I'm creating a Shopify store for a client who does not obviously know coding. He will need to update content on the website (and I have coded some pages with certain layouts (in the html part of the content) so when he types his content it often breaks our design)
As an alternative solution, I'm thinking of using the blog feature.
I know Shopify lets us create a page with only a certain blog, but what it does is show up in the URL - as a ...blog/cocktails.
That is not good for the end user, because I merely want it to be a page that calls the blog articles from this blog. I'm unable to find a way to do it.
I tried replacing blog.content with blog['cocktail'].content and etc..
but it didn't do anything.
Alternatively are there any suggestions how you can design a page and let clients add their own content just by typing (for instances where its a list of recipes for example)?
I think it would be best to create a custom page template same as blog page.
It will solve your all problems(i think) because first your url problem will be solved by it user has to just assign a template from backend.
Second one most important user can update its content from backend and it will not disturb your html.
If you still have problems just customise html and css.
I hope it will help you.
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Say I have a product website, like Amazon (this is not the case, but it will help me explain my point), and I have a URL for every single product (such as with Amazon)...
Do I need to copy-paste and modify an HTML file for every single individual product page, or is there a way to use a "model" on which I can base all my other pages without recopying the whole code and modifying a few things in each?
I've just started learning HTML and web development, so bare with me if I'm asking a stupid question.
It just seems odd to me that a million-page website should host a million+ individual, nearly identical, HTML files.
Thank you very much in advance.
P.S. I'm using Amazon's brand name as an example here, and am not affiliated with anything related to it. Thank you for understanding.
No, you do not need an HTML file for every single page on your website. While you could do that, it is becomes very infeasible to manage the bigger your site becomes. On most websites you would have the following components:
A front end - consists of HTML code and usually some sort of template engine with placeholders for your data
A backend - consists of your data store (usually a database).
There will also usually be some form of API and/or middleware between your front end and backend.
If you go to https://example.com/myproductid in your browser, your computer will send that request to the web server. The web server will then retrieve your data, load it into the correct template, and serve the page to you.
In traditional HTML and PHP only websites, you would have to reload the entire page each time you went to a new product. However, you can instead use a technique called Ajax to only update certain parts of a web page rather than reloading the entire page. That way you can just update the text, images, and links that are specific to the product, and the rest of the page would stay the same. (Note: Ajax originally used XML, modern implementations usually use JSON).
Ultimately, you will want to learn some JavaScript and then start looking into various web frameworks or libraries such as ReactJS.
Not you Can have only one page for all product, but you have to make it Dynamic.
Yes you need an HTML document for your each webpage, like for Home page, contact us page you need different HTML documents
I'm working on a site to help students with ACT prep, and I want to have a page where I can post explanations to questions that people submit. I want to be able to put a few tags on each post so that site visitors can click on or search whatever's relevant for them in the archives ("semicolons", "geometry", etc.) and all the relevant posts will come up, blog style. I'm very new to this, though, and I don't know how to do it or even what to search - when I search for tags I keep getting SEO recommendations, and that doesn't seem like the right thing.
Here's a solution (but it's not great)
It might be the only way to make what you want happen with a static HTML site.
You could, by hand, create pages that you fill with links to all of the posts that fit a certain category or "tag". For example, you could make a page that has links to all of your posts concerning geometry. Lets call this your archive page for geometry.
Then, when you include tags in a post, you would make each tag link to it's corresponding archive page.
Why do I say its not the best solution?
Virtually every blog that you see has a "back end" with a database that stores posts. When someone comes to your website and looks at a post, that posts data is inserted into a template and displayed to the user. You do not have to re-write the entire web page every time. Thing like the header, sidebar, footer, main page background etc are all in a template.
Having a database also lets you search the database and return relevant results. And a blog with a back end will typically let you write rules (or have them already written) that say, when you add a "tag" to a post, a link to that post should be automatically added to an archive page etc.
As far as I can tell you don't have database, so you'll just be linking static HTML pages. That means that every time you make a new post, you'll have to add a link to all of it's relevant archive pages by hand. Maybe you don't mind that now, but eventually it will be a nightmare to maintain.
I would strongly encourage you to look into a blogging platform like Wordpress to make your site. It will be more complicated to learn at first, but technology that's meant to do what you want it to do will ultimately be easier to use and maintain than technology that's simply meant to mark up a page.
http://juniorgoldreport.com/ - is the website I'm trying to create an RSS feed for and SEO better.
https://feedity.com/ - is what I'm using to see if I can create the feed, and then ultimately create an app.
A decent amount of my front page content is built via plugin that organize my post's making the maintenance of the website much easier for me, and allowing my employer to post content with ease as well.
Taking a look at the feed, it seems that the website cannot see anything.
From my understanding these post's are being displayed via a proper HTML format, the have h1 tags and proper div blocks and classes.
Do you guys have any suggestions as to how I should I could go about creating a proper feed? Is this a common issue within wordpress?
I'm currently building another website from scratch with a custom CMS (not via wordpress)
What are you suggestions?
RSS feeds are built into Wordpress. Take a look at this page from the Codex about feeds and how to access them.
As a primer you use http://juniorgoldreport.com/feed/ and get the RSS. If you want to access a specific category you'd use http://juniorgoldreport.com/category/[categoryslug]/feed. You can do the same thing with tags.
As for a non Wordpress site I can't say what the best way would be. There are many options.
Are iframes still widely in use today?
I am coding a site with divs, and I want everything to appear in the container div. Is it possible to do it without coding the header + nav into each page and have the content show at the exact same spot without using iframes?
I did a quick Google search and found a post that said it's not possible, but my site will have quite a bit of links.
As of right now, I am coding it with Tumblr, and the hashtags in the posts would act as links to a section of posts (Ex: #blog would retrieve every post under the "blog" link). What are some widely used ways to target links on a website?
If you are creating a multi-page website, it would be helpful to have the HTML content be generated dynamically or be built statically from template files. You don't want to manually update the same content across multiple HTML files.
Dynamic Pages
There are several options for dynamically generating HTML content depending on the software available to you. For example, PHP is a popular language for web development and is available through many web hosts.
Static Pages
It is possible to build static HTML documents from templates using something like Jekyll.
I'm not sure if I'm interpreting what you mean by "coding it with Tumblr" correctly or not, but I think you mean you're making a Tumblr site with their built-in HTML editing capability.
I think you'll have a very difficult time achieving the behavior you desire there. I think you're trying to create something resembling a single-page application. Tumblr probably just allows basic static HTML with little Javascript. The suggestion Kyle made about using PHP or something like that won't work because that code must be executed on a server, and Tumblr doesn't provide that capability to my knowledge.
If you really want this kind of functionality, you probably should get some paid web hosting and develop your web development skills. It's not a simple task, but it's fun!
Sorry if I underestimated you or anything. Just trying to read between the lines. It seems to me that you may be relatively new to web development given the content of your post, and I'm trying to nudge you in the right direction constructively.
I have a html template that has multiple pages like home, about us,contact,services,... and I want to convert it to a joomla template.I spent a lot of time for searching a good tutorial in google like this:
http://www.learning.asarayan.com/education-website-design/joomla-training2/334-convert-html-to-joomla-template
but non of them can answer my question: how can I convert ALL pages of html to joomla??I mean that I can convert one page for example home to joomla and define its position but what about other pages?
can anybody introduce me a COMPLETE tutorial???
sorry for my poor english
thanQ
You may start with tutorial posted at below address
http://www.tobacamp.com/tutorial/5-easy-steps-converting-html-template-to-joomla-template/
There is no automatic converter or out of the box solution for this, neither any tutorial to help you.
The best way to sort out the issue is by duplicating the template with the help of Artisteer. You can just recreate the template design and feel with Artisteer. Download link: www.artisteer.com/?p=downloads
You need to change your mindset from that for a static template to that for a dynamic template.
In joomla templates there is a base layout called index.php as you know. But that is very skeletal usually, is just defines some locations on a page, includes your css and javascript that is common to all of your pages. This gives your site a common look and feel and ensures a good user experience.
For your css for the individual pages you would normally just include that in the template.css file or similar.
Within the index file you will see places that say jdoc:inlcude. These are the places that actually include the layouts that provide detailed html for specific blocks on the page, typically there will be one component jdoc (there cannot be more than one) and many modules and module ones as well as some others.
The html for these documents is found in the components/com_componentname/view/viewname/tmpl folders.
To override the core layouts you use the template override system by placing same named files in the html folder of your template. You can look at the included templates to see how this works. There is pretty good documentation of this on the joomla documentation site.
http://docs.joomla.org/How_to_override_the_output_from_the_Joomla!_core will get you started.
Also this may be a point of confusion. In a CMS you strive to separate content from presentation. So if you enter the core information in the cms, i.e enter the contact information in com_contact, and enter most of your current content into individual articles you will start to see how it actually works. I would usually recommend first entering all of your static content into the appropriate places, then work on making the rendered pages look exactly the way you want them to.