[Pro] FW7, Blogging & PulsePro oh my...

I’m building my first FW7 site and my first with PulsePro CMS. It should be a pretty straightforward & simple site, but I have a few questions.

  1. There is a lot of extra space after my footer. In FW 5.5, there wasn’t much “white space” after my last div, but there is now and I’m not sure why. I created a “footer wrapper” and placed a line to give a visual for the final element on the page.

  2. On my blog page, this footer is not moving down the page the way it should. I’d love to have it “stick” to the bottom, but I’ve never figured out how to do that bit of magic.

  3. On my blog page, there are two entries that are samples from PulsePro. They look okay on the laptop and tablet, but on my iPhone, the photos from those entries seem to be setting the width of the page and the text is way too skinny.

  4. Does anyone happen to know how to change the date on the blog entries? I realize this is a Pulse question, but I’d love to create some retroactive entries to get my client started.

  5. Any tips on the in-line layout and/or responsive design welcome. I’m still trying to get this figured out!

Thanks!!!

Doty

http://www.durangoing.com


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Couple of things I see Doty

1st - your header pic is huge and slow to load at nearly 3/4Mb

2 - the following code gives your page a min-height of 200px

#pagewrapper.f-ms {
position: absolute;
left: 0px;
top: 0px;
width: 100%;
min-height: 2000px;
z-index: 1;
}

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a min-height of 200px

Of course that should read - a min-height of 2000px

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And on the blog page try adding the following code in Page>html Markup in the before section

<style type="text/css">
div.blog-content img {
width: 100%;
}
</style>

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Excellent, Dave! Thank you!

The header pic is just a placeholder, but it’s good to get the size down. I’ve done that. You fixed the width problem with the blog page. And I think I might have set the min page height inadvertently whilst following along with the FW7 video!

Now I just need to figure out how my client can edit the date on old blog posts and come up with an index of old blog posts. I don’t see that option w/ the available Pulse blocks. Am I missing it?

Thanks again!

Doty


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how my client can edit the date on old blog posts and come up with an index of old blog posts.

Dont think that you can directly as I suspect that these are Date/Time stamped when they are created.

However you may well be able to edit the Flat File where this info is stored within Pulse itself.

If I get a minute i will have a look.

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Any reason why you are not using the Responsive features of the CSS menu action?

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Umm… I’m trying to use the responsive features of the CSS menu action… But I’m having troubles!

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As far as editing the Blog goes have a look on the server for

/pulsepro/data/blog/blogfile.txt

That text file contains the contents of each Blog post so you could download it, edit it and stick it back on the server.

I’m trying to use the responsive features of the CSS menu action…. But I’m having troubles!

Expand.

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Can I use the responsive features without showing the icon at the breakpoint? I’ve moved the menu around for the smaller screen sizes, but it’s not behaving the way I’d like.

I’ll try looking at that blog file. It’s just for this first go around, as future uploads will be done by the client.

Thanks.

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without showing the icon at the breakpoint?

Why wouldn’t you want to show a mobile friendly icon? You can use your own if you would prefer.

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With only four pages, it reads just fine even on my old (small) iPhone screen. For my older clients, the mobile icon is confusing and they feel better seeing the menu bar they’re used to. When the menu bar goes away they don’t know “how” to get it back. If this was a large site, I wouldn’t have an option, but with only four pages I think it fits okay.

The thing that’s bothering me is it doesn’t adjust smoothly (like the text does) as I make the screen smaller. I have to “hit” the breakpoint for it to move and until I hit that point, it doesn’t flex as I had hoped it would. It’s probably a limitation with it being positioned on the right side.

Does that make sense?

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The thing that’s bothering me is it doesn’t adjust smoothly (like the text does) as I make the screen smaller.

But remember your visitors aren’t resizing their Browser windows. They are coming to your page AT the breakpoint so they don’t see the ‘change’ they just see the effect.

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And I know you wanted to edit the Dates on the Blog posts but I didn’t know you wanted to time travel too!

Rainbow Selfie
Oct 01, 2014

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Yep! I remember Dave! I resize my windows all the time, but I know most people don’t. Editing the text file for the blog dates worked great! Thanks for that. The guys at Pulse were very responsive to my questions. But they did tell me that they don’t have an index or tagging feature for blogs the way blogger or other dedicating blogging engines have. Hopefully this will be okay!

Thanks again!

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Whoops! Rainbow selfie fixed! Thanks!


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Ok. I thought I was done, then I decided to upload a few pics. They are wider than the the 320 iPhone. They look fine at the tablet and computer breakpoints, but not at the 320 phone. It’s messing up my banner pic at the top. How are you guys dealing with this? 320 isn’t the widest pic we can use is it? Please say no!

Thanks!

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Sorry, the offending pages are: http://durangoing.com/ and http://durangoing.com/about.html


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Ok, I have it fixed. I changed to pics on the iphone break to fixed % and changed it to 320 wide. It’s going to take me a while to get used to FW7!

I do have a large gap between the text and the picture at the bottom of http://durangoing.com/about.html that I can’t account for on the iphone breakpoint of 320. It looks fine on the homepage and I did it the same way.


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Ugh… It’s an inline box problem! Now I just need to figure out which “container” to put it in.


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