I discovered this great software just some days ago and spent most of my nights in getting it to work.
I do not make money with setting up or developing sites, so hopefully my questions will not be too silly for you...
Although being an amateur I have a big site on a motorsport called Rallycross and this thing is getting really big (http://www.rallycross.de). Now I need to convert it to a cms. And I chose to use phpWCMS. I am currently using my Mac to develop it and I will later transfer the system to my provider's Linux system.
However, I have several problems:
(1) My site is bi-lingual, which means it is in German and English. Therefore I need to switch between these two languages and therefore I need two site trees. Is this possible with phpWCMS? Not all content that is availabe in one language is availabe in the other language.
(2) If you look at my site then you see that I for example have a lot of news online and even more news offline. In order to get the same thing done in phpWCMS, there are two problems.
(2a) As the articles have a start and end time, I want my news section to show all articles that have a valid date and then I would move it to the archive. However, I want to see the COMPLETE news and not only the headline.
(2b) I don't want to promote the first article. All of the articles should look the same way.
(3) I have a question on the structure of articles. Most of my articles have a headline and a main text. Some of them have pictures. Some of them have html code incuding tables with pictures (like the sales news). All of this seems to be possible with articles and content parts. However, each content part has its own headline and sub-head. Is it right, that I should not add text to the headline and the sub-head of all content parts, if my article just contains a regular message consisting of a single headline and the news?
(4) Sometimes I have articles that only show a kind of teaser text on the news page and the full articles is shown when you click on a link. For example look at the German part of the site. The article "On Yer Bike Colin – Terve Mikko!" is a good example for that. How do I handle this type of article?
(5) Silly question from an amateur: Are there pre-made templates somewhere? After I installed my copy of the system, there were no templates available. As I did not find any pre-made templates, I actually typed in the text from Olivers movie, when he showed the template entry page. I know this was silly, but I did not find any other way to quickly get the system to work with valid data.
However, if you could publish some templates in a text file, it would help me and others starting to learn the system. At least I think so.
Well


Anyhow, Oliver you did a great job

Thanks
Andreas Schrader aka Rallycross