We have just started to dive into the world of Joomla for all the back end features it can provide. In particular we needed a way to be able to set up a online booking system for a small hotel. We have purchased the Joomla action from Actions world and it seems to be promising.
Can anyone enlighten us as to how we could use freeway to develop the more traditional pages in freeway than get the code into Joomla? We were thinking that we could use the html module in Joomla to be the body part of the page. If we were going to do this it seems that we would need a way to only output the HTML in the body tag and all the CSS and Javascrip would be referenced externally.
We are new to this method of development and would appreciate any input someone may have.
you can use a free joomla iframe plugin or purchase one of the more
fully featured joomla iframe plugins to display your freeway pages in
content.
For a hotel booking system look into a joomla component such as
resource booking pro - http://resourcebookingpro.com.
On Jul 1, 2011, at 11:06 PM, TeamSDA wrote:
Hi All,
We have just started to dive into the world of Joomla for all the
back end features it can provide. In particular we needed a way to
be able to set up a online booking system for a small hotel. We
have purchased the Joomla action from Actions world and it seems to
be promising.
Can anyone enlighten us as to how we could use freeway to develop
the more traditional pages in freeway than get the code into
Joomla? We were thinking that we could use the html module in
Joomla to be the body part of the page. If we were going to do this
it seems that we would need a way to only output the HTML in the
body tag and all the CSS and Javascrip would be referenced externally.
We are new to this method of development and would appreciate any
input someone may have.
Right, but most people here who need a CMS want to work the other way
around – use Freeway to lay out the way all pages look, and have
Joomla! fill in the blanks for them. Considerably different prospect
in every way.
Walter
On Jul 3, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Ginger Garnitz wrote:
you can use a free joomla iframe plugin or purchase one of the more
fully featured joomla iframe plugins to display your freeway pages
in content.
the question was how to display an externally created page within a
joomla site. Otherwise you’ could just design a joomla template in
freeway.
On Jul 3, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
Right, but most people here who need a CMS want to work the other
way around – use Freeway to lay out the way all pages look, and
have Joomla! fill in the blanks for them. Considerably different
prospect in every way.
Walter
On Jul 3, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Ginger Garnitz wrote:
you can use a free joomla iframe plugin or purchase one of the
more fully featured joomla iframe plugins to display your freeway
pages in content.
I will look into joomla - but how do you add joomla to your freeway site?
On Jul 3, 2011, at 6:37 PM, Ginger Garnitz wrote:
the question was how to display an externally created page within a joomla site. Otherwise you’ could just design a joomla template in freeway.
On Jul 3, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
Right, but most people here who need a CMS want to work the other way around – use Freeway to lay out the way all pages look, and have Joomla! fill in the blanks for them. Considerably different prospect in every way.
Walter
On Jul 3, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Ginger Garnitz wrote:
you can use a free joomla iframe plugin or purchase one of the more fully featured joomla iframe plugins to display your freeway pages in content.
If you have a freeway site you want to add joomla to you can install
joomla in a folder in the site directory (most hosts have fantastico
or simple scripts functions to do this in your cpanel) , create a
freeway joomla template to match your main site install and use it
for the pages you need CMS for. add menu items for the joomla pages
to your main site and menu links to the main site on the joomla side.
On Jul 3, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Julie Maxwell Allen wrote:
so, here is the question…
I will look into joomla - but how do you add joomla to your freeway
site?
On Jul 3, 2011, at 6:37 PM, Ginger Garnitz wrote:
the question was how to display an externally created page within
a joomla site. Otherwise you’ could just design a joomla template
in freeway.
On Jul 3, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
Right, but most people here who need a CMS want to work the other
way around – use Freeway to lay out the way all pages look, and
have Joomla! fill in the blanks for them. Considerably different
prospect in every way.
Walter
On Jul 3, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Ginger Garnitz wrote:
you can use a free joomla iframe plugin or purchase one of the
more fully featured joomla iframe plugins to display your
freeway pages in content.
The approach we are considering is to use freeway for layout and code generation, first to build the Joomla templet and second our idea was to use one of Joomla’s modules to populate a body area of the page that is perhaps more of a traditional static page. We would again use Freeway to build the contend and generate the code. Walt I see you have added templet helper, Would I be correct in the assumption that this suite of actions is tailored around this general topic.
Another thing we have been run into is the inability to push CSS and Javascript 100% out of the page. This appears to be affecting our Joomla project as well as our desire to get the CSS and Javascript off our 100% freeway built sites. Reason for this need in Joomla is the above mentioned HTML module for a page that would be static and the on our Freeway sites, having the CSS and Javascript in the upper part of the page seems to lesson our SEO.
I have used two different modules in Joomla! to place static content in the main content area. First is called StaticXT, and that let’s you insert a page fragment within the main content area. I believe it’s free. For that one you would need either TemplateHelper or PHP Make Insert Page to strip off the outer shell of code. The other is the normal Joomla! iframe plugin. I forget what it’s called exactly. For that one you do not want to modify the page at all.
In either case, you will need to use the Remote Resources Action or some post-processing in a text editor to make the image paths conform to Joomla!'s directory layout.
Thank you for the input. Does the Joomla iFrame module simply putty an iFrame into the Joomla page. Only asking as we try to avoid iFrames as I don’t believe they do anything for SEO?
Yes, and you’re correct, they are an SEO black hole. StaticXT merges
the content of your static page with any other HTML generated by
Joomla!, and presents a united front to the various bots reading your
site. If you have also turned on the “friendly URL” features in
Joomla!, you’re pretty well covered on the SEO front. Each page that
you edit in the admin interface (back-end, in Joomla! parlance) has a
huge set of meta tag options available. And depending on the template
you choose, the output code is usually fairly terse. (Older templates
are table-based, and thus fairly awful, SEO-wise.)
Walter
On Jul 5, 2011, at 12:10 PM, TeamSDA wrote:
Hi Walter,
Thank you for the input. Does the Joomla iFrame module simply putty
an iFrame into the Joomla page. Only asking as we try to avoid
iFrames as I don’t believe they do anything for SEO?
I have never tried to build a Joomla! template in Freeway, but Paul
Dunning could tell you more accurately if the various “slots” are
added into the resulting page template when using his Actions.
If you open up a generic template (one of the templates included with
the basic package would be good for this) using a text editor, you
will probably see places where meta tags and other head content are
“played back” within the context of the template code. Look for things
in the section of the page that look like <?php echo $mainframe-
head_content; ?> or something like that (haven’t done this in a long
time, not sure what they call anything now).
Walter
On Jul 5, 2011, at 12:31 PM, TeamSDA wrote:
What about if we build the templet in Freeway, will SEO carry over?
Things lit title meta tags, H1 tags and such.
Got it, and yes we have purchased Paul’s action. Our idea was to use his action for the shell templet and some of the other actions you mentioned earlier to create the parts that are unique to our specific need.
In joomla you set the global metatags, etc in the site configuration
in the back end and each page’s metatags when you add content. You
turn on the joomla SEO feature or use on of the 3rd party SEO
extensions.
Joomla is a slightly different approach - you don’t actually add a
new page and upload it for each new page of content. you login, add
your new content in an “article”, assign it to a category and menu
and that automatically creates the page using your template(s).
On Jul 5, 2011, at 9:31 AM, TeamSDA wrote:
What about if we build the templet in Freeway, will SEO carry over?
Things lit title meta tags, H1 tags and such.
Hello everybody ! I have one question. Can I change the fields of search form in Joomla with Freeway ? The text is ok but I would change the text field of the box itself (background color, size, area border, corner …)
I tried this action Form Element CSS action, but that does not work on Joomla search form …