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Roadmap - Questionaire Responses for AA CAMP 2004 |
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1. Main problems and annoyances you encounter when using ActionApps
Compared with other Content Management systems it requires a fairly high level of technical expertise to set up a slice (i.e. a mixture of ssi coding, html, ftp...), which I feel puts up an unnecessary technical barrier to entry.
The way this would work would be to allow a slice to be created based on another (template or existing) slide. This would allow the new user to quickly get a slice up and running without having to learn the finer points of ActionApps.
2. Features suggested for future development versions of ActionApps
I would like to see a template library. There would be standard simple templates supplied in the standard install and the ability to export/import templates so they can be shared (maybe through a website). The technical problem is that there is a mixture of .shtml files on the file system and code in the database so exactly how this works will require some thought. I guess the 'package' would have a .sql file in it and two .shtml files. I personally favour having all configuration code in the database but migrating to this would be a lot of work.
3. Comments About Usablility
Would like to see the manual go into a bit more detail of the field screens, but I am a fairly new user.
4. General future development suggestions
Currently ActionApps allows index/main page slices and forms. I would like to see a 'Home Page Builder' to enable single pages to be managed in ActionApps. I guess at the moment single pages of this type are build as static pages, obviously it would be good for a non technical person to be able to change this content.
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Ben Edwards
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