[opencms-dev] Newbie documentation

[Jonathan Woods]

The biggest choice is whether to base your site on Template Two or to build
things from scratch.  Imho, for an experienced JSP/Java developer, it's
simpler to do the latter - otherwise, instead of programming in Java and JSP
with the occasional foray into OpenCms source code to work out what's going
on, you're programming in the strange and
probably-not-awfully-well-documented world of Template Two.  Basing a site
on TemplateTwo also means that unless your requirements happen to be similar
to those delivered by Template Two, you're in for a lot of customisation.

The OpenCms 7 book is probably a good place to start.

Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org
[mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of David Goodenough
Sent: 23 October 2008 15:00
To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
Subject: [opencms-dev] Newbie documentation

I am a newcommer to OpenCMS, and I made the mistake of reading the
documentation before I installed the code (and thus came across the demos).

I was further confused by the presence of many google results which refered
to earlier versions of OpenCMS - my impression now is that life has changed
a lot since those were written.

>From the documentation I got the distinct impression that updating the
template was a matter of modifying JSP code (which I am fine with), it was
only when I looked at the demos that I found out about templateTwo which
seems to eliminate (for simple uses like mine) all need to change the JSP
and means that I need to look for the _config_ directory and fill things in
there.

Has anyone written a 7x getting started (I can only find 5.x and 6.x ones)
which goes through from once you have installed the code to a simple site
being usable from a browser?  This would be really useful to newcommers like
me were it to exist.

I have worked out where I tailor the heading and footer, but I am having
problems understanding the setting up of the basic site separate from all
the demos, documentation and release notes.  

I have found the "Newbie guide to getting started with OpenCms 6.0" guide at
http://opencmsnewbie.netfirms.com/, which seems simple enough, but it is
written to 6.x not 7.x, and I get the impression that life got even simpler
with 7.x.

David

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