Re: [Radiant] A few questions

[Elle Meredith]

On 03/03/2009, at 11:54 PM, Sean Cribbs wrote:

It may go away in later versions (because of the coming page- 
attributes feature), but Radiant has the description and  
keywords fields in the meta area of the edit screen.  In your  
layout, use r:meta / to emit both of those fields, or  
r:meta:description / and r:meta:keywords /.


This is great. Just what I was looking for.

Elle

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Re: [Radiant] A few questions

[Elle Meredith]

On 04/03/2009, at 12:33 AM, Jim Gay wrote:


if you are referring to 
http://github.com/saturnflyer/radiant-seo_help-extension/
It was written to provide if_meta/unless_meta tags, which the  
existing standard Radiant tags does not provide.


The README says:
You should consider using page parts for your page meta data. The  
tags involved in using pages parts are significantly more helpful  
and flexible than the tags to support the meta information.


This is because I felt that the keywords and description fields  
could easily, and more adeptly be used when the content is added in  
page parts because the tags supporting those are significantly more  
flexible. In order to have if/unless tags in my layouts for the  
keywords/description, I needed to write this extension (and because  
a client already had info in those fields).


Thank you for explaining this Jim. I was wondering... and this makes  
sense



Elle
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[Radiant] A few questions

[Elle Meredith]

Hello,

I actually have a few (quite a few) questions, so I thought I'd group  
them together into one email.


1. Which extension should I choose: paperclipped or page_attachment?

2. I haven't seen (maybe I just missed it) any extension that lets me  
add downloadable files to the website and monitor how many times they  
get downloaded.


3. With CSS, I usually link to one master.css in the head and then  
import all the other stylesheets into that file.

In my radiant app I:
- created a layout for stylesheets
- created a page for each stylesheet (including the master stylesheet  
called styles.css which gets linked in the head )

- changed the link for each to be for example reset.css
But my styles do not get applied.

I also tried to place my stylesheets in public/stylesheets and link to  
them there but again to no avail.

Where is my mistake? How would you recommend tackling this?

4. With Javascript, last time I remember Rails relied on Prototype. I  
personally prefer to use jQuery. Do I just place my scripts in public/ 
javascripts?
I've seen prototype.js there already. Should I be aware of possible  
conflicts?


5. I've looked at the seo extension and it suggests to add a page part  
for each metadata. I find this is an unnecessary duplication, since I  
already fill out this information for each page. Is there any other  
way to incorporate the keywords and description fields as metatags for  
each page?


6. I've installed radiant as an empty template, but when I go to  
create a new page, the default includes body and extended part.  
How do I cancel the defaults so only body part appears when I create  
a new page?


7. Lastly, the Styled Blog template uses extended part and the  
Roastes template uses summary part to be able to provide a shorter  
summary.

Is there any easier way to just show an excerpt on the Archives page?


I know, a lot of questions. Your assistance with any of the above  
questions will be great...

Thanks,
Elle
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Re: [Radiant] A few questions

[michael starke]

Hello there,

i'll try to give some humble answers =)

On 02.03.2009, at 22:21, Elle Meredith wrote:


Hello,

I actually have a few (quite a few) questions, so I thought I'd  
group them together into one email.


1. Which extension should I choose: paperclipped or page_attachment?


i started out using page_attachemnt and also modified it a bit but  
then i read about paperclipped being the new way to do it.

so i switched. (yes i'm easily convinced sometimes)

my experinces so far with both of them (they are limited)

page_attachment:
easy use, not to complicated, has the if_attachment tag, which i  
added to paperclipped cos i'm to stupid to find a solution already  
present or it isn't =)
you can only access the images per page - paperclipped is better in  
this way.


paperclipped:
not so easy at the first glance, a bit more work to just add an  
image but it's better with its central asset management.
and the migration from page_attachment to this is very neat and built  
in.
you can access any asset form every page - so central not local asset  
management.


what the devs say:
 paperclipped is more resource friendly laking the rmagick- 
Imagemagick bridge. I cannot give you any details on this, because our  
server did the job well with both of them.



2. I haven't seen (maybe I just missed it) any extension that lets  
me add downloadable files to the website and monitor how many times  
they get downloaded.


havent seen that too, and am happy to get to know on


3. With CSS, I usually link to one master.css in the head and then  
import all the other stylesheets into that file.

In my radiant app I:
- created a layout for stylesheets
- created a page for each stylesheet (including the master  
stylesheet called styles.css which gets linked in the head )

- changed the link for each to be for example reset.css
But my styles do not get applied.

I also tried to place my stylesheets in public/stylesheets and link  
to them there but again to no avail.

Where is my mistake? How would you recommend tackling this?


Mh, the later is the way i do it (i like to keep the files in version  
control) and i works fine for me, are you sure the paths are correct?
Something like /stylesheets/yourstyle.css ? You do not need to use  
public because (with passenger and using the loca ruby (webrick,  
mongrel) server at least) that's already your document root so every  
link gets evaluated within public/


Are the access rights corrects?

6. I've installed radiant as an empty template, but when I go to  
create a new page, the default includes body and extended part.  
How do I cancel the defaults so only body part appears when I  
create a new page?


the parts being created on each page (and the status) are defined by a  
config entry. You can manipulate it. Take a look here:

http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Additional_Configuration_Options

you can also install the settings extension (http://github.com/Squeegy/radiant-settings/tree/master 
) and then edit it via the admin frontend, paperclipped actually  
encourages you to install it.



7. Lastly, the Styled Blog template uses extended part and the  
Roastes template uses summary part to be able to provide a shorter  
summary.
Is there any easier way to just show an excerpt on the Archives  
page?




if i remember correctyl there is an extension to trunkate the content,  
am not sure about the name. I think i foudn it at ext.radiantcms.org.



I know, a lot of questions. Your assistance with any of the above  
questions will be great...

Thanks,
Elle



grettings
michael


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