How we one design an episerver site with multilaguage support using resource files?
There's no problem using resource files in EPiServer, except for localizing the UI.
Any particular reason why the standard approach of XML language files don't fit your solution?
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Why can't sfcc use html directly instead of isml. One reason I can see is to display dynamic content. But I wanted to know is there any other specific reason for it
using isml for templating sfcc allows the developer to do the following:
determine how B2C Commerce embeds live data into a page
determine how to format this data together with the regular HTML code
one more thing, is the huge utility of tags, helpers and commands that allows the developer to deal with different data models and views
The most basic difference:
ISML templates to generate dynamic storefront pages. Templates combine HTML with a proprietary language extension called Internet Store Markup Language (ISML). An ISML template consists of standard HTML markup, ISML tags, and script expressions. ISML templates are similar to Java Server Pages in that both are used to present dynamically generated web content.
The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript.(Static pages)
Ref:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML
https://documentation.b2c.commercecloud.salesforce.com/DOC2/topic/com.demandware.dochelp/content/b2c_commerce/topics/site_development/b2c_working_with_templates.html
I have a site that was originally built with FrontPage and then transferred over into Dreamweaver. There's a lot of old coding in there and a lot of image maps (think PhotoShop image slicing) for navigation etc. I need to move the site over to Kentico (not my choice) and I'm wondering if there is an easier way of doing it.
I was able to rebuild the whole template in Kentico and now I'm left with creating all the pages and importing content. Currently I'm copying and pasting all the content (text) into the pages I've built and I'm uploading all pdfs and images into the new system. That's all fine and dandy, but there are literally HUNDREDS of pages and THOUSANDS of pdfs. Is there any easier way of doing this? I'm going crazy!
Regrettably there is no easy way to achieve your goal as Kentico is ASP.NET application and your website is built with HTML pages at the moment.
You will need to manually transfer all the pages or you can use Kentico API to handle this programatically but you will need to parse the HTML pages on your own, so in this scenario... the best option is really to transfer all the content manually (or you can pay one of Kentico partners to do this for you).
I am working on a project where we are taking a bunch of documents authored using MS Word and placing them online. Currently they are being published as PDF documents in order to maintain the formatting.
We are evaluating Content Management Systems (CMS), however, there is a bit of reluctance among the content publishers to use the CMS built in WYSYWIG editor. I can understand why, they are nowhere near as good as Word!
Some CMS have decent 'paste from Word' functions, but the one I have found that handles images as well is this Wordpress pluging.
My question is - are there any Content Management Systems that have been built with Word integration in mind? Something that makes it as easy as possible to publish Word documents as HTML.
So far from what I have seen, Microsoft Sharepoint had the best integration with the MS Office. I think most of them use Sharepoint as a intranet portal, but it could be also hosted as a public facing website. But compared to other CMS, it can be little pricey. But it has tons of features apart from content management.
Sharepoint Demo
Public Facing Sharepoint Websites
Microsoft Word does publish documents as HTML.
File > Save As > Web Page (Filtered)
Office.com - Save a document as a webpage
ahmednuaman/gdrive-cms-php uses Google Drive as a pseudo back-end to store and edit pages (Documents).
The self-hosted PHP and MySQL CMS requests text/HTML-exports of to display as web pages.
It also simplifies authentication and group permissions (if the editors are already Google/Drive users).
Basically i have requirement to build a CMS kind of site.
if user submits a article what is the best way to store the article. whether it is xml or database.
the article will contain rich text formatting like content,images,highlighting source code.
sample article looks like http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/article1498-how-to-work-with-or-create-master-pages-in-aspnet-.aspx. Take this article as example which has images,content, source code highlighting and rich text formats. so how to store this kind of content to our website.
please guide me best way of how to store.
If you are planning to implement a CMS I would strongly recommend that you look at the open source CMSs that are out there before you start rolling your own.
WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal are the big three CMS and would be able to do all the things you have suggested.
On the issue of whether to store in the database or as files or has had an answer here: CMS: store custom pages as files or in MySQL database?
The question of whether images should be stored in a db vs filesystem is a recurring theme and this seems to be one of the best QandAs on it
Store pictures as files or in the database for a web app?
The above Title is my Manager's words, not mine. :)
This is a follow-up to a question that I posted previously. After reading my assessment on the impacts of converting Word Templates from PC to Mac, I have now been asked to investigate whether Word Templates can be replaced with a "Platform-independent Web-based solution" (her words, not mine). She has suggested using Adobe Forms (ie. Adobe Designer).
Personally, I think the only truly platform-independent web-based solution is text files or html forms. What do other people think?
It's called WordprocessingML (aka. WordXML, WordML)...
Overview of WordprocessingML [Word 2003 XML Reference] at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa212812(office.11).aspx.
MSDN Search for "WordML" at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Search/en-US?query=WordML&ac=3
It could be called XForms...
The Web was suppose to be platform-independent electronic documents. In other words, if you truly want platform-independence, then I agree with you and your forms should be in HTML. Yet, HTML forms are really not a good development platform. That is why Adobe, Microsoft, and others provide "form" solutions. XForms is an attempt to make developing and using HTML forms more flexible, overcome its limitations, and provide a platform-independent object model for completing HTML forms. You might want to look at XForms at http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/.
But, I wouldn't call it PDF
In my opinion, working with PDF files is difficult. I have not looked at the file format specification, but I heard it is not trivial. Moreover, you need a custom editor and you are locked into one vendor, which is Adobe. (Yet, there are other open-source and vendors who support the file format.) Adobe is not know for creating programs that are easy to use.
My Suggestion
If you are already using Word, then moving to WordML should be fairly easy. You can easily convert your existing Word documents into WordML by simply saving them as XML from the Save Dialog; therefore, you can automate this process through code. In addition, I believe WordML supports form templates (the actual form) and data documents (the actual data for a form).
It's called PDF...
At the core (and without the million of extra unnecessary features" that's exactly the niche that Adobe PDFs were designed to fill.
I'd suggest you look more into Adobe Acrobat Professional for more info. Although, I don't think there's any good way to directly convert Word docs to PDF format.
Note: This question should be moved to Super User since it's not really programming related
Google Docs meets those requirements of a Platform-independent Web-based solution. Your mileage will vary with Google Docs though - if you just want to use it for letters, it's good. Much beyond that, it's rather limited. Unless you get the Premier (read: Corporate) version which you have to pay for, you won't be able to programmatically fiddle with the templates.
If you want a "Platform-independent solution", go with ODF or OOXML. You can make either "web-based" to your hearts content - maybe with HTML5 or another solution such as Flash or Silverlight.