I am using Kentico portal to make an E-commerce site.If I wish to change the design of available sample E-commerce site.Would it be a tidious task ?
Example : If I download e-commerce design templates (i.e html and css files) and I wish to change design of each page of sample kentico site (home page,product detail page etc.)then, what is the most suitable and quick way to achieve this ?
How should I update the html/css of each page of available site with downloaded templates? OR Should I create entirely a new e-commerce site in the portal ?
The out of the box sites are meant to be used as examples and references not to build a production site off of. The markup used on the Ecommerce site will also be different, considerably different than your purchased template. I've found it much easier and faster to start from scratch with a blank site and implement all of the design that way. Make sure you take advantage of shared layouts and templates, this will help make development and re-skins in the future easier.
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I'm currently working on a CMS for meteor (basically a WordPress-like).
I have a simple question about the design of this CMS.
Should I divide my CMS in two application :
-One part for the viewed content (site, template, viewer plugins)
-Another one for the administration part (statistics, web mastering, post and page creation, etc)
Or,
Should I make an all in one application using different routes and security levels.
From my point of view both have pros and cons.
Divide :
Share the CMS between several servers.
Possibility to manage different websites with only one administration application. Looks like a network.
-Using administration without the viewer app.(Headless Drupal)
-Using the full meteor potential for big application.
All in one :
Smaller application, template more adapted to the administration panel.
Easier to handling it.
-Blog oriented.
I'm really interested by your ideas and opinion.
Thanks.
I'd suggest splitting it up between viewers and admin. You don't want viewers of the site to have to download so much extra code. Both parts can share the same database.
I've been developing an static website (just html, css and js files) for a client who now wants to load the site on to Kentico CMS.
I don't know anything about this CMS. Is this a practical way to import the completed code into this system?
Thanks.
I would do things the way Kentico expects.
Take your header/footer and put them into the master page (template).
Take individual template HTML and create Layouts and Templates from them.
Use Kentico Web Part where possible
For dynamic content areas, use the Editable Content Web Part.
For the menu use the CSS Menu Web Part.
Use the Portal Engine technique. Don't use ASPX pages unless you really have to.
Here is some documentation from version 8: https://docs.kentico.com/display/K8/Creating+portal+engine+master+pages.
I am aware of a program called "SharePoint Designer 20xx), and I would like to know if any of you have modified the default master page to make it.. less confusing and more simplistic. Can this be however I want it or is there limitations?
I also found this:
http://www.expertsharepointconsulting.com/images/Blue%20Large.PNG
I would like to implement a design similar to this! If I were to download a "Free sharepoint master page", would this design only work for the main page of SharePoint? as in if I were to go from the newly added masterpage, to a page called "reports", would it be completely different? If so how can I get around this?
You can create customized masterpages whichever way you want. Usually you don't touch the default ones, specially because you can break some system pages with that. Just create new ones from them or from the minimum.master one.
As an example of a Sharepoint Website using a very customized master page I can point you to a publishing website project I was involved for a Portuguese company: http://www.ana.pt/en-US/Pages/Homepage.aspx
It's all Sharepoint 2010...and it is fully customized
You can of course use the same template for all pages, just have to set it on the root site and say that all sub sites inherit from it.
To achieve the level of design changes you see on that web site you have to build new master pages, page layouts, use JS, CSS and user controls (the website uses little to no web parts).
we don't use Sharepoint designer because that would mean the files becoming unghosted, which can be pain sometimes, and sharepoint designer is not a very good tool.
The way we do it is by implementing everything on visual studio and deploying it via WSP packages. This way everything stays ghosted on the file system. You can check an example here:
http://mihirsharepoint.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/creating-custom-master-page-in-visual-studio-and-deploy-it-to-the-sharepoint-site/
I've developed with WPS and WCM for several years and now I am also learning Liferay. I can't help but compare the features and I understand that in Liferay some things are done differently.
I would like to know the best practices to manage the following simple example:
A simple page with a carrousel with several images and links
Google analytics inserted in the page (Reusable in most pages)
The following is how I'd solve it in IBM WPS:
A HTML component with the Google Analytics code that is called in every page (I can't find how to do this in Liferay)
A content definition of an image and a link.
Create several contents for each image and link.
Create a menu that shows the list of content in the form of a carrousel (I can't find how to do this either in Liferay)
I am aware that Liferay has a list portlet and content that has repeatable items. I know I could use these, however its much more usable if I can have on content for each image/link and one reusable HTML snippet of code.
How should I solve this in liferay in the most efficient way?
Thanks!
You have to use Liferay Web Content portlet for creating the carousel. This is available in Control Panel. For your particular requirememnt you have to create a dynamic web content, which involves using of Velocity language and javascript to iterate over a set of images. Infact if you see Liferay's website, the home page has this kind of stuff.
For Google Analytics there are two ways. Liferay is not just meant for creating one site, it caters creation of multiple sites. Each site has a group of pages. You can create site from Control panel again. In the site settings you have this option to add google analytics id. So with each site can have different google analytics id.
If you want to do it at a global level, we add the google analytics script snippet in the Theme of liferay.
To get a better understanding of all the jargons used in Liferay, you have to atleast go through Liferay's documentation. And while going through it you have unlearn what you have previously learned. Liferay has hell lot of features than Websphere portal.
http://www.liferay.com/documentation/liferay-portal/6.1/user-guide
We have a requirement from a client for porting an ASPX website to sharepoint :
Though the site is being served in ASPX there are no form submissions so effectively, they are just static pages without any server side processing required.
However, there is a common header and footer being used.
Here are some of the features being used in the existing site :
sifr for font substitution (using non standard web fonts)
flash animations
javascript and some jquery
common header and footer for all pages
My question is how feasible is it to port this website to sharepoint ?
Can i use sifr (or flash for that instance) in sharepoint ? or do i have to port it to silverlight ?
What is the general procedure for converting web applications to sharepoint ? Also i came across this http://www.metalogix.net/Products/Website-Migration-Manager-for-SharePoint/ for migration of website to sharepoint.
Can javascript be used in sharepoint ?
How can i have common header and footer in sharepoint documents ?
Pardon my ignorance or any discrepancies in any of my knowledge since i havent worked with any microsoft technologies i would really appreciate some relevant answers from the community here.
Thanks.
Yes, you can use flash, javascript and jquery in sharepoint. Keep in mind that sharepoint is built over asp.net.
I never used sifr, but if it is just flash there shouldn't be any problem using it with sharepoint. Anyway, you can start considering using webfonts instead.
Common header an footer pages are also easy to implement with sharepoint as you can use the master pages, wich are exactly for that.
We did something quite similar to that and what we did was place the pages under Layouts and attach them to the master page. This is about 20 mins of work, but it looks like SharePoint. We needed that to integrate an LOB system to become a part of a large MOSS portal