From what I have read about Pulse CMS, it seems like it is exactly what I am looking for to allow a client to edit some basic areas of his website.
It seems pretty straightforward and easy to use, but I can’t get started because I cannot for the life of me figure out how to upload the “Pulse” folder to my server, which is how PulseCMS.com says is how you “install” it.
I tried using my the file manager in the cpanel section for my server, but it only allows me to upload single files.
I use Cyberduck to upload the Pulse folder, very easy and straight forward, you will have to upload the config.php file seperately anyway. This is the file you will have changed the password from the default - if you wish. For this I use Taco (free).
For more long standing and larger sites I tend not to use freeways built in FTP, otherwise its fine.
Cyberduck worked great (although it did take a little while tp find a version that worked with MAC 10.4) But thanks for the help guys!
Also, for any other newbies learning Pulse for the first time, I don’t know if this is the same for everyone, but I was not able to edit the config.php file on my computer. I had to edit it in my cpanel after it was uploaded.
Good Luck all! Once again FreewayTalk saves the day.
Also, for any other newbies learning Pulse for the first time, I don’t know if this is the same for everyone, but I was not able to edit the config.php file on my computer. I had to edit it in my cpanel after it was uploaded.
As long as you use a plain text editor, such as TextWrangler (also free), you should not have a problem. But you must use a plain text editor.
You can add a Tag style in FW to target a Pulse container on a FW page - but it will not allow you to apply more than 1 style to any particular container that way.
When you create the Pulse container on your FW page it will be given a name in the inspector - something like Item4
Change this to something meaningful and unique for that page like pulseheader for a Pulse managed headline.
In the styles palette create a new style. In the Tag box type #pulseheader then Tab into the next box and delete whatever FW has added for you. Add whatever font and styling options you want then OK the dialogue but first check that FW didn’t add back that info that you deleted before.
Now when you publish your site any container called pulseheader (on any page) will be styled that way but for it to work 100% make sure you do NOT add any styling in the Pulse editor.
Apply your chosen text style to the div/html item in which your Pulse markup is placed. Use the inspector panel and then click on the T in a circle symbol, then + on the div name.
Another question I am hoping someone will be able to help me out with. This one pertains to the image gallery feature with Pulse CMS.
I uploaded photos, but when I preview through the pulse editor or view the page on my site that I inserted the markup item, I only see tiny blue “?” icons instead of any pictures. In the pulse editor, I can see the pictures as thumbnails, and if you click the magnify icon, the pictures come up. It is when I hit the preview button that the “?” icons pop up.
Anyone know what I could be doing wrong? Do you paste the generated code in a markup item the same way you do it for the blocks? I changed the page to .php instead of .html so that can’t be it. But since it isn’t working in the pulse editor in addition to my own site, it has to be something else.
It sounds like you have the basic path to the images set wrong
somewhere. The question mark icon means that the path is being set to
something, but the image isn’t there. Try Control-clicking on the
missing image and see what the path is being set to. Then see if you
can work out where the files are actually being saved on your server
and reconcile the two.
Walter
On Jul 6, 2010, at 3:50 PM, Peter Wlazlo wrote:
Another question I am hoping someone will be able to help me out
with. This one pertains to the image gallery feature with Pulse CMS.
I uploaded photos, but when I preview through the pulse editor or
view the page on my site that I inserted the markup item, I only see
tiny blue “?” icons instead of any pictures. In the pulse editor, I
can see the pictures as thumbnails, and if you click the magnify
icon, the pictures come up. It is when I hit the preview button
that the “?” icons pop up.
Anyone know what I could be doing wrong? Do you paste the generated
code in a markup item the same way you do it for the blocks? I
changed the page to .php instead of .html so that can’t be it. But
since it isn’t working in the pulse editor in addition to my own
site, it has to be something else.
Does anyone know if it is possible to change the size of the thumbnail pictures with pulse? Someone posted in the Pulse CMS forum that they were able to do this by editing the includes/thumbs.phg file and changed it to:
[code]
$max_width = 150;
$max_height = 150;
[code]
I tried doing the same, but the size of the thumbnails do not appear to change at all when I load the site.
Try uploading an image again and see if the new thumbnail is the new
size. I believe these dimensions come into play when the file is
uploaded, because that would be the moment that the image is resized.
Walter
On Jul 10, 2010, at 9:05 AM, Peter Wlazlo wrote:
I tried doing the same, but the size of the thumbnails do not appear
to change at all when I load the site.