Re: Meeting in Linz

Hello Rainer & others,

I'm a little bit amazed how many reactions my fast comment about the  
ZMS interface "triggered".
Let me get this straight: I'm working with ZMS for many years and  
still I love the endless possibilities
of the system. I worked with a lot of CMS (Drupal, typo3, Wordpress  
for example) and none of these
comes close to the flexibility of ZMS. And I agree the interfaces of  
typo3 or Joomla are awful. I'm not talking
about these. Wordpress on the other hand has a really good interface.  
Especially for blogging ZMS
is still not good enough because it lacks the features out of the box  
other systems like Wordpress provide.
On the other hand I'd love to have it all in one system so I don't  
have to explain both to the client.

What I'm saying is that the ZMS interface isn't as intuitive as you  
might think for SOME tasks.
The sorting for example would be a lot easier with drag & drop,  
especially for image galleries or long articles.
We solved this in our own mondberge.com interface with some jQuery  
magic, no big deal.

Perhaps the "lot of bad responses" gave you the wrong impression -  
we're talking about
5 out of 100 people. Still, for specific tasks like a online magazine/ 
community the ZMS
interface could be better. Look at our project www.mondberge.com - we  
ended up in
creating a new interface for managing articles, weblog posts and photo  
galleries.

I'll add some screenshots so you see what I'm talking about. I know  
this isn't for everyone
but I still dream of a better and easier way to improve the ZMS  
interface (ie. wider, lighter).
The table based layout is not very "state of the art" and could use  
some cleaning HTML/CSS
and provider better options like better CSS class assignments so  
everyone can customize
the interface.

I'm not saying the interface is bad and we got a lot (and this time  
I'm talking about the rest of the people)
good feedback, of course. I just like to discuss what should be  
improved and I'm open for
proposals if there are any.

Best,
Sebastian

Am 03.11.2009 um 22:27 schrieb Rainer Wollthan:

> Hello Sebastian,
>
> > lot of "bad" responses about that.
>
> we had a wide range of user's from high skilled programmers up to
> secretaries, all of them learned to use ZM(S)I very fast and we never
> had any "bad" responses about the way how to manage your content.
> I am glad that ZMS do not have a Typo3 or Joomla Adminpanel, but may
> you can give us a demo-login to your "new & fresh" interface so all of
> us can see the difference.
>
> Regards
> Rainer
>
>