SilverStripe Learning

Alright!!! now so far our group has researched the four different CMS' that we chose, dotCMS, Drupal, Joomla, and SilverStripe. And so far, it looks that all four of the CMS' can do what we want them to do. At first we were following the mockup that was shown like this.



But as each of us tried to work with our CMS, it was difficult to make it that way. So we all agreed to "try and make it the way the CMS wants to make it". And so we set off to make what we can.

The difficult thing I had with SilverStripe was getting the thing to work. And that wasted a lot of time. But do not get me wrong, SilverStripe is very easy to use and download and get running if you already do not have another server running on your computer. I had Apache and the one that downloaded with SilverStripe. So if you do not have a server application already, then the SilverStripe download will be super easy.

But during that time of frustration, I researched first for the things that SilverStripe can do. And I found that it might be a problem with google gadgets, which is one of the biggest things that is needed for our project. So far there is nothing in the documentation and online that says google gadget can be easily used.

This is a big problem for the project, so as far as I can see right now, SilverStripe is something that we might not use. But that is not final yet, because I have gotten SilverStripe working correctly on my machine and I will see if google gadgets will be a problem yet or not. So wait for next week on my new post and see if SilverStripe will still be used.