Yes it can be quite overwhelming if you have no prior Magnolia experience. I would definitively suggest a training first and/or get for a while someone with the experience on the team until you learn the basics. In the very least you need to read the STK book to understand how the STK templates work, how the JS and CSS files are loaded and how CSS IDs influence the template rendering.
To answer your other question - how to convert a page into a template, you have 2 options out of the box - JSP or FTL. I'd say that freemarker is simpler then JSP but that's just personal preference. You need to look at your page, break it into functional blocks (those will be the paragraph templates later) and the overall page structure you need to code in the page template. Templates (the default STK ones are under Templating Kit/Templates menu in the AdminCentral) can then be stored directly in the repository or they can exist anywhere on the classpath (in case of FTL) or directly in your webapp (Magnolia can extract those from the jar file for you if you package your module properly). Either way there's some reading you should be doing. http://documentation.magnolia-cms.com http://wiki.magnolia-cms.com http://dev.magnolia-cms.com in the very least. HTH, Jan On Jul 20, 2010, at 2:34 PM, Alex Cougarman wrote: > Hi, > > I’m diving into Magnolia CMS (CE 4.2.3) and need to convert this page to the > Magnolia system: http://bit.ly/9T4LPC > This will serve as the home page and will need to allow someone to update the > items in the carousel component, welcome paragraph, and the testimonial image > area (the big picture below the carousel). > > As you’ll notice, the page uses the AnythingSlider carousel component as well > as other JavaScript libraries (Fancybox, etc.). At this point, there’s > nothing server-side. > > We have the Magnolia CMS installed on our server and I have access to the > Admin Central tool to create sites and other items. I’ve read the > documentation on Magnolia and am overwhelmed by the project at hand: How do I > convert this page to Magnolia’s paragraphs and templates? Where do I start? > > (Also, there’s cleanup I need to do on the page – such as pulling the CSS > into its own file, optimizing the JavaScript, etc.) > > > Sincerely, > Alex Cougarman > > UNC-TV > Web Applications Developer > 919-549-7823 > ---------------------------------- > “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word > in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil > triumphant.” -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > For list details see > http://www.magnolia-cms.com/home/community/mailing-lists.html > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> > ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Best regards, Jan Haderka, PhD. Magnolia International Ltd. http://www.magnolia-cms.com You should join us at Magnolia Conference 2010: http://www.magnolia-cms.com/conference http://twitter.com/magnolia_cms http://facebook.com/Magnolia -------------------------------------- Magnolia® - Simple Open-Source Content Management ---------------------------------------------------------------- For list details see http://www.magnolia-cms.com/home/community/mailing-lists.html To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> ----------------------------------------------------------------
