Any layout suggestions for weird legacy content?

[msboyd]

Hi all --

We're moving a lot of legacy content and naturally there are a few sites that don't fit well within CMS Made Simple, although they have been few and far between.  We are trying to avoid re-designing them wherever possible and prefer to just have a header/footer wrapper on most for the time being, but this page with strange (and ugly) mouseovers is proving difficult to move over.

Any suggestions for dealing with these mouseovers?  Will our editor really need to create a separate page for each one, or is there a quic and dirty workaround?

Many thanks!
Lisa

[savagekabbage]

Hello,

Please don't take this personally when I say this, but you're really better off coding this page from scratch.  The page layout is awful, and the javascript mouseovers don't work correctly in Mozilla Firefox, which is one of the most popular browsers.

That said, this site could easily be coded within the CMS. 

[msboyd]

Oh, I know it's awful as it is -- we inherited the code from several years ago.  I'm a Firefox user myself and see the broken mouseovers, but can't think of a good way to re-code it in CMS without creating many subpages for the rollovers.  I'm sure there's something obvious I'm overlooking or not thinking of!

[savagekabbage]

Oh, I know it's awful as it is -- we inherited the code from several years ago.  I'm a Firefox user myself and see the broken mouseovers, but can't think of a good way to re-code it in CMS without creating many subpages for the rollovers.  I'm sure there's something obvious I'm overlooking or not thinking of!

Ok, here's what I would do if I were you and wanted to put this site into CMSMS.

1 - Create a template with the two cow pictures, and the {content} block under them. Also utilize CMS's next and previous selflinks.
2 - Create each subpage with the correct descriptions (under the cows).
3 - Recode and assign the rollovers description in the metadata section of each content page.  This is the tricky part, but it could be done with smarty vars, javascript, etc etc. 

Or you could just have a content block for each number, but that's probably too many content blocks :-p

[msboyd]

Thanks, good ideas!

[Dr.CSS]

This is just basic image mapping with title data appearing in the same place, personally I'd have them show up in the content with #1 as a default shown first element...