It was quite easy doing it (I was frightened at the idea of doing it with Joomla!) and the customers learned how to manage it in half a day. Plus, with its good user management, I could decide since the beginning what he can and can’t see, beginning to macro areas and ending with single form fields.

Once you get into its logic (something that requires just some trying and look around through example website and docs) it’s also quite easy to customize, having every FE and BE area its own template, which can be easily overrided without modifying the core.

Plus it has well written modules which integrate perfectly into the CMS structure, mantaining the BE aspect and layout (something that, e.g., Joomla! miss in most of its modules), so a costumer hasn’t to learn and understand different control panels for each and every task he has to do, like e.g. inserting a photogallery (someone said Phoca gallery?!?).
Also modules are easy managed through BE area and you can browse and install them with just few clicks.

I’m enthusiast about it, and I wanted to thank Federico because I discovered it just through his article :)

you seemed very enthousiastic, a few months back, about typolight. And what about now are you still thinnking it’s the best cms ever created? did you use or are you still using it? if not, what is your php choice for this kind of software.

i’m asking you, because your reading is, for me, still very inspiring.

thanks for your answers

Thanks

I know that the demo is reserved to beta testers right now but its far beyond everything I’ve ever seen. And by the way includes already all the features you mention plus even more !

o- it’s _not_ a community driven project
o- it required an ugly signature in the source code (like typo3, phpwcms..)
o- leo’s ask for denouncement: http://www.typolight.org/forum/message/50894.html is the point where i decided to no more use this piece of code
o- the core is too feature rich, too heavy for simple website and it not scales well for larger ones

But that is about the concept. About the support from the developer community, I think Drupal is at the bottom of the list. I think TYPOLight is better in this respect.

Drupal has hundreds of modules available that allows you to create whatever you can think of, and if it doesn’t exist, there is a Content Creation Kit (CCK) for you to create your own stuff.

I saw this CMS looking for the best of them all and even though Federico is right when he says that is not an easy task to maintain procedural code, they have their reason why they did it that way.

If you have any other CMS to show me, I will be happy to see it.