I would like to start n2Cms. there were lots of samples available. but i could not understand any.
my requirement is
1) am having the html static site, so need to add cms feature to it
2) the site is not MVC.
if any know how to do this, please help me with step by step by guide
N2CMS doesn't have a feature to import a static HTML site. Currently, the only way to do what you are asking is create a new site based on N2, set up the template using WebForms or ASP.NET MVC, and then copy/paste your existing content into N2CMS.
Setup instructions for N2CMS are here: https://n2cmsdocs.atlassian.net/wiki/display/N2CMS/Setting+Up+Your+Environment
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I have an existing java web application, servlet based. I plan to add a module to show news articles to visitors. So i choose liferay as our CMS. The solution in my mind is that using an iframe in my web site to show news articles managed by liferay CMS. If i do so, is it convenient for our news editor to manage news articles with liferay CMS? Shall he/she switched to liferay to do this? It seems that the preview function of liferay CMS could guarantee only the inline iframe's visual effect is nice, am i right here?
Besides, could you please advise me a better solution other than iframe based solution?
I am looking forward for your comments, any help here would be appreciated!
Maybe it's better that liferay includes the existing Web app.
I want to create a vBulletin custom plug-in but I am new in vBulletin i don't know about the vBulletin. I have tried to download the plug-ins but only commercial user will download the plug-in.
There is no specific tutorial that you can follow to create a specific product, however there is a good tutorial from vBulletin which gives you a good idea on how to create a vBulletin 'product' that can be downloaded and installed by others.
But basically to create a product you need to learn some basics and you have to know, php, html, css, and have a understanding of how vBulletin works. Then take it and put it all together.
To get a good understanding, I would recommend modifying other people's add-ons to suit your needs. That's how I was able to get a good understanding of how vBulletin works and then all you have to do as you progress, is to ask the right questions.
The recommendations bellow are also supported by well know vBulletin coders.
Source.
PHP, basic guide: PHP 5 Tutorial
HTML basic guide: HTML Tutorial - (HTML5 Compliant)
CSS basic guide: CSS Tutorial
vBulletin basic mod guide: Creating a Product
We are considering purchasing Sitefinity (or DotNetNuke) on pretty short notice and there are is a question I have that I am having trouble finding a quick answer to. (I have a separate but similar post with DotNetNuke as the focus, if you can answer that better or in addition.)
We are currently not using any CMS at all and we have some custom development that will not go away just because we go with a CMS for some or most of our site.
Our custom development is c# ASPX with Site Master and nested Site Master pages. These custom apps do not own their own top level in our web site, but are part of a branch, typically one or two levels down (for example, http://www.contoso.com/branch/app/default.aspx).
How is Sitefinity typically configured in a CMS/Custom “mixed mode”? For example, is Sitefinity installed at the “top” of the web site, or “where needed” down in the web site.
How does this relate when mixing CMS and custom web applications?
Does the CMS interface allow for adding these custom apps or do you just go to the web server and add them to the structure?
It appears from reading other posts, we can create our own custom c# modules and have CMS editors “drop in” the modules on the pages. Can someone confirm that for me?
If I did not provide enough detail, please feel free to ask for more.
We have Sitefinity installed at the root with plenty of subfolders containing custom pages. We typically build a usercontrol, add it to the sitefinity ToolboxesConfig.config file, then drag/drop it into a sitefinity CMS page. I believe this is what you're talking about regarding having "CMS editors drop in modules on the pages".
We also have master/child pages that are imported as page templates into Sitefinity and they work well. You can also link from any CMS page to a regular .aspx page out in a subfolder of your own and implement code there that uses the sitefinity API, but we personally found this much more tricky and veered away from this approach whenever possible.
So in a nutshell, custom code is relatively easy to integrate into sitefinity as long as you can condense it into a user control or master page.
Disclaimer: This was all done with regular web forms development. I'm not sure how an MVC site would interact with Sitefinity (which I believe is built using an MVC architecture itself anyway).
The part of your question I'm unsure of is regarding the custom webapps in nested branches. I would recommend installing the trial version of sitefinity and trying to get a single branch integrated as a prototype. This might take a day, but it would be worth it to know if the sitefinity route is going to give you heartache.
Full disclaimer: I work on Sitefinity.
First, let me say that throughout the history of Sitefinity, extensibility and developer-friendliness have been our top priorities. We've tried to create a CMS that uses concepts familiar to ASP.NET developers and build on top of them.
Now let me go through each of your points.
You can organize Sitefinity deployment however you like. In your case with sub-apps, you can either create virtual directories in IIS and deploy separate instances of Sitefinity in each of them, or you can use the CMS to do the sub-apps. In the CMS they can be separate branches of pages, have separate templates applied and feel like separate sites. You'll still manage them through one interface. It is up to you to choose an approach.
Sitefinity is a normal ASP.NET web application with the CMS assemblies in the BIN folder. You can open the project in Visual Studio and run it like a normal ASP.NET Web app. From a developer viewpoint, there's no difference between a custom app and a Sitefinity app - they are just ASP.NET web apps.
If you follow an approach of installing Sitefinity in the root and then using the CMS to create sub-apps, you can do it through the UI. If you choose to run separate virtual directories, you have to manually upload the files. Also, Sitefinity has a built-in File explorer, which you can use to manage the files on the server.
The modules you are referring to are called widgets in Sitefinity. For a developer, they are nothing more than custom ASP.NET controls and user controls. The Sitefinity page editor UI allows you to drop widgets in placeholders on a page and configure their properties. The placeholders are defined in a masterpage (a normal ASP.NET masterpage) or through the UI.
It is very easy to create custom widgets. Here's a Quick Start: http://www.sitefinity.com/blogs/gabesumner/posts/11-08-29/ldquo_hello_world_rdquo_guide_to_custom_sitefinity_widgets_amp_controldesigners.aspx
We also have modules, which are a little more complicated concepts. They manage data, have backend and frontend UI. I encourage you to go through our blogs and documentation for further info.
We also have an SDK, containing samples with source code for extensions to the CMS.
You may want to look at Kentico CMS that supports similar scenarios - you can easily mix your own ASPX pages and CMS-controlled ASPX pages, so it's very flexible.
All,
I have an existing website, that uses a CMS. There are no modules that we like or seem fit
for IPhone/Android/Windows Mobile Safari/Chrome/IE website display available for the CMS.
Is there any open-source project out there that can scrape a html site output for mobile browsers on the fly, where minimal coding is required, and little or no changes required to the original logic?
eg. apache/CMS -> converter -> iphone/android/windows phone.
Thanks in advance for your comments.
-Jer
I need to make pages in Joomla, and my template has my header and footer. I intend to use components as pages where I enter my Html code. How can I make these simple components?
This tutorial is the best I have come across so far.
Component is major part in Joomla, you should clearly understand its ins and outs, have a look at this tutorial to get you started:
Step-By-Step Joomla Component Creation Tutorial
You should refer this site. This tools enables you to build component from scratch. It will save lots of your effort & time.
Here is another one which I just found.