Idea Arts - finally CMSMS driven.

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uniqu3

Idea Arts - finally CMSMS driven.

Post by uniqu3 »

Hi all,

finally i managed to release my own website in first beta stage driven with CMSMS instead of having onepage contactform website  :)
Currently there is only German version available but i do plan to add English and Blog section as soon as i have some more time again.

I will update it as soon as possible but i am lacking of time  :( and please do not try Printing it, i didn't add Print stylesheet yet, but try viewing it on iPhone  :)

The website is located: http://www.ich-mach-das.at/

Big thx to Calguy (as you can see most of modules are CG) and JeremyBass (i love scriptdeploy!)
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Cms Version: 1.7.1

Installed Modules:

Referenzen: 2.10.4 <- just renamed news module combined with Gallery
EditArea: 0.2.9
CGExtensions: 1.19
CGSimpleSmarty: 1.4.5
CGGoogleMaps: 1.4.1
CGFeedMaker: 1.0.11
CGFeedback: 1.1
SiteMapMadeSimple: 1.2.1
Gallery: 1.3.2
CGBlog: 1.4
AkismetCheck: 0.2.1
FormBuilder: 0.6.2
ScriptDeploy: 0.7.4
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Re: Idea Arts - finally CMSMS driven.

Post by r00ki3 »

Good job! You almost gave me the WOW-effect ;)
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Re: Idea Arts - finally CMSMS driven.

Post by uniqu3 »

Thx r00ki3, maybe you could outline what was missing for the WOW effect, so i can improve it  :)
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Ok...well...don't take it personal but see it as "positive criticism" ;)

The home page contains too much text in my opinion.
Also there's to much grey on the homepage, would be good to spice it up with some more matching colors - but hey...that's just a matter of taste!  ;D

Use some headings and put some 's in the "Uber mich" part.

The submenu on the page "Leistungen" takes a while to see that it is actually a clickable sub-menu. (Sorry...just pretending to be a dumb visitor, not a developer ;) )

On the portfolio page: put some logo's on there of the projects you worked on instead of the text url. People love to see visuals and hate it to read text for this purpose.

That's my 2 cents...

To be honest, I'm just jealous that I don't have the time and designer skills to make such a website ;)
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Post by uniqu3 »

thx again r00ki3.

I am aware of to much text in the homepage, but i wanted to keep the navigation simple, so placing for example testimonials to submenu or making submenus for the short blocks would cause the "click throught" effect. I will try to shorten it all together but for now it has some "SEO" use.

Regarding colors, you will not believe how much i tried to add some color variations on the start page but the more i played around the messier it got  :) but i will try again.

On "About me" page you are totally right, opening the page causes the "text overload" effect. Ill think of some funny headings and add some space  :)

Regarding the text links on Portfolio page, these will be removed anyway in closest future ass soon my customer projects are finished that can be showcased. These links are links to website i did working in another company and i do not want to represent it in some fancy way but yes you are right it does look odd.

The submenu on the "Leistungen" page, hmm i don't know how i could change it, maybe with bottom-border or so, but i definitely do not want background color on normal state. But good you mentioned it, i see i forgot to add active state on the submenu.

Thanks again for your input, i like "criticism" this is the only way you can improve your work.
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Re: Idea Arts - finally CMSMS driven.

Post by r00ki3 »

Good job!
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Re: Idea Arts - finally CMSMS driven.

Post by uniqu3 »

@r00ki3

i have followed your advice and did some changes:
- moved some text from start page
- added icons to blocks on start page and bold text for more color
- about me page has more spacing
- added borders to submenu in sidebar and active state, unfortunately i have no idea how to get current state in categories for news module/portfolio
- changed summary template on portfolio page, removed unordered list of past projects
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Post by sonictrip »

Hey, very nice site.

Whats the mod you're using on the home page which has 4 pages that scroll from right to left?

What mod are you using for the social buttons on the left side of the screen?

How do you make the Gallery mod do that nice blue mouseover effect with a link on the bottom and the zoom effect?

Very very nice, didnt think it was possible to make CMSMS look so professional! :)
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Post by uniqu3 »

Hi sonictrip,

thanks for your feedback.

The scrolling part on the startpage is driven by jQuery Cycle plugin http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/
you can also see how i used it in the free template BizBuzz http://www.i-arts.eu/bizbuzz/ for the news section.

For the social icons i am also using jQuery and unordered list containing icons as background which is absolutely positioned on the page.

The CSS:

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/* Social Navigation */
ul#socialNav {
	position: fixed;
	top: 250px;
	left: 0px;
	list-style: none;
	z-index: 100;
}
ul#socialNav li {
	width: 100px;
}
ul#socialNav li a {
	display: block;
	margin-left: -85px;
	margin-bottom: 2px;
	width: 100px;
	height: 20px;
	line-height: 20px;
	background-color: #c7c4bc;
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: 87px 50%;
	text-shadow: 0 -1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.25);
	padding: 2px 5px 2px 0;
	color: #fff;
	font-weight: bold;
	text-indent: 15px;
}
ul#socialNav .facebook a {
	background-image: url('http://img.ich-mach-das.at/facebook.png');
}
ul#socialNav .twitter a {
	background-image: url('http://img.ich-mach-das.at/twitter.png');
}
ul#socialNav .linkedin a {
	background-image: url('http://img.ich-mach-das.at/linkedin.png');
}
ul#socialNav .flickr a {
	background-image: url('http://img.ich-mach-das.at/flickr.png');
}
ul#socialNav .google a {
	background-image: url('http://img.ich-mach-das.at/buzz.png');
}
ul#socialNav .skype a {
	background-image: url('http://img.ich-mach-das.at/skype.png');
}
ul#socialNav .xing a {
	background-image: url('http://img.ich-mach-das.at/xing.png');
}
the jQuery

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 $(function() {
                
                $('#socialNav a').stop().animate({'marginLeft':'-85px'},1000);
                
                $('#socialNav > li').hover(
                    function () {
                        $('a',$(this)).stop().animate({'marginLeft':'-2px'},200);
                    },
                    function () {
                        $('a',$(this)).stop().animate({'marginLeft':'-85px'},200);
                    }
                );
            });
the HTML:

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      <ul id="socialNav"> 
            <li class="facebook"><a href="#" target="_blank" title="Facebook">Facebook</a></li> 
            <li class="twitter"><a href="#" target="_blank" title="Twitter">Twitter</a></li> 
            <li class="linkedin"><a href="#" target="_blank" title="LinkedIn">LinkedIn</a></li> 
            <li class="flickr"><a href="#" target="_blank" title="Flickr">Flickr</a></li> 
            <li class="google"><a href="#" target="_blank" title="Google">Google</a></li> 
            <li class="skype"><a href="#" title="Skype">Skype</a></li> 
            <li class="xing"><a href="#" target="_blank" title="Xing">Xing</a></li> 
        </ul> 
For the portfolio part i have used the News module, renamed to Portfolio and the overview with thumbnails is actually a summary template of news.
Images are being uploaded in through extra fields and resized with help of supersizer plugin by JeremyBass.
The hover effect is again being powered by jQuery look at this example http://papermashup.com/jquery-image-zoom-effect/ and some css.
Very very nice, didnt think it was possible to make CMSMS look so professional!
This is exactly the beauty of CMSMS and why i love it, you can turn any css+xhtml code into CMSMS, faster and easier then with any other CMS.
Last edited by uniqu3 on Thu Aug 19, 2010 6:16 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Post by sonictrip »

Brilliant, thank you soooo much uniqu3, amazing response time and very detailed indeedy!  ;D

Been wondering about those sliding things for a while now, suppose its time i looked into jQuery a bit more! Thanks again and keep up the great work!  ;)
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Post by moonoo »

Hey Uniqu3,

Just came accross this post while looking for Calatlog style plugins.. and noticed the link to the site!

Great work.. had a brief look at the BizBuzz theme too. amazing stuff!

Quick question. The cycling elements on the home page.. where in the CMS are you controlling these? i.e are they randomly picked from a section/ sub section of content or hard coded?

Just looking at a way of creating a sub section for projects and being able to randomly display a portion of them on the front end.. but ideally do not want to hard code/repeat the insertion of project entries... this CMS will be handed over to editors who don't really want to mess with this stuff.

Any pointers on this?
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Post by uniqu3 »

Hi moonoo

on ich-mach-das.at the cycling elements in the header are hard coded with if condition so i can control it per page if needed.
On i-arts.eu/bizbuzz i used Gallery module for header images and cycling news simple summary template with jquery cycle plugin.

If you need something to display your latest projects you don't have to hardcode anything there are few modules that can be used or abused for this like Products, News, CGBlog, Gallery depends on what exactly you want to display, if you need to display content summary from some page you can use ContentDump or CGSimpleSmarty.
For my portfolio page i used news module few custom fields and supersizer plugin to autoresize thumb images for each summary template as needed so i don' have to upload 5 images just because of different image size.
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Post by moonoo »

News module sounds like a good one actually!

Was looking at Cataloger as well.. as that has a catalog item and catalog page template, plus it can do a featured tag.. which means any new projects added by users is automatically used in the featured tag that I can place on the home page... not as hot on script side of stuff right now.. but happy to fiddle and I think I know what I want...

Do you think it's possible to include video links in a drop down inside news summary template? i.e GBFilePicker that points to a video folder or something? trying to think how to create a sort of universal content post type for editors to the site to be able to seamlessly upload content to showcase items.

ContentDump sounds like a really useful feature I might look into this one as well!
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Re: Idea Arts - finally CMSMS driven.

Post by moonoo »

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 {if $field->type == 'file'}
          <img src="{$entry->file_location}/{$field->value}"/>
        {else}
          {$field->name}: {eval var=$field->value}
        {/if}
Is there a tag for detecting file extension from within News Summary template?

i.e

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{if $field->type->exc =='flv'}

Place swf/javascript embed code here..

{elseif $field->type->exc =='mp4'}

QT embed

{/if}

Where would be best place to check if theres a smarty var for that?
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Re: Idea Arts - finally CMSMS driven.

Post by uniqu3 »

I don't know about detecting file extensions, never had a need for it but in news or products or blog modules you can set predefined fields like FLV, MP4...
And in your template (news for example) you simply use something like

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{if isset($entry->fieldsbyname.FLV)}
<!-- code for player or something and src="{$entry->fieldsbyname.FLV->value}"
-->{/if}
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