[opencms-dev] Horrid start

[Thorsten K. Zeiller]

Bizarre?

I think your approach to CMS is bizarre!
You should leave the evaluation of OpenCMS to people who are able to
understand technical features. I cannot imagine any programmer or developer
who is interested in a theoretical discussion about the form of publishing
information how to install and use of a professional CMS!

greetings
Thorsten

sorry, but I get upset when I have to deal with people that act like grammar
school teachers ;-( , nobody is interested in the "antithesis of what the
web is about" and i think the guys from Alkacon and the community are really
doing a damned good job!!!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Pizey" <opencms at paneris.co.uk>
To: <opencms-dev at opencms.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 12:38 AM
Subject: [opencms-dev] Horrid start


Hi,

OpenCMS gives a bizarre first impression,
on the one hand it is brilliant, on the other stupid.

Great start:
Download, copy war to webapps, go!

Oh no, download Documentation module,
oh no download zipped PDF to find out how to install
Documentation module,
unzip
startup pdf browser, ferret through PDF,
to find that all you needed to do was click on upload module,
two levels in.

What is the explanation?

I think you must have technical authors on the staff,
who review their work in printed form.

PLEASE get rid of all PDF files, or at least have them as
an option, they are horrid, even if they look good and
print well they are the antithesis of what the web is about.

I have now spent the time available to me to evaluate OpenCMS,
most of that time was wasted reading waffle.

Please bundle EVERYTHING into one download.
Please get rid of the verbiage, the last time I saw
such waffle was when I tried to get to grips with
the Swedish Mimer DB, before that it was in
the eighties - people don't want leisurly prose
they want to know what to do, for preference in a text file,
html if you must, PDF is for managers not people who use systems.

I hope to get time to come back to OpenCMS,
but you never get a second chance to make a first impression,
out of the box I had no idea what this product was, what it could do
why I would need it, two hours later I have still got no idea.

yours
Tim Pizey


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