Thank you, everyone, for your great answers. These are very useful and help alleviate some of the trepidation of starting the CMS conversion of the page. I will be back to the listserv again (and again) as other questions arise. Thanks again, everybody, for your detailed answers.
Sincerely, Alex Cougarman UNC-TV Web Applications Developer 919-549-7823 ---------------------------------- ""The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest, It blesseth him that gives and him that takes." Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matteo Pelucco" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 5:10:00 AM Subject: [magnolia-user] Re: Need beginner's advice on converting page to Magnolia On 20.07.2010 14:34, 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? The answer in these cases is allways the same: it depends! There are no preferred ways, but this is what I would do. 1) Take the entire html page inside one template ftl 2) Attach resources (JS, CSS, Images) and try to have the same page running inside Magnolia These steps are quite easy. Do not go on unless you have the entire page running (no broken CSS, no broken JS, carousel moving...) inside Magnolia. Now, start to cut! 3) Isolate paragraphs 4) For each paragraphs, decide if it is a simple paragraph or a composite paragraph (like the carousel: 1 paragraph for carousel handler {I mean, few container divs and JS, CSS..} and 1 paragraph for carousel items {1 paragraph, many instances of it}) 5...) Build paragraph, dialogs, configure your template... At the end, create the site and reference templates. Pay attention: for some paragraphs, like the carousel, the inline editing can be difficult. In these cases, I prefer to facilitate editors life building an editing area, visible only in author instance, maybe activate with a button press.. I did it for a wide image gallery, impossible to edit/move in a strage layout we had. HTH, Matteo ---------------------------------------------------------------- For list details see http://www.magnolia-cms.com/home/community/mailing-lists.html To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- For list details see http://www.magnolia-cms.com/home/community/mailing-lists.html To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> ----------------------------------------------------------------
