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Abstract: Custom Content Layouts
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Written by Jaap Woltjes   

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"

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2 Comments

  1. Kim Brebach makes this comment

    Jaap, this would be fantastic and many of my clients would value such a tool greatly. The Joomla backend is usually a little overwhelming for many CMS newbies. Are you thinking something along the lines of the Joomsuite / Joomcontent component in the core? see this discussion http://www.compassdesigns.net/joomla-blog/What-will-be-Joomla-1.5s-killer-app.html That would be so cool, apparently Drupal has something like this out of the box. We dont want to be left behind do we ;)

    Wed 07 May 2008 00:59:37 EDT

  2. Jaap Woltjes makes this comment

    Hey Kim, yes I'm going to make something like that. I wasn't aware of those solutions, so thanks for the link! I'm going to take the best things from those solutions, add some idea's, and create the best solutution for Joomla :).

    Fri 09 May 2008 08:17:44 EDT

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