We want to explain several aspects of Genuine in terms of blog posts.
Following a list of intended posts, which we'll publish from time to time (priorities in parenthesis, whereas 1 is lowest and 5 highest value).
Introductive Articles
- Introduction to the Genuine Development (5)
Covers basic structure of development: differntiates interface design trail from technology trail. Presents some of the most notably proposed features. - Making Simple Enterprise Content Management Even Simpler (4)
Highlights most important improvements of Genuine compared to the pre Magnolia 4.0 interface. Basically the Genuine Analysis section is covered in this article.
Interaction Related Articles
- Managing Content with Genuine (5)
This series of articles describes how users are intended to create, edit, find and restructure pages and content. Furthermore bulk editing, content publishing, importing/exporting data and browsing versions is discussed. Covers the "Managing Content" section of the Genuine Concept. - Managing Security in Genuine (3)
This article covers the "Managing Security" section of the Genuine Concept. It basically describes problems with the current security UI and how one could improve it so that the user can take advantage of Magnolia's sophisitcated security model more effectively. - System Administration with Genuine (2)
Discusses which steps Genuine should take to allow improvements regarding the configuration part of Magnolia in future releases. Refactoring the configuration section in Magnolia is not yet the primary goal for the 4.0 release. However this articles shows in which direction Genuine could go and which aspects might be important in the future, E.g. the support of module configuration dialogs.
Usability Related Articles
- Serving Different Users Needs (3)
This article characterizes the different types of users working with Magnolia. The goal of the article is to sensitize developers to the requirements and expectations of the targeted user group. - Providing Help (4)
In this article the usability aspect of "ease-of-learn" along with suggestions on how to achieve it is covered in detail.
Feature Details
- Introducing the List Editing Mode (5)
The list editing mode is one of the most notably new features in Magnolia which allows editing of content in a generical, template independent manner. This articles shows the intentions and functionalities of this feature in detail. - Editing in Multiple Modes: Preview vs. List Editing Mode (5)
This article discusses the pros and cons of the two available modes for editing and managing content. - Components and Controls in Genuine (5)
This in depth article describes the rich set of UI components and controls needed in Magnolia. As such this post also describes technical requirements for the frontend UI widget technology of choice. - Indicating Status in Genuine (4)
Consistently and effectively indicating the application's status is a very important step in terms of the overall usability of Genuine. That's why this feature is covered in detail in this article. - Keyboard Support in Genuine (4)
One major improvement of Genuine is the support for keyboard interaction which will be ubiquitous in the Magnolia UI. This article describes where and how keyboard support can or must be introduced. - Drag and Drop Support in Genuine (2)
Discusses the minimal required drag and drop support offered by the underlying widget technology. Further the technical limitations of drag and drop support are discovered.
Technical Articles
- Architectural Discussion: Web Services vs. Java Server Faces Approach (4)
Discusses the basic arguments behind the decisions taken by the Magnolia developers in order to choose the Web Service approach. - Discussing Webservice Orchestration for Content Management Systems (3)
Discusses possible decomposition borders for the web services provided by Magnolia in order to retrieve data from the content management system.
Miscellaneous Articles
- Avoiding User Confusion: URIs in Magnolia Uncovered (3)
URIs and virtual URIs are used in Magnolia all over the place. However, users working with the current Magnolia do not allways know why this and that happens once entered a certain URI which yields user confusion or even frustration. This article uncovers all the uses of URIs in Magnolia and presents a suggestion on how to solve of the discussed problems.
This is only a preliminary list. Other articles will follow as soon as discussions appear.