I am a web designer and I usually don't develop CMS related site that have a ton off features. I am currently developing a website and I had some questions I was hoping to get answered.
I basically need user management (FrontEndUsers) and i want to be able to install the login and a personalized bottom bar (that appears once logged in) on an existing webpage, is there a way to add features from the cmsms to a webpage that is already made?
There will be news type pages but these can be made with an cmsms generated page.
Any help and suggestions are appreciated, thank you for your help!
Some help for a new cmsms user?
Re: Some help for a new cmsms user?
You are better off putting the whole site in CMSMS instead of trying to inject some part of CMSMS into a flat file page...
Re: Some help for a new cmsms user?
I thought that would be the case, the problem I have is that anything I made with in cmsms was not liked by the client so I had to develop the site independently from a cms. Part of that is that developing a site within the cmsms is a bit foreign to me, I guess I have been doing things the old fashioned way too long and its hard to adjust.
Re: Some help for a new cmsms user?
Is it working in the CMSMS admin that they don't like or is it the look/functionality of the site built in CMSMS they don't like?...
Re: Some help for a new cmsms user?
I think most of it is just my limited knowledge preventing me from making the site to there specifications in cmsms. I have started to make a template (the video here helped a lot for making a template from an existing site http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/uploads/me ... colate.htm as I learn quickly from videos )
but getting some of the javascript and such may take me a bit, luckily (or not so much maybe) they want a redesign anyway. and I have to add a slideshow, custom text javascript message and user management with personalization (I think cmsms can do most of the stuff they are requiring)
thank you for the quick response to the thread. I got the javascript all working now. I just need to figure out how to import my current menu and embed a very large (almost full page) slider module.
but getting some of the javascript and such may take me a bit, luckily (or not so much maybe) they want a redesign anyway. and I have to add a slideshow, custom text javascript message and user management with personalization (I think cmsms can do most of the stuff they are requiring)
thank you for the quick response to the thread. I got the javascript all working now. I just need to figure out how to import my current menu and embed a very large (almost full page) slider module.
Re: Some help for a new cmsms user?
Most menus are just UL LI and all CMSMS menu templates make those, the biggest problem is getting the CSS to work for your particular menu, what I do...
Render the menu on a page, existing one flat file or whatever, look at the UL LI and the CSS driving it...
Look at some of the menus CMSMS has, drop down, flyout, collapsed on left, once I find one that does the same thing, like a horizontal drop menu, I look at the rendered page source to see what classes it has like parent, menuactive, etc. then look at the CSS to see what I need to change to make it look/work like the original, some have a.active instead of a.menuactive, make changes where needed...
For whole page slides you may need to be a bit more explicit as there are many scripts out there to do slides, look at the Album link in my signature, some even to full browser window slides...
Render the menu on a page, existing one flat file or whatever, look at the UL LI and the CSS driving it...
Look at some of the menus CMSMS has, drop down, flyout, collapsed on left, once I find one that does the same thing, like a horizontal drop menu, I look at the rendered page source to see what classes it has like parent, menuactive, etc. then look at the CSS to see what I need to change to make it look/work like the original, some have a.active instead of a.menuactive, make changes where needed...
For whole page slides you may need to be a bit more explicit as there are many scripts out there to do slides, look at the Album link in my signature, some even to full browser window slides...
Re: Some help for a new cmsms user?
I have made some good progress. I know its probably frowned upon but I have used several literal tags to get some of the parts working how they need to.
Now I have a few new hurdles to figure out
1. on the front end user I need to let users create a username instead of using the email (so I can add personalization such as "hi, username")
2. I need to have a bar appear attached to the bottom of all pages once a user is logged in at the bottom
I am sure there will be more later but these are the next important parts I need to figure out.
Now I have a few new hurdles to figure out
1. on the front end user I need to let users create a username instead of using the email (so I can add personalization such as "hi, username")
2. I need to have a bar appear attached to the bottom of all pages once a user is logged in at the bottom
I am sure there will be more later but these are the next important parts I need to figure out.
Re: Some help for a new cmsms user?
There is a setting in FEU for using a name instead of email as username, then you can use it in the Hello (username), the part at the bottom would need Custom content to hide unless logged in...
