Playing with EZWeb

This evening I've played a bit with EZWeb, the web application framework written by Jeffrey Palermo.

I've setup the site on this address on my server and I have to say that the project has totally reached its 2 main purposes:

  • Easy to install: you've only to copy on a virtual directory of your IIS server the content of the package and set a special permission to a directory and all is done.
  • Easy to edit contents: the site uses the FreeTextBox control to edit pages. You can easy create how many pages you want and edit content is so easy as writing a document with MS Word (so it's a task that can be improved also for a person that don't know nothing about HTML).

However, this post is expecially to send feedback for future improvements, and I think that some more work must be done on these areas:

  • Site Templates: the templates that are present now on the package are really too much "poor". Why not working on a graphical template, with images and CSS? The site's appearance is not so good for eyes I think...
  • User Administration: adding a user to the site is really easy, but why not adding a more complete user interface, with the possibility to add user's data for example?

Now two personal requests to Jeffrey:

  • How can I change user's permission? If I want to create a user that has permissions to add pages just like an administrato, how can I do? I've not understood this...
  • Is it possible to add a task list or a calendar feature to the site? I think that something like an "Outlook" calendar could be useful on a site like this.

Good work Jeffrey and thanks...

Print | posted on Wednesday, September 07, 2005 11:32 PM

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# Response to EZWeb feedback - level 100

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Stefano, in this post, gives some feedback about EZWeb 1.2 release 2.  He has set up EZWeb on his...
Left by Jeffrey Palermo on Sep 08, 2005 8:33 AM

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