Ready to give up on phpwcms
Ready to give up on phpwcms
I am almost ready to give up on this program. I love the administration side of it except for the template creation. I really dont understand how to make a template using this program and every so called tutorial I have found was either in German or Dutch or some such language that I cant read. So I am seriously considering going back to Mambo unless someone can point me to where there might be an English speaking tutorial???
I have seen this before. Nowere on this page does it tell how to make a template in phpwcms.Pauli wrote:http://www.phpwcms-docu.de/english_version.phtml
Hi,
@Pauli: There is no description about creating a template or layout.
Here are the first doc to do so.
http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=14,0,0,1,0,0
An other doc, an old but fine one, you find at this place: [2.26 Mb]
www(.)phpwcms.planmatrix(.)de/download/phpwcms_docu_en.pdf
More next days.
Gruß Knut
@Pauli: There is no description about creating a template or layout.
Here are the first doc to do so.
http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=14,0,0,1,0,0
An other doc, an old but fine one, you find at this place: [2.26 Mb]
www(.)phpwcms.planmatrix(.)de/download/phpwcms_docu_en.pdf
More next days.
Gruß Knut
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First off I want to apologize to all in this forum. I should have already done this. After I wrote what I did originally in this topic I felt bad cause it sounded like I was being whiny or something and I really did not mean to. I think I was just frustrated more than anything. I love this cms and I was getting frustrated by not being able to find anything. And I scoured the internet looking for anything and everything I could on this cms. But like I said most of it I could not even read much less comprehend. I just think it is a shame that more English speaking people have not put more input into this cms. But thanks to fli-flop and DeXXus they have uncovered some real help! I thank both of you immensely and it is well appreciated and I will jump right in with both feet later on tonight and see if I can get me a template up and running soon:)
God Bless you all!
God Bless you all!
fli-flop wrote:Hi,
@Pauli: There is no description about creating a template or layout.
Here are the first doc to do so.
http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=14,0,0,1,0,0
An other doc, an old but fine one, you find at this place: [2.26 Mb]
www(.)phpwcms.planmatrix(.)de/download/phpwcms_docu_en.pdf
More next days.
Gruß Knut
I agree with you entirely, the English versions of the documentation are pretty unclear at times, and sometimes do not cover certain sections.
I for one am willing to contribute to a proper English version of the documentation!
As a side note to Oliver: Could you please create a section dedicated to an English version of the documentation, some people may say this is unnecessary, but i feel that it would provide a place for people to ask questions and for people to post English versions of sections not covered or badly covered.
I for one am willing to contribute to a proper English version of the documentation!
As a side note to Oliver: Could you please create a section dedicated to an English version of the documentation, some people may say this is unnecessary, but i feel that it would provide a place for people to ask questions and for people to post English versions of sections not covered or badly covered.
I was already thinking of an English forum just for the English community. I think it would vastly help phpwcms to grow. I dont see why someone could not start a forum like this? I dont know if it would fly or not but might be willing to take something on like this myself if enough interest was out there.kobos wrote:I agree with you entirely, the English versions of the documentation are pretty unclear at times, and sometimes do not cover certain sections.
I for one am willing to contribute to a proper English version of the documentation!
As a side note to Oliver: Could you please create a section dedicated to an English version of the documentation, some people may say this is unnecessary, but i feel that it would provide a place for people to ask questions and for people to post English versions of sections not covered or badly covered.
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Pappnase
hellokobos wrote:I agree with you entirely, the English versions of the documentation are pretty unclear at times, and sometimes do not cover certain sections.
I for one am willing to contribute to a proper English version of the documentation!
As a side note to Oliver: Could you please create a section dedicated to an English version of the documentation, some people may say this is unnecessary, but i feel that it would provide a place for people to ask questions and for people to post English versions of sections not covered or badly covered.
when something is not clear, why nobody use the e-mail form!? nothing can be changed if nobody say something!
Re: Ready to give up on phpwcms
Try this link HoustonJHouston wrote:I am almost ready to give up on this program. I love the administration side of it except for the template creation. I really dont understand how to make a template using this program and every so called tutorial I have found was either in German or Dutch or some such language that I cant read. So I am seriously considering going back to Mambo unless someone can point me to where there might be an English speaking tutorial???
http://faq.phpwcms-docu.de/13_15_en.html
TriP
Re: Ready to give up on phpwcms
Hi
1)
Create your website-layout in your favorit hmtl-program like Frontpage, Dreamweaver, GoLive and so on. Create all the layout related CSS stuff inside the file. At the place where later the content should go, place a {CONTENT} (so called Replacement-Tag). For the vertical menutree use
{NAV_TABLE_COLUMN} (for example).
Save the html-file, logos and grafics in a temporary directory on your harddisc. Now it's time to login as admin at phpwcms...
2)
Create a new pagelayout, looking like this:
3)
Create a new template. Open your html-file again an copy all the stuff between the body-tags and past it in the main field like this:
4)
Click on "Standard CSS" and create a new section, for example called "CSS for Layout". Copy all the layout related CSS stuff from your html-file into the Standard CSS, looking like this:
5)
Upload logos und backgroundgrafics by using FTP into the directory called /picture. I allways create there a new subdir called "layout". It contains only the layout related grafics... Make sure if you are using graphics from within fronten.css the path looks like this /picture/layout/logo.gif
...and ready is your Template...
It's so easy like 1-2-3-4...JHouston wrote:I really dont understand how to make a template using this program....
1)
Create your website-layout in your favorit hmtl-program like Frontpage, Dreamweaver, GoLive and so on. Create all the layout related CSS stuff inside the file. At the place where later the content should go, place a {CONTENT} (so called Replacement-Tag). For the vertical menutree use
{NAV_TABLE_COLUMN} (for example).
Save the html-file, logos and grafics in a temporary directory on your harddisc. Now it's time to login as admin at phpwcms...
2)
Create a new pagelayout, looking like this:
3)
Create a new template. Open your html-file again an copy all the stuff between the body-tags and past it in the main field like this:
4)
Click on "Standard CSS" and create a new section, for example called "CSS for Layout". Copy all the layout related CSS stuff from your html-file into the Standard CSS, looking like this:
5)
Upload logos und backgroundgrafics by using FTP into the directory called /picture. I allways create there a new subdir called "layout". It contains only the layout related grafics... Make sure if you are using graphics from within fronten.css the path looks like this /picture/layout/logo.gif
...and ready is your Template...
Greetz, tinoo