Using sIFR in CMSMS

[sydneysunshine]

Hi there! I'm developing a site that uses a custom template and I need to use sIFR. I haven't worked with js much at all but have previously implemented sIFR on a non-CMS based site.

Has anyone implemented this technique on their CMSMS site and if so, how?

Basically I get the part about the {literal} tags, and I've got the sifr.js and .swf file uploaded (within the images dir) but the replacement isn't loading. I'm assuming I've made a mistake along the way somehow with the stylesheets, but I'd love some advice to save me hunting through the site to figure out my mistake


Thanks, Christine

[sydneysunshine]

hehe (looking sheepish again!) well of course it takes me a while, but I figured out that I had to put the absolute link to the flash file in the script down the bottom of the html template. So now I can explain how to embed sIFR it if anyone has trouble.

[sydneysunshine]

Hi again - I thought I'd revive my own post as I have a new sIFR related issue 

So my question is - has anyone used sIFR in a CMSMS site?

I am having issues with the text rendering (if that's what you call it) in that each replaced heading is a different size. From what I have read on the sifr forum, CMSMS may need to do something tricky with sifr for it to work properly but I dont know enough about the script to know what to do. I have tried line height and letter spacing to no avail.

Here are two example pages to show the differences in h2 size in case anyone knows about it.
http://www.bridges.org.au/cms/index.php?page=about
and
http://www.bridges.org.au/cms/index.php ... idges_work
thanks!!

[3stripe]

Hey, very interested to hear someone asking about sIFR in CMSMS! 

Was it hard to set up?

It would be great if it could be a plugin module!

I'm new here, but on my Wordpress sites I've used a really nice Wordpress sIFR plugin which you can read about at http://wp-plugins.net/plugin/sifr/

Cheers

James

[cyberman]

So my question is - has anyone used sIFR in a CMSMS site?

Are you meaning somethink like TruetypeText module  ...

[3stripe]

Ah... it has a cunning name... does it do the same thing?

[cyberman]

Please look here ...

If you think that html text isn't sexy, try TruetypeText ! It allows you to show any text in any Truetype font. You can also add a shadow and rotate the text. Available languages : french, english, german

[psy]

Hi

My 2 cents worth....

I have sites that use the imagetext plugin - which I really like.  I played with the TrueType text module and while it had great features, it also seemed to lack some of the functionality of Imagetext and I didnt receive any response to my questions about it in the forum, so I looked for something new and discovered sIFR.  Sure sIFR 2.0 cant do shadow text etc but from an accessibility POV, it wins hands down.

I made 3 user-defined tags - one to insert the sifr.js in the header, one to specify the font attributes and the 3rd was the sifr() function which I put in the footer.  I used swfmill.exe to generate the flash fonts and uploaded them to uploads/File/swffonts dir.

Works like a charm. Examples are at www.greatvibrations.com.au and www.bulahdelahdressage.org.au

These two sites have basically the same layout.  With a few tweaks to the CSS and my sIFR tags, I have two very different sites.  Great Vibrations uses Marker Felt Pen Wide in the banner and Marker Felt Pen in the indented quotes and heading styles.  BDC uses Papyrus for heading styles.

I havent had the time or energy to create a CMSMS module and am not even sure it's a good idea (read about where to insert the js in the sIFR doco) but if someone wants to do it, it shouldnt be too difficult.


HTH
psy

PS:  Let me know if anyone has a better method for using sIFR in CMSMS

[cyberman]

I made 3 user-defined tags - one to insert the sifr.js in the header, one to specify the font attributes and the 3rd was the sifr() function which I put in the footer.  I used swfmill.exe to generate the flash fonts and uploaded them to uploads/File/swffonts dir.

Would be nice if you could share your Tags here 

http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... _tags_here

Thx.

[psy]

OK will tidy them up a bit first then put them there 
psy