Hey everyone, I'll start explaining my idea.

It's a component wich allows you to do the following:

1. Create a custom content type (content item with custom fields).
2. Create a template (how the content type should be displayed).
3. Create unlimited content-items, based on the custom content types.

Example:

Create content-type painting, with custom fields: name, artist, medium, date painted, image of painting. Then create a template. Now create a new content-item, and select as content type painting. A form is automatically generated, where you can enter the name, artist, date painted and upload an image of the painting.

To get some idea's how to exactly make this, I'm going to look at some of the existing solutions:

• Drupal Content Constuction Kit (Kim Brebach told me about it in a comment of a previous post, thanks!)
• JoomSuite Content

If you have feature-requests or interesting idea's, now is the time, please tell me!
If you like the idea, please let me know in a comment, then I know some is reading this :)

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Jaap Woltjes is a Business Economics major from the Netherlands who is good at mathematics and physics. Jaap learned PHP programming and MySQL several years ago and has studied object orientated programming, design patterns and UML. He also has real world experience using Joomla! to build Web sites for small businesses. In fact, it is because of this experience that Jaap realized his GSoC idea would be helpful to end users. Jaap is excited at the prospect of participating in the GSoC and creating something that many find useful.

Mentor: Mickael Maison is from France but is currently a student in Computer Programming at the University of Teesside where he studies software development, artificial intelligence, and distributed systems. Last year, he was a Joomla! GSoC student and was invited to join the Joomla! Developer Team as a result of his success. Mickael participates in Web programming as a hobby and is fascinated by how quickly things can be accomplished. He enjoys music, guitar, travel, discovering cultures, and learning languages.

Many webdesigners use Joomla to allow their clients to edit their website. I know from experience the client hasn't got the knowlegde to make a complicated layout. He/she doesn't know much about pixels etc.

If the developer wants to allow their clients to create pages with a custom layout, he has to create a custom component for that.

My proposal will be a component where the developer can define a template, and the client can fill it up

Images are automatically resized, so the client can't mess up the layout.

When I posted my idea on the Joomla forum there were already people interested in using it.

Quote from DeborahSuzan on the Joomla forum:

"It would be a very helpful implementation"