Having looked at and poked about various cms options for some time I finally have a site to apply it to.
Opted and took the opportunity to download and buy webyep and relevant actions.
Everything is fine, added a CKEditor for rich text etc.
BUT a major stumbling block is that I cannot with the various editors upload images to the server or to be more precise my client won’t be able to. The various plugins for uploading using the editors are quite frankly a rip off. Sneakily hidden away so you don’t immediately notice.
The webyep ‘image’ insert might do in conjunction with lightbox to show the full image but integration is ridiculously obscure with the manual being very lax on how to do it. I’m not impressed with the manual.
My client is a jeweler who would like to add images that will change over time themselves.
Anyone any ideas on best way forward with this ? How do others get clients to use images ?
I might consider using Pulse as it allows for uploading of images albeit small ones.
Hi Seoras,
I’m not completely familiar with WebYep as I’ve not used it myself for
anything other than test projects but it strikes me that if you are
having problems uploading images through the CMS then use a service
like Flickr (http://www.flickr.com). Not only will your client be able
to host his jewelry photographs on their site and embed them directly
into his own site by simply copying the URL but the jewelry will also
get greater exposure as well from people finding and commenting on the
images on Flickr.
For example; http://www.flickr.com/photos/elsakawai/35341834/in/set-72057594119282694/
Regards,
Tim.
On 31 Mar 2010, at 21:06, seoras wrote:
Anyone any ideas on best way forward with this ? How do others get
clients to use images ?
I believe I heard from Max, correct me if I’m wrong Max, that the team that makes WebYep was building an upload feature for CKEditor to allow image placement. I don’t believe it was released in the last update that recently came out, but I had heard from Max that they were working on getting that implemented into a future update.
Which looks like an open source FileManager for CKEditor ~ I’m going to have a look at hooking it up when I get a moment free.
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David
On 31 Mar 2010, at 21:06, seoras wrote:
BUTEverything is fine, added a CKEditor for rich text etc.
BUT a major stumbling block is that I cannot with the various editors upload images to the server or to be more precise my client won’t be able to. The various plugins for uploading using the editors are quite frankly a rip off. Sneakily hidden away so you don’t immediately notice.
Hi Seoras
I have just seen this thread and initially I was a bit shocked.
Why didn’t you contact me if you were having problems with loops and images… I am more than happy to give you examples or even look at your freeway artwork. As far as the manual then all I can do is apologies if it hasn’t covered the image and loop areas in enough detail, but again I am more than happy to elaborate those sections. The image upload feature is an area that can be tackled with three actions: webyep own image and gallery actions and of course with a richtext editor such as TinyMCE, FCKeditor, and CKeditor… and yes the official plugins have a cost associated with them. There are different plugins that can be used with these editors and these vary from free to many pounds. ALthough I haven’t tested most of them so cannot really advise on the best one for your situation.
Please come back to me if you still need some help
kindest regards max
After messing with CK Editor over the weekend, The free FileManager for CK Editor at http://labs.corefive.com/Projects/FileManager/ won’t work with WebYep unless WebYep make specific code provision for it.
However FCKEditor 2.6.6 does have a FileManager for FCKEditor included with it in the download, and with a quick change on a line of code in the FCKEditor > Filemanager > connectors > php this does enable FCKEditor to have file uploads for the client. The WebYep code has made specific provision for it.
FCKEditor is not quite as nice looking, but at least it works including file upload with no extra fee if you’re on a tight budget.
Regarding the stylesheets for CKEditor and FCKEditor, WebYep is coded to look as your Freeway page style sheet (inspect the F/CKEditor page from WebYep). In FCKEditor and CKEditor
you have a p > H1 > H6 styles dropdown. Just style those (keep exactly the same style name) in your Freeway Style sheet and it all works. And the FCKEditor edit window reflects the styles on your Freeway page.
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David
On 24 Jun 2010, at 09:24, Dan J wrote:
I too will take a look at this as CKEditor is nice, it’s either the stylesheets don’t stick or I can’t upload anything.