Editor for CSS and Templates. This is an important feature!!
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:03 pm
Hi!
I joined CMSMS since some week and i think it's really good... but developing my first website based on CMSMS i realized that there is a really big boring obstacle that SLOW DOWN significatively the development. The problem is the CSS and TEMPLATE editor!
I think just you simply cannot use a banal and featureless TEXTAREA to edit CSS and HTML templates! Sure i say NO to WISYWIG but i think that something as to be able to:
- Press the TAB to indent the code
- Colorize the code
- [optional] show fast link to insert existing tags in the code without write manually it
***SHOULD*** be absolutely implemented and as soon as possible.
I think that the speed of setting up a site with a CMS is the MAIN feature that made CMS (in general) so useful!
CMSMS is really quick and smart and it is ideal for small-medium website as you can setup it in minutes... but effectively if you want to setup a custom layout it oblige you
- to open an EXTERNAL text editor (also non-WISYWIG and not visual editor)
- to test the layout in a fake html and css file in local
- to re-edit the CSS and HTML replacing urls, path and some other with TAGS etc...
- upload images and css linked material trough online FILE MANAGER
- to submit modification only online (so loosing the useful "backside of the medal" of having a local fake html+css that could be VERSIONED on svn or other)
and ALL THIS could not be done IN MINUTES!! Doing this you loose much more time.
I think that all this could be done using a DE-FEATURED wisywig editor that offer the possibility to extract the TEXT (and not the HTML) inserted (if i remember correctly, trought js api, fck editor had a similar feature)
*** I'M ABSOLUTELY ADVERSE to have a full wisywig editor for the template editor. i don't want to have a preview of the website in live! I'm in favout of the webmaster know-how i want to have simply a better CODE editor ***
Sorry for my really poor english. I hope that this topic will be a good start to improve CMSMS.
I joined CMSMS since some week and i think it's really good... but developing my first website based on CMSMS i realized that there is a really big boring obstacle that SLOW DOWN significatively the development. The problem is the CSS and TEMPLATE editor!
I think just you simply cannot use a banal and featureless TEXTAREA to edit CSS and HTML templates! Sure i say NO to WISYWIG but i think that something as to be able to:
- Press the TAB to indent the code
- Colorize the code
- [optional] show fast link to insert existing tags in the code without write manually it
***SHOULD*** be absolutely implemented and as soon as possible.
I think that the speed of setting up a site with a CMS is the MAIN feature that made CMS (in general) so useful!
CMSMS is really quick and smart and it is ideal for small-medium website as you can setup it in minutes... but effectively if you want to setup a custom layout it oblige you
- to open an EXTERNAL text editor (also non-WISYWIG and not visual editor)
- to test the layout in a fake html and css file in local
- to re-edit the CSS and HTML replacing urls, path and some other with TAGS etc...
- upload images and css linked material trough online FILE MANAGER
- to submit modification only online (so loosing the useful "backside of the medal" of having a local fake html+css that could be VERSIONED on svn or other)
and ALL THIS could not be done IN MINUTES!! Doing this you loose much more time.
I think that all this could be done using a DE-FEATURED wisywig editor that offer the possibility to extract the TEXT (and not the HTML) inserted (if i remember correctly, trought js api, fck editor had a similar feature)
*** I'M ABSOLUTELY ADVERSE to have a full wisywig editor for the template editor. i don't want to have a preview of the website in live! I'm in favout of the webmaster know-how i want to have simply a better CODE editor ***
Sorry for my really poor english. I hope that this topic will be a good start to improve CMSMS.