Milestone 3 Beginning

For Milestone 3, my group is cutting down the CMS's from 4 to 2, and unfortunately I had to give up SilverStripe. I think SilverStripe is a great CMS, but I believe because it is fairly new, there is just too many problems and not much documentation.

One of the problems I found from SilverStripe was tinyMCE, and the fix could be found here. This little/tiny thing would comment out any script or other html tags that you put into it. So, for the UH Dorm Energy Competition Project which needs graphs, videos, and scripts; it would not allow any of it on the site.

Another problem is things such as themes are not standardized within the SilverStripe community. When I had a layout on one theme and needed to change to another, the layout I had did not transfer over and certain things did not work.

The biggest problem that made a huge deal with the project was the CAS Login System. SilverStripe did not support it. Also, there is no documentation and no one could answer my post about it.

But besides these problems, I think that SilverStripe has potential.

So, I am joining David to work with the CMS Joomla. I am excited to work on this CMS because it has been around for a while and there is plenty of documentation.

So, tune in next week and I'll show you what we have put together for the UH Dorm Energy Competition so far.