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Hey guys we want to create a informational type site for a very precise domain of knowledge, we want it to be in wiki like form. Whereby I mean the informational for each entity of knowledge is created by the users, and it works like wikipedia in that sense. Are there are web libraries we can use for a out of the box solution. WE don't want to spend much time programming this.
Thanks alot :)
Wikipedia is based on the open source Mediawiki system.
It's easy to use and install, but not very friendly for complex administration (especially regarding rights). And the editor is fine for engineers, not for everybody.
For other solutions, I suggest you google for "wiki" : that's the generic term describing this kind of system. Or "CMS" for something a little wider.
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I have built a static website for a friend and now he came back asking me to convert it to Joomla, I looked it up online and stumbled on some tutorials, but those tutorials weren't very helpful as they seem to convert home page only.
I've managed to create the home page and converted the main parts to modules .
Now how do I go about inserting the other pages into Joomla?
Appreciate your help
You probably want to create the old pages as individual articles and then create a menu item for each page pointing to the coresponding article.
Agree wih Bakual, assuming you are on Joomla 3, just take each of your pages into an aricle. To start you can just leave them all uncategorized, then later if it makes sense you can move them around into a more complex structure. Of course if you need a contact form etc make that instead.
Have you logged into the administrator? The Absolute Beginner's Guide on http://docs.joomla.org is not bad. I don't want to self promote but you could also Google "Working with and Creating Content for Your Joomla! Site"
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In professional development different people make code for web applications and HTML for views. First are programmers and second are HTML markup developer with basic programming skills, but with good skills of Photoshop/etc.
I have asked some of HTML developers: did they try Haml? I showed it to them and they replied that it's an awful tool.
For Whom is this tool? For HTML developers? Or just for programmers who have to make HTML on their own without HTML developers?
What is the advantage of using it for HTML developers?
The Wikipedia entry for Haml does a good job of explaining the problems that Haml tries to solve. In short, it allows for more readable, less verbose markup by enforcing indentation, reducing repetition, etc.
It's probably more useful for a programmer who's using it inside of a framework like Rails, which will automatically take care of converting the Haml markup to HTML in the context of a web application.
A designer working with HTML and Photoshop might not find it worth the extra complexity it would add to their workflow.
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Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I just got a job developing a site in French. Is there anything I should do or do differently that I wouldn't do if I were coding an English site?
There are a few typographic specialties in French that a well-designed HTML page should handle somehow, such as special spacing rules around punctuation characters. They are somewhat tricky to handle with just HTML and CSS. See my page HTML authoring in French.
I don't think you have anything to worry about with regards design / look n feel.
You'll have a lot to worry about with regards content though.
Date formatting
Currency formats
Thousand separator and other stuff
I'm assuming you aren't saddled with the task of working on the content as well.
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I am working in rails, and a looking for some resources to design visually pleasing HTML forms. I can write the CSS, so even examples would be great.
Any recommendations?
There are many resources out there, you can just google for well looking forms or something like this.
There are also javascript libraries which makes customized selects/checkboxes etc -for example a project called uniform - check it out, you might like it. It provides you tools to customize it.
You can try Gravity Forms for WordPress then you never need to hand code the html and it inserts unique id's and matching classes in the HTML. This means the sky is the limit when it comes to styling your form.
If you are not using WordPress, here is a nice tutorial for designing form layouts.
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Is there some sort of HTML designer (WYSIWYG) available that allows me to draw the page and results with a page using DIVs / CSS and not TABLE design?
See drawter.com you can create layout in div css format.
MS Visual Web Developer Express, its free and allows full WYSIWYG and code view HTML/CSS editing for pure (X)HTML or ASP.Net sites.
http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/#Visual_Studio_2010_Express_Downloads
http://www.microsoft.com/express/Express-2010/
I'm not entirely sure of what you are asking of but if you are looking for a wysiwyg(what you see is what you get) editor Adobe Dreamweaver is probably the best but it's rather expensive. There are ton's of free wysiwyg`s however I don't use them so I only know of Dreamweaver.