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Originally Posted by eon  You know what it means 
I wanted to come back here and say that I have successfully modified the hell out of the default template and css. It took about 16 hours... all day yesterday and most of today so far.
There is a pretty nasty learning curve for anyone just coming into pligg... BUT... if you're a real webbie... you'll get through it. I was just frustraded that there was no other way... other than putting on my web boots and getting dirty.
There are quite a few little tedious things that take a lot of time to iron out though... pretty anoying. I hate the tiny hour long problems |
I would have to disagree with your statements on the learning curve with Pligg - some 5 months back (December 2006 I guess) it just took me 3 hours to understand the flow (I also referred to several posts in the general help section that clarified many of my doubts), and if I got struck I used to post my doubts in here and the ever online Pligg dev team used to reply promptly in brief making me understand the whole pligg stuff in just 10 hours since beginning. I had doubts with the smarty system which I cleared off by reading stuff from smarty.net. Within a week of so i was able to start contributing with modules and install+customize Pligg with ease.
Now I even accept client projects for people who want a very custom Pligg installation (performing non-standard Pligg functionalities) Eg:
http://memeorlame.com, Do1thing (launching June) and some minor module developments.
So learning Curve of Pligg is dependent on the interest level of the learner - more you are interested less steep it is, lesser your interest - more steeper it is.
But I have to admit this 1 thing: Comparing to other CMS systems like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla - people feel islated and hard with Pligg - just because it lacks a documentation. But with all our efforts it can be built at the Pligg Wiki site (I forgot its link)
Added by Yankidank: Wiki URL