyone?

[mrogers]

Deployment via ftp is not supported out of the box.

However, for a static site one option you would deploy it to a file system and then run some sort of batch command to ftp that content to your lamp server.  There's other options but that will get you started.

[ben]

One other option is to access the Staging sandbox via FTP and to then upload your content.  The downside of this approach is that you will always have to upload the entire website rather than the delta.

As Mr Rogers states above, deploying locally via an FSR, and then using ftp may be the best option.

Ben.