Coda Slider + CMS

[carlgordon]

Hi everyone

I have included a JQuery slider for a clients website and the client has asked me if they would be able to add, edit, delete the slides themselves. The slides contain both text and an image and what I want is something like either CushyCMS or PageLime that can insert or delete a small template inside a page…

<div class="panel">
<div class="panel-wrapper editable">
<h2 class="title">Add heading here</h2>
<img src="" width="200" height="200" />
<p>Add body text here</p>
</div>
</div>

Does anyone have any suggestions or should I just tell the client it’s not possible without re-writing the site to fit in a CMS like WordPress?

Thanks

[chrisL]

Hi Carl,

I think you could set this up in CushyCMS fairly easily. I’ve not used it before with images, but since it uses FTP to manipulate the site it does allow you to upload files. It wouldn’t take 10 minutes to set it up to test. You just add the "cushycms" class anywhere you want something to be editable.

Code:

This will become editable

More editable stuff here…

I’m not editable.

The tricky part is that you would probably have to have a static number of slides. I can’t think of a way to make this dynamic using CushyCMS.

[pagelime]

Hi Carl,

PageLime’s probably a better bet for this as we support repeating regions, so you can duplicate, sort, and remove editable regions:
http://blog.pagelime.com/2009/12/01/rep … e-feature/

If you’re signed up, I’d be glad to help you set this up. Just shoot me an email to emil [at] pagelime.com.

– Emil

[carlgordon]

Thanks Pagelime, that looks ideal for my needs. I’ll sign-up and have a look.

[carlgordon]

"chrisL" wrote:

Hi Carl,

I think you could set this up in CushyCMS fairly easily. I’ve not used it before with images, but since it uses FTP to manipulate the site it does allow you to upload files. It wouldn’t take 10 minutes to set it up to test. You just add the "cushycms" class anywhere you want something to be editable.

Code:

This will become editable

More editable stuff here…

I’m not editable.

The tricky part is that you would probably have to have a static number of slides. I can’t think of a way to make this dynamic using CushyCMS.

Thanks Chris but I’ll try Pagelime first

[carlgordon]

"pagelime" wrote:

Hi Carl,

PageLime’s probably a better bet for this as we support repeating regions, so you can duplicate, sort, and remove editable regions:
http://blog.pagelime.com/2009/12/01/rep … e-feature/

If you’re signed up, I’d be glad to help you set this up. Just shoot me an email to emil [at] pagelime.com.

– Emil

I have signed up and set up the repeatable regions but the problem I have now is that the area css is set to overflow:hidden and when I add a new slide it is hidden. Is there away to have a conditional stylesheet for Pagelime editing?

[pagelime]

Hi Carl,

I’m not sure how I missed this reply way back when – we’re usually super attentive to our google alerts :). I also have to configure my profile to send us emails when folks respond. Ooops.

You can have conditional CSS that only appears in the PageLime editor like this:
body.cms-page-editor-preview #yourelemntId

We basically add the class "cms-page-editor-preview" to the body while inside editor. We also have a JS variable you can use in your JavaScript so you can write conditional statements or disable animations while in PageLime:
window.isCmsPageEditorPreview

This variable will be set to true inside PageLime.

Shoot me an email to info [at] pagelime.com if you’re still having trouble. Though if you signed up for PageLime, I’m sure you’ve already had plenty of chats with Tom :). His welcome message and the fact he shows up in people’s Gmail chat usually mean that he’s always available.

Best,
Emil

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