I want to find out what the easiest cms system is that a fool such as I (as Elvis once said) could grasp how to use. So I try searching this great community. Only problem is that it gives the results by ‘relevance then date’, so I get a load of stuff from 2006 and 2007 and I don’t know if this is still relevant or not.
Is is possible just to go by date and get most recent replies at the top?
What is easy for you may not meet your client’s needs
Good point
But I would take it as true that both the client and I are fools when it comes to cms.
I am in the process of doing a site for a local cinema - simple rough version example here http://www.sergeantdesign.com/julyfilms.html
They want to add the films - so will mean them adding an image, date, film title and body text.
Examples of cms show it is easy to add this in once - but we need to repeat this for each film about 10 times on a page.
What you recommend?
Many thanks.
Hi Noel, I’m a WebYep user (it’s the only cms I’ve used so far) and that would be quite adequate for these needs. you just need to get your head around the ‘loop’ function within WebYep and have your styles set properly (in CAPITALS) and away you go. The only thing you may have a problem with is the yellow backgrounds being separated out, I can’t immediately see a way for that to happen, but pretty sure it’s doable.
Also, there’s lots of help on here for that and Max is extremely helpful.
Trev
On 9 Jul 2013, at 09:53, Noel Sergeant wrote:
What is easy for you may not meet your client’s needs
Good point
But I would take it as true that both the client and I are fools when it comes to cms.
I am in the process of doing a site for a local cinema - simple rough version example here http://www.sergeantdesign.com/julyfilms.html
They want to add the films - so will mean them adding an image, date, film title and body text.
Examples of cms show it is easy to add this in once - but we need to repeat this for each film about 10 times on a page.
What you recommend?
Many thanks.
Hi Noel
as trevor has indicated this is perfect webyep scenario.
To create this so your client is able to have a rolling 3 month program list would require a webyep menu for the months and on the page a webyep loop which contains a webyep image a webyep title and a webyep description plus a link to the booking site
thats it from that you can create as many months as you wish and as many different films on each page as you want
its all done from 1 page with 1 loop
if you want to have a go at editing something to see if the system is for you then go to as it contains a loop:
wow - thanks for that, looks just the job
If necessary I’m sure we could lose the yellow background
Do the html boxes work in a similar way to freeway i.e. by making them flexible height text will expand to space needed?
Will show demo to client - may be back with more questions!!
I haven’t looked at Max’s example, but yes, the boxes will expand to accommodate the copy inserted (or if you place them within another html box, make sure it can expand).
Trev
On 9 Jul 2013, at 11:45, Noel Sergeant wrote:
wow - thanks for that, looks just the job
If necessary I’m sure we could lose the yellow background
Do the html boxes work in a similar way to freeway i.e. by making them flexible height text will expand to space needed?
Will show demo to client - may be back with more questions!!
Hi Noel the expansion etc is straight forward and so is the yellow band on the image its a normal css border left style on the image tag so none of it is out of the ordinary
come back to me if you need help
all the best max
The search is weighted by date, but the relevance weighting is given more priority. There is no way (by concocting a special URL or similar, for example) to alter the weighting algorithm. I haven’t looked at this code since I wrote the app, years ago. If I get a chance, I will see if there are some levers I might pull.
Walter
On Jul 9, 2013, at 10:34 AM, Richard Lowther wrote:
Is is possible just to go by date and get most recent replies at the top?
Going back to the original question - is this possible ? I too get frustrated some days by old posts from back in the day.
Hi Richard, this is something I enquired about, probably a couple of years ago as it was coming up with old stuff first, not relevant for new Freeway versions. This is what Walter started up the Kickstarter for (I think) to redo the not-so-simple-task of rejuvenating FWTalk. There didn’t seem to be enough donations/interest from many people to actually pay for all of the free help they currently get from here.
Trev
On 9 Jul 2013, at 15:34, Richard Lowther wrote:
Is is possible just to go by date and get most recent replies at the top?
Going back to the original question - is this possible ? I too get frustrated some days by old posts from back in the day.
The Kickstarter was for ActionsForge. The two sites (AF and FT) are both built on the same framework, and suffer the limitations of having been written many years ago in PHP. If I were to do it over again today, I would write it in Ruby on Rails and use more recent versions of everything (probably the same search engine – Sphinx is shockingly good for free). It would be great is there were a lot more Freeway users out there, or if we were each a lot richer (and thus could afford to pitch in to a greater degree), then we would be able to stay up to date.
Walter
On Jul 9, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Trevor Reaveley wrote:
Hi Richard, this is something I enquired about, probably a couple of years ago as it was coming up with old stuff first, not relevant for new Freeway versions. This is what Walter started up the Kickstarter for (I think) to redo the not-so-simple-task of rejuvenating FWTalk. There didn’t seem to be enough donations/interest from many people to actually pay for all of the free help they currently get from here.
Trev
On 9 Jul 2013, at 15:34, Richard Lowther wrote:
Is is possible just to go by date and get most recent replies at the top?
Going back to the original question - is this possible ? I too get frustrated some days by old posts from back in the day.
I just recently updated http://freewaysearch.calebgrove.com to allow for sorting by date, which should come in handy. Personally, I don’t care for FreewayTalk’s built-in search results, I’d much rather have one result per thread, not one result per reply.