Comments on: Typolight CMS 2.7 Review

By: miika

miika — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:06:37 +0000

Thank you for the information Nina.

I think I'm going to try TYPOlight again, it seemed like a really good and professional system.

thanks,m
ps: try it out it is really good, takes a while to get in but it's definetly worth it.

By: Nina

Nina — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:51:26 +0000

There's been a relaunch of the official website (English and German version) in September. The online manuals are up to date now.

Only the videos aren't but we are working on that right now.

Users guide:
http://www.typolight.org/documentation.html

Developers guide:
http://www.typolight.org/developers-guide.html

By: miika

miika — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:40:38 +0000

I tried implementing typolight in august 2009. To me it looked like a perfect canditate for small homepage CMS, BUT the user documents and manuals were outdaded. Escpecially about how to handle/create templates and styles. In the typo forums there was a discussion about update the manuals and they admitted that the english manuals were outaded and no longer valid. Keep this in mind if you think about implementing this sowftware.

I thought it was a really nice software and I'm going to trye it out again- when they update the manuals.

/m
ps:To my understanding the german manuals were up-to date.

By: Ross

Ross — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:41:25 +0000

Nice review.

Actually, TYPOlight theming is much easier than other CMS's like Drupal, Joomla, TYPO3 or even Wordpress.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:14:41 +0000

That's a solid review, Mike. Thanks for taking the time to do that. I want to address some things in the first two "cons" listed near the end of the review.

#1 - Regarding the English community / forum, please realize that it is actually at http://www.typolight-community.org and not the abandoned forum linked to in the site header. This will remain for reference purposes but is not the active community. (Mike, I think you already know this, but I wanted to point it out for readers.)

#2 - There are two screencasts near the bottom right of this page (http://www.typolight.org/books-and-videos.html) that cover the basics of creating modules and a page layout to get things working ("How to create a page layout"). The one beneath shows "How to use a custom page layout", so you could take a pre-coded xhtml / css template and fit it into the system.

Rene - the lack of a public svn repository is the very reason TYPOlight is such a stable and bug-free application.

By: rene

rene — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:14:07 +0000

Have you found a public svn repo? Don't start to search it, it does not exist.

Therefore I started a fork on typolight. Wanted to have a open developing process and backported released of typolight. http://github.com/opentypolight

The funny thing is, every one liked the idea but no one really wanted to contribute (so far).

By: Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:26:16 +0000

Thanks for your comments Nina and for voicing your opinion. I appreciate it.

I also wasn't aware of that free template so thanks for posting that as well.

By: Nina

Nina — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:23:07 +0000

I'd also like to add that you cannot compare commercial TYPOlight templates for example with Wordpress templates. The templates sold at the Inetrobots-Shop are not only packages of images/CSS. They are complete websites with all core-modules installed, configured and styled. That means:
- news module
- contact form
- events module (even different layouts)
- glossary module
- complete example for a password-saved area (extranet) with login-module, lost password-module, member data-login, etc.
- newsletter module
- etc.

There's A LOT of time put into these templates.

So in my opinion the price is very fair.

By: Nina

Nina — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:05:35 +0000

There is the standard template (Music Academy) that gets shipped with the TYPOlight core. Another free TYPOlight template is available at http://www.ena-webstudio.com/...-typolight-template.html

Creating your own theme is actually quite easy if you know CSS and understand the CSS-Framework of TYPOlight. I have to admit though, that the english informations on that topic are not enough yet. We are working on it. :)