Hi All,
Thought you might be interested.
I just popped along to Pulse cms http://www.pulsecms.com/ and noticed they’ve a new pro version and have updated their free option.
With the Pro version you can create a very simple and basic Blog, which might be all thats required for some sites, etc.
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Yep I saw that a few days ago, looks perfect for basic blog or news page.
Marcel
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Someone correct me if I am wrong but did the Free version not used to have the ability to specify fonts whereas the ‘updated’ version doesn’t appear to have that facility. I updated without checking feature lists - not that there are any listed on the Pulse website.
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DeltaDave,
Pulse has never offered the ability to change fonts. Most CMS systems don’t either (Wordpress for example).
The reason is that CMS systems are for editing content, not style. Also you dont want you clients messing around with type setting after you have designed a site with a unified font.
What Pulse does allow is you to change the class of font as in
However, if you really need to override you sites design and change the font, then you can get the full version of CKeditor from ckeditor.com. Just replace the whole folder inside of Pulse.
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Pulse has never offered the ability to change fonts. Most CMS systems don’t either (Wordpress for example).
No I have to correct you on that one because I reverted back to my previous version to check (1.1.7) and indeed there are many more editing options available.
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Sorry Mark - I didn’t read your sig at the bottom of that post.
Indeed it may be that I installed the full version of CKeditor but I certainly think that I would have remembered that.
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I certainly think that I would have remembered that.
But then again - as one gets beyond a certain age…
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Hi David,
You also might have edited the config.js file. That is another way to make ckeditor show all the bells and whistles. Either way, it comes with a minimal version of ckeditor, but its easy enough to replace with the full version.
I might do a blog post more about this soon so people can learn how to tweak the editor to their liking.
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I might do a blog post more about this soon so people can learn how to tweak the editor to their liking.
That would be good Mark, also any tutorials using Pulse in conjunction with Freeway would I’m sure go down well.
I think Pulse is a simple and very smart cms solution, well done.
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That would be good Mark, also any tutorials using Pulse in conjunction with Freeway would I’m sure go down well. I think Pulse is a simple and very smart cms solution, well done
I agree seoras. I have all the options enabled I think but maybe there is a way to customise it for certain uses with selected options available.
As you say there are times when you don’t want to hand over too much control in case the Client/User blows your site to bits.
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I like Pulse and think it has great potential - very clean and hope it can be kept that way (…ish!)
It’s a shame that the full CK Editor has such a massive load - it’s 6mb+ from what I can remember. I assume if you can switch from one CK to another, then you could also use TinyMCE instead?
I think I already suggested to Mark direct at his site that some sort of hierarchical facility would be useful (ability to create sub-folders and put ‘blocks’ in them).
But by far the biggest omission from nearly every CMS I come across is the inability to handle internal page links - clients often need to make links to pages WITHIN their site, not always outside.
But I think Pulse is great, definitely one of my preferred options.
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Hi Hugh,
Yes, the full ckeditor is about 6 mb. But the slimmed down version Pulse uses is less than 1 mb and it has the most important functions enabled. TinyMCE is not much better in terms of size, I tried it out when I was building pulse. I keep looking for a more lightweight WYSIWYG editor, but I always come back to ckeditor as it produces really clean code, works well and looks great too.
Regarding the internal links, I am confused as to why you think you can’t create internal links? I’ve never seen a CMS that would not allow this. Can you elaborate?
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I suspect that he means “can’t create internal links” by picking pages
from a list, not by divining the full external addresses of the pages
and entering them in the link tool. I’ve built a few CMSs that present
a list of all virtual pages and let you pick one when creating a link.
Particularly in cases where pages are differentiated by querystring
only, it can be a big deal for clients to be able to do this with
point and click.
Walter
On Mar 26, 2010, at 8:15 AM, markf wrote:
Regarding the internal links, I am confused as to why you think you
can’t create internal links? I’ve never seen a CMS that would not
allow this. Can you elaborate?
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Hi Mark,
Fair comment on the editors, I guess you always have to balance size against features and performance. I just recall downloading the full CK editor for another use and thinking ‘what a whopper!’. But it is a good one.
Sorry if I’m confusing you, I’m probably not explaining myself very well.
Most of these WYSIWYGS have the little chain icon, and clicking this (to make a link) invariably brings up a dialogue box where you can enter a full http:// address. That’s fine as far as it goes, and ok for outside links.
But if that’s all there is for INTERNAL links, then it demands a lot of the user to remember what might be quite a long list of possibly complex URLs. Given that your Pulse user is likely to be at the less savvy end of our technology spectrum, this doesn’t smack of ‘usability’.
The instinct of a ‘user’, if linking internally within their own site, would be to click the chain icon and then get the external url box AND a list of files or pages which make up the site. Few CMS seem to facilitate this listing of your own site pages for quick internal linking.
I realise there may be technical limitations on what a WYSIWYG can and cannot do. But I’ve always thought that, as hyperlinking is the foundation of the web, this issue should be handled better by CMS vendors.
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Walter…you said it in a quarter of the space! Exactly.
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Ah ok, now I see what you mean. I’m not sure how you would go about doing that or if its even possible with CKEditor.
Not to sound elitist or anything, but typing in “contact.php” into a link box is pretty basic stuff. At some point the end user has to have a certain level of competence if they are going to be using even a basic CMS. (Hope that doesn’t sound too harsh, just being honest 
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I partially agree with you, Mark, it’s not rocket science.
But if you could see the competence level of some clients you would think again! Believe me, there is a whole tier of customers out there who want it all ‘on a plate’ - it has to be that easy.
Even my more savvy client might wriggle a bit - they have some 60+ pages with text heavy pages with copious interlinking (industrial stuff!), and not just from page to page, but page to page anchor. I think you’d agree that too many of the following kind of address would not be so easy to remember!..
ce_machinery_safety.php#legislation
So no, I personally don’t think it’s too big a thing. But on the other hand, and especially given your target market (?), your answer smacks a little of getting off the hook! Never underestimate the incompetence of your customers!
Hope that doesn’t sound too harsh 
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What I did on one of my CMSs was to repurpose the site map control
within the links control. Selecting text in the editor and pressing
the link button opens an overlay with the site map on the left in a
scrollable DIV and a text field on the right, helpfully prepended with
http:// as a hint to enter a fully-qualified URL. Clicking on one of
the pages in the site map enters the correct link in the editor, and
entering a link in the URL field and pressing Okay enters that URL.
Screenshots here: walterdavisstudio | Flickr
Walter
On Mar 26, 2010, at 9:08 AM, markf wrote:
Ah ok, now I see what you mean. I’m not sure how you would go about
doing that or if its even possible with CKEditor.Not to sound elitist or anything, but typing in “contact.php” into a
link box is pretty basic stuff. At some point the end user has to
have a certain level of competence if they are going to be using
even a basic CMS. (Hope that doesn’t sound too harsh, just being
honestMark
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OK, Walter, where do we sign up?..
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Pretty cool Walter. I dont see this making its way into pulse, but its a very nice implementation regardless.
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