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How would you compare Gestalt to other CMS platforms?
Gestalt is similar to other CMS platforms in the sense that using it you can publish and organize content online, create a customized look for your site, invite visitors to your site to participate in dissuasions via comments, and host files.
What sets Gestalt apart from all those other CMS systems is the fact that it’s totally user configurable. Anyway that you can think of to bend Gestalt, it will allow you to. Say you want a simple site with news, information about your restaurant, and a photo gallery (see http://misolounge.com), or maybe you want a site like http://missournet.com with millions of articles, podcasts, ad banners, and blogs.
What is the process of building templates like?
Building a template for Gestalt is pretty easy thanks to the build in “pseudocode” system. Using it you can create a template however you are most comfortable with then insert special tags where you want content to appear, when Gestalt runs across these tags it will insert articles or anything else that you tagged it with. For more information on pseudocode, please see the Working with Pseudocode article.
Is it easy to change a web site's entire theme/skin/layout?
What are some WordPress analogies for parts of Gestalt?
What are some Drupal analogies for parts of Gestalt?
What are some Movable Type analogies for parts of Gestalt?
What are some DotNetNuke/PHPNuke analogies for parts of Gestalt?
What are some Plone analogies for parts of Gestalt?
How much of working on a G2 site happens with editing of files, and how much happens with a web interface?
Is it easy to import data into a G2 site?
How to I create new pages?
How to I link between pages?
How do I add images?
Does Gestalt support blogging?
Does Gestalt support RSS?
How is multimedia content handled in Gestalt? Can you run a podcast with it?
Can I add new pages by uploading Word or PDF documents to the site?
Can I add new pages by emailing material to the web site?
How do I build up the contents of a page?
Is there a way to build pages in a specific format and edit it all at once, or do elements on a page always have to be edited item by item?
Can I set up VIP logins for my audience?
What prevents unauthorized access to the editing tools?
Can Gestalt use LDAP authentication?
Can Gestalt use NTLM authentication?
Can Gestalt use OpenID authenticaiton?
Can Gestalt use SSL login forms?
Is Gestalt vulnerable to XSS attacks?
Is Gestalt vulnerable to SQL Injection attacks?
What are the default capabilities of the Gestalt toolkit, and what components that are standard elsewhere must be added on?
How extendable from the default configuration is Gestalt?
How are add-on components installed into a Gestalt site?
If I want to tweak the code for some parts of the system, is it set up to let me make those changes without affecting the core functions?
What license is Gestalt distributed under?
What operating systems can I host a Gestalt site with?
Is there an audit trail for changes made to a particular page?
Is there a versioning system for changes made to a particular page?
Can I set up Gestalt to require content to be approved before being published?
Are privileges for performing different tasks in the site granular?
Are there code templates or skeleton documents in Gestalt to make it easier for new developers to get started using it?
Is there a spell checker?
Is there a WYSIWYG text editor?
Is there a page caching mechanism that speeds up delivery of request by skipping most of the work needed to generate the output?
Does the system have an ad banner management tool?
Can content be added and automatically scheduled to appear on the site at a certain date and time?
Does Gestalt have an integrated search engine that can index and retrieve content from a search field?
Can Gestalt generate the proper output to optimize the indexing of a site by external search engines?
Can Gestalt act as a wiki?
