I recently came across this CMS program and immediately liked it, mainly because of how simple it is. I am seriously considering to make some contributions to this project.
Especially because it is so straight forward I hope it will be easy to get into. But since talk is cheap, here is a first contribution: a translation of the admin pages to dutch:
http://www.contemplated.net/~thijs/nl_lang.zip.
While translating I discovered that some texts in the site are hardcoded, or at least not in the language file.
First contribution: Dutch language file
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Thijs
Re: First contribution: Dutch language file
Ok, in my haste to post this, I forgot to login... Also, I forgot to post my first question that was bugging me while translating
In the 0.6 version, one can link an "external stylesheet" to a webpage and also directly define inline styles. Why have both?
In the 0.6 version, one can link an "external stylesheet" to a webpage and also directly define inline styles. Why have both?
Re: First contribution: Dutch language file
Hey.Thijs wrote:Ok, in my haste to post this, I forgot to login... Also, I forgot to post my first question that was bugging me while translating
In the 0.6 version, one can link an "external stylesheet" to a webpage and also directly define inline styles. Why have both?
Thank you so much for the contribution. I'm going to get it into the 0.6.1 release.
I'm not sure of the question, though. The difference between the stylesheet in the template and the advanced CSS stuff?
That's mainly for flexibility. Some designers like to split up their CSS, especailly if they will be using the same elements in multiple templates.
Hope that helps.
wishy
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Thijs
you're welcome
You're welcome. I realize that "external" and "inline" stylesheet are not really the correct terms for this. I asked because I was wondering if this version of CMS (btw, I really like the name) was a transition from "per-page" to "attachable" stylesheets. From your response I gather they are both meant to stay.
Let me just quickly explain why I am interested in CMS. Two years ago, I wrote my own (initially) little content management program in Perl for some of the sites we have created. I will set up a demo shortly. Although it works reasonably well, I recently discovered PHP/MySQL (I supose I am the last one on this planet) and after having written some applications in it, I am in love with it. Rather than write the whole program all over again, I much rather like to add to an already existing and growing project.
In the near future I will be trying to extend HTMLarea with the very promising "realtime validating wysiwyg widget" plugin to get keep the HTML content as semantically clean as possible. See http://www.kyberfabrikken.dk/opensource/indite/.
Furthermore there is this image manager/editor plugin which I think would make CMS even more easy to use. See http://www.zhuo.org/htmlarea/.
Let me just quickly explain why I am interested in CMS. Two years ago, I wrote my own (initially) little content management program in Perl for some of the sites we have created. I will set up a demo shortly. Although it works reasonably well, I recently discovered PHP/MySQL (I supose I am the last one on this planet) and after having written some applications in it, I am in love with it. Rather than write the whole program all over again, I much rather like to add to an already existing and growing project.
In the near future I will be trying to extend HTMLarea with the very promising "realtime validating wysiwyg widget" plugin to get keep the HTML content as semantically clean as possible. See http://www.kyberfabrikken.dk/opensource/indite/.
Furthermore there is this image manager/editor plugin which I think would make CMS even more easy to use. See http://www.zhuo.org/htmlarea/.
First contribution: Dutch language file
Very cool! We'd be glad to have you aboard.
Both of those plugins for htmlarea look pretty good, and would be very easy to implement. All of the actual javascript is loaded in one spot, though I'm sure we'd have to do some magic to make the image uploading work properly.
Also, most of the dev decisions are made on the IRC channel, so you're welcome to come idle with us.
Thanks again!
wishy
Both of those plugins for htmlarea look pretty good, and would be very easy to implement. All of the actual javascript is loaded in one spot, though I'm sure we'd have to do some magic to make the image uploading work properly.
Also, most of the dev decisions are made on the IRC channel, so you're welcome to come idle with us.
Thanks again!
wishy
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Thijs
First contribution: Dutch language file
Thanks for the warm welcome. I'll install a IRC app as soon as possible (can you believe I never used one before?)
As I promised, a online demo of my perl CMS program. It lacks a lot of features that a good CMS should have, such as a database backend, user management, asset management, active content tags and more. It does, however have some pretty cool features as well (if I may say so).
First a quick walkthrough:
0. open CMS application at http://testsite.contemplated.net/cgi-bi ... ltered.cgi
1. press demo page.cnt
2. choose Edit page
3. press one of the block markers
4. edit block
5. Press
6. Note that page with editable blocks is updated
7. Press Publish
8. look at published page at http://testsite.contemplated.net/output/index.html
What I like most is that a page can consist of multiple editable blocks. That means that all of the true layout can be kept outside of editable area's, so that only the real content could be managed. Looking at it now, I think the WYSIWYG editor gave the user still too much power. Rather than allow access to paragraph styles, fonttypes and fontsizes it would be better to only allow the usage of definable set of styles. With HTMLArea that would be reasonably easy to implement.
This, together with a completely templated menu structure (yes, I have written a Perl program to do this!) would be something I would like to see in CMS somewhere in the future. In fact, this is the main point on my wishlist for CMS. For now, I am just going fiddle with CMS a bit until I sort of understand the code. It might take some time though, since I have a lot of other work to do as well (like finishing up my thesis
)
As I promised, a online demo of my perl CMS program. It lacks a lot of features that a good CMS should have, such as a database backend, user management, asset management, active content tags and more. It does, however have some pretty cool features as well (if I may say so).
First a quick walkthrough:
0. open CMS application at http://testsite.contemplated.net/cgi-bi ... ltered.cgi
1. press demo page.cnt
2. choose Edit page
3. press one of the block markers
4. edit block
5. Press
6. Note that page with editable blocks is updated
7. Press Publish
8. look at published page at http://testsite.contemplated.net/output/index.html
What I like most is that a page can consist of multiple editable blocks. That means that all of the true layout can be kept outside of editable area's, so that only the real content could be managed. Looking at it now, I think the WYSIWYG editor gave the user still too much power. Rather than allow access to paragraph styles, fonttypes and fontsizes it would be better to only allow the usage of definable set of styles. With HTMLArea that would be reasonably easy to implement.
This, together with a completely templated menu structure (yes, I have written a Perl program to do this!) would be something I would like to see in CMS somewhere in the future. In fact, this is the main point on my wishlist for CMS. For now, I am just going fiddle with CMS a bit until I sort of understand the code. It might take some time though, since I have a lot of other work to do as well (like finishing up my thesis
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marcofla
Re: First contribution: Dutch language file
Hello there,
I'm new to CMSMS and looking for a Dutch translation for the admin pages. The link in this post is not working and maybe too old. Can anyone help me out?
Tnx!
I'm new to CMSMS and looking for a Dutch translation for the admin pages. The link in this post is not working and maybe too old. Can anyone help me out?
Tnx!
