• Can you kill off the hardcoded CSS refs in MiniCMS?

    By Joel Braverman 2 decades ago

    Hello, I have experimented with minicms a good bit, and spend a whole weekend trying to track down and remove all the hardcoded css stuff, which makes it very hard to truly customize this system.



    Yes, I know, I should learn more css, and I could probably overcome this by redesigning the webpages, but I'm trying to implement this system (for free) for some very simple people at a non-profit arts organization who have no clue. One example of a problem that occurs is if you attempt to creaate a table surrounding the entire form, some things just don't stay within the table. I think I have finally managed to kill off all the css in my copy of MiniCMS, and still have TinyMCE run, but it took me some time, and has caused some other problems.



    Here is my test system:



    http://www.internationalpoetrymuseum.org/members/jbrave/ipmcms.nsf



    Thanks, and thanks for the good work.



    Joel

    • Hard Coded CSS

      By Jerry Carter 2 decades ago

      Hi Joel,



      First, thanks for using the tool and providing some feedback. It's great to see it getting some use, especially in a NP way. People helping people… that's what it's all about. :-)



      I took a look real quick in version 1.02b and tried stripping all of the CSS out of the Style config doucment, then viewed source after saving it with {} instead of CSS markup. I didn't see any style tags or attributes on other tags. Did you see some CSS you couldn't find a place to edit in the source on your site? If you can post an example on your demo of what you saw not working right and post a link here I can take a look.



      However, the problem you are describing sounds like you might have used a float inside a table. Some browsers (at least in Quirks mode, which is what we are stuck with for the moment (See http://www.codestore.net/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20051122 for a way around this if you control the server and want to try standards mode)) will cause the overflow you are describing when a float is used that way. But, that is speculation on my part… we should look at the actual problem in action to determine the cause. I'm not sure if it's the template, but I did try to keep it clean so you could have full control through the config documents.



      Peace



      Jerry

      • thanks for responding!

        By Joel Braverman 2 decades ago

        Wow, I had little hope that I would get a response, but checking back in, I see you have also updated the app. I'll download your update and try it out, and let you know any issues I have. It will be good to get moving again with this project.



        I wouldn't mind joining the development group if you are open to it.



        Thanks,



        Joel

        • Next version, dev team

          By Jerry Carter 2 decades ago

          Hi Joel,



          If you're just getting started again, it might be worth waiting for v 1.5. I've already redone the HTML completely for better control with CSS and cleaner (bit more "valid") markup. I plan to release 1.5 soon and start on 1.9 (2.0 rc1) which will replace Tiny MCE with either FCK editor or something else. The integration and construction of Tiny MCE is too 'tight' for lack of a better word to be made more integrated with Mini CMS, hence the planned change.



          Anyway, I recommend holding out for 1.5 as with the changed markup, any CSS you finely tune now will be broken if you update to 1.5, which I'll try to make very clear to folks when it is released.



          As far as help, I'm open to it. Mark Barton and I are fairly swamped with other commitments. We need a prototype of FCK editor bulit in notes. If you're up for it, we really need that for v 2.0 so we can merge that with the new design of 1.5 and some other features on my to-do list (like a global preferences page for some other settings).



          Thanks!



          Jerry

          • FCK editor

            By Joel Braverman 2 decades ago

            Ok, Ill look into FCK and get back to you.



            Joel