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"Multiclient WebSites with the Typo3 Content Management System and WURFL
by Martin Kindler, cityExperience.net
Introduction
With the advent of the mobile internet web site designers face a new problem. They have to design sites which work well on the "normal" desktop system as well as on mobile devices. Mobile devices, typically handsets, smart phones, or PDAs, are not only restricted in their features, they also vary a lot in their individual capabilities as screen sizes, supported markup languages, etc. Another important fact is that mobile devices are used in other usage contexts than PCs. As their name says they are being used "mobile", on the walk or in a commuter train. Thus the user may want to use the device single-handedly. He has no fine-grain control with the pointing device and so on. For the web site designer this poses the problem of how to give the user the best possible experience on his device without developing (and maintaining) a lot of independent web sites.
Nowadays (web) content management systems (CMS) are a common means to separate content from design. When deciding on the tools to use for a new multiclient web site, it is important to know how the CMS helps the designer in creating easy to maintain web sites for mobile as well as desktop clients.
In this article we study the features for multiclient support of the well-known Open Source CMS Typo3.
The Typo3 Content Management System
Typo3 is a free Open Source content management system for enterprise use. It offers great flexibility and expendability as well as a lot of ready-made modules for nearly every purpose you can think of. One could also view Typo3 as a framework for developing web applications. Nowadays it competes with full-grown commercial CMS. It is one of the fastest growing CMSes in the market.
The Typo3 project has been started by Kasper Skårhøj in 1997 and since then an active community has developed which gives it a lot of support and thrust.
Typo3 is written in PHP and uses a relational data base (typically MySQL) for the storage of its data. For a full list of its features look at http://typo3.com and http://typo3.org .
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"Multiclient WebSites with the Typo3 Content Management System and WURFL
by Martin Kindler, cityExperience.net
Introduction
With the advent of the mobile internet web site designers face a new problem. They have to design sites which work well on the "normal" desktop system as well as on mobile devices. Mobile devices, typically handsets, smart phones, or PDAs, are not only restricted in their features, they also vary a lot in their individual capabilities as screen sizes, supported markup languages, etc. Another important fact is that mobile devices are used in other usage contexts than PCs. As their name says they are being used "mobile", on the walk or in a commuter train. Thus the user may want to use the device single-handedly. He has no fine-grain control with the pointing device and so on. For the web site designer this poses the problem of how to give the user the best possible experience on his device without developing (and maintaining) a lot of independent web sites.
Nowadays (web) content management systems (CMS) are a common means to separate content from design. When deciding on the tools to use for a new multiclient web site, it is important to know how the CMS helps the designer in creating easy to maintain web sites for mobile as well as desktop clients.
In this article we study the features for multiclient support of the well-known Open Source CMS Typo3.
The Typo3 Content Management System
Typo3 is a free Open Source content management system for enterprise use. It offers great flexibility and expendability as well as a lot of ready-made modules for nearly every purpose you can think of. One could also view Typo3 as a framework for developing web applications. Nowadays it competes with full-grown commercial CMS. It is one of the fastest growing CMSes in the market.
The Typo3 project has been started by Kasper Skårhøj in 1997 and since then an active community has developed which gives it a lot of support and thrust.
Typo3 is written in PHP and uses a relational data base (typically MySQL) for the storage of its data. For a full list of its features look at http://typo3.com and http://typo3.org .
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