Ideas for new site

[Martz]

Hi,

I'm hoping to get some feedback from any gurus who could advise me on the best way to go about implementing a client web site.

I'd like to reuse/expand any existing modules where possible - I don't want to reinvent the wheel.

The scenario

The quick version:

I need for clients to be able to login to a website (preferably CMSMS powered) and edit a page within certain limitations. This will include being able to drop a couple of images into the page, change the colour of the text and positioning of certain elements. etc.

The long/detailed version

I have a company that sells advertising by providing a free plasma screen TV that is installed in a public area, such as a waiting room.

At the moment the company designs the adverts that run on it in flash swf and they are uploaded to the plasmas screen/player via ISDN or the internet. The company would like to be able to let their clients login to a web site, edit their own content, and in turn it is pushed or pulled through to the plasma screen and displayed.

This content does not need to be displayed on the actual website, it just provides an interface for the client to do it rather than depending on the companies designers to knock it up in flash.

The push/pulling part isn't a problem to implement. What I'd like to do is build upon CMSMS to integrate all of this functionality.

Since they rarely use any animation in these adverts, HTML/CSS would be fine to use.

Does anyone have any suggestions for existing modules/code that I could reuse?

• Login system - either frontendusers or creating editor/contributor style permissions
• Editing text within certain constraints (must always fit on a 1024*600 display or similar)

I'm considering taking the AJAX approach to this, by letting them edit a template page - very similar to what you might do in a new Powerpoint presentation - click the header text and edit, change colour etc.

A lot of this is possible already, I'm just looking for some ideas on the best way to implement it. As it stands at the moment I might make the client section of the site completely independant from CMSMS, which isn't good for the CMSMS users since none of the changes/modules will be given back.

Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

Martin

[tsw]

At the moment the company designs the adverts that run on it in flash swf and they are uploaded to the plasmas screen/player via ISDN or the internet. The company would like to be able to let their clients login to a web site, edit their own content, and in turn it is pushed or pulled through to the plasma screen and displayed.

Interesting project

frontendusers + customcontent + uploads module would handle some parts, and as events will be available in 1.0 you could have almost instant upload for the screen when user uploads something.

editing part could be tricky but maybe fckeditor could be restricted to certain width x height ? or offer a link to a gpl based swf editor (dont know if any exists though)

[Martz]

Thanks for your comments.

From the meeting with the clients last night, the best way to approach this will be via a new module I need to make. This will allow a template  layout to be edited, with predefined areas of images/text/etc. Clicking the images will popup a dialogue to select a new image, or to upload and resize one of their own. Clicking text will allow them to edit it, which would be a text area with the fskeditor or similar I'm thinking.

The flash part of things isn't too bad, I found out that they use a player which can handle flash and swf files, they are just queued up and the playlist is sent out to the remote devices.

I'll take a look at your recommendations, thanks!

[Dr.CSS]

have you seen this thread...

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 672.0.html