I am currently revamping my own website, however, I have tried dotclear and chyrp, both are very good.
However, after many attempts trying to make the bog appear only in a table, I am giving up.
My aim is to have a blog inside of a table as shown in the image
http://i55.tinypic.com/2rfbtrn.jpg
Does anyone know how I can achieve that or know any other easier way or even another blog engine that allows me to do that?
Thank you.
Regads.
Of course, I don’t have the technical details of your web application, but one way would be to place your blog inside an IFRAME (either instead of a table, or place the IFRAME inside the table).
If you want to do thing properly (not using an iframe), it is not possible at all. The reason is that a CMS generate a complete page, with a header and internal link.
My suggestion is to do it the other way: adapt the CMS to display a menu on the left and a title above.
In dotclear, this can be done easily by doing a template. Even better: your goal might be achievable by using some dotclear theme and some extensions like "simplemenu".
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This might sound like a very strange question but I'm wondering if it's possible to take only a small part of an original website and use that part on a new website without having the direct access to the database?
The site displays latest entries of items added to a database and it contains a lot of stuff that is unnecessary which I want to get rid off. The new site should supposedly only display the div with the id "content" and everything in it. Here is the site: link to site
I've tried to inspect the elements on the site and copy the html code but the problem is that it converts all the added items to string instead of loading it directly from the database.
The reason why I want to learn how to do this is nothing more than an interest in how it can be done that could be helpful later on.
What you can do is two things. If you want to get the data from a website that doesn't provide an API you can write an HTML parser to grub the desired data. Note that this is likely to break in the future, if the original site makes any changes to the html.
If you want to display a part of the website as it is you can use an iframe to embed the original site to your site and then use js to hide what you don't want to show. See here for more info.
I am currently in an internship and making a website for someone. I have nearly finished the website and they would like a way to easily edit the website without messing around too much with code. They have no development team and once my internship is over, obviously they'll be stuck and they would like a way to edit the content on the website. How can I go about doing this? I mentioned a WordPress site to them but they didn't like the sound of that. Are there any other ways in which I can allow them to have this functionality?
Cheers
You can either create a Wordpress-similar, with a login, and while navigating through pages they would have options normal users do not have (e.g: delete, etc).
Or you could create an admin dashboard, where there would be every settings.
I think the second one is the best option for you, as it doesn't require you to modify any pages already created, and you will not have to adapt the style of your website to those supplementary options which would be shown on every pages if you used the first option.
Edit:
Or you could have all the content of the website in files, so that they simply need to edit the files to change the content. Even though I think option 2 is better, this one is a lot simpler to put in place.
I have a simple html/css-only static website on which I would like to add a blog. Comments and RSS aren't necessary.
Now, how do I do that, without having to write all my entries in pure html?
My website consists of a vertical menu and an area to the right of it, where all the content goes on each page. I would like a blog inside that area on the blog page, so a blog on a separate page with its own layout is not what I'm looking for.
Googling this doesn't really help me much since the majority of the hits are on sites offering blog services.
Thanks in advance, I hope I'm not being too difficult. Please leave some feedback on my question if you think there are things I should have tried out before asking.
If i understand what you want the answer is that ist is not possible in pure html and css. With only Html and css you can not make a blog (if you dont want to edit the source everytime you write an entry and have to make a new file for each entry and so on).
You need some code (php or so) that is able to store and load the entrys into your site.
Html and css are not meant to make things working. With Html you define the elements so that they are structed and then with css you "style" your work. But for the task of a blog (i think you want an editor for the text on the site, the ability to edit, delete, more than one site and so on) you need something like php or aps.net that is able to "interact".
What we plan to do is to display a particular page from another site on our webpage (not really a whole page but it's more like a box within a page with job listings on it). However, I heard iFrame is no longer advisable to use.
Is it still okay in this instance (only 1 page and 1 iFrame)? Or are there other alternatives?
#Breezer is right in the fact that you want to use iframes as little as possible for as little of your content as possible(for SEO purposes and the fact you aren't hosting the content, so it could go down at anytime). Aside from this, I doubt the page you are trying to display is being rendered in a way that you want to display on your site anyways. Being a third party site you can use something like curl (server side) to screen scrape the data and parse out what you'd like to display on your site. Or, if you're looking for a client side alternative, you can use YQL to grab that third party information and then render as you may.
Here's a great tutorial on YQL, and doing exactly what you want, from #Nettuts (http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/quick-tip-cross-domain-ajax-request-with-yql-and-jquery/)
Hope that gives you some options.
well it's fine using iframes to show another external webbpage, what's bad is building an entire website around a iframe because that will be hard to search engines to interrupt what your website is about therefore rank it lower in the search results
I just did a quick search for my question and couldn't find anything directly on point.
I'm still very new to HTML and was wondering if someone could tell me how I could add a picture to my website and set the code so that if I click on it, it enlarges the picture in a new window.
I'm going to be adding around 600+ pics to my website so I was also wondering if there's a way to write the code once and have it apply to all the pics I add.
Thanks in advance,
- Danny B.
There's many many ways in which you could do this. The basic HTML for inserting an image with a link to a new window will be:
<a href="enlarged.html" target="_blank">
<img src="photos/photo-name.jpg" />
</a>
But it is a fair bit more complicated if you want to be able to dynamically display a large number of photos. If you want to code this yourself, you'll want to look into using something like PHP to output the HTML code automatically for 600+ images. Then instead of pointing the link for each to a new page, you might want to consider having the images load in a cool way, such as a javascript lightbox/colorbox some of the other answers suggest.
One possible alternative solution might be to look for some pre-created photo album script. I don't have any experience of these so I'll let someone else make some suggestions on that.
There are several ways to do this, but I'm assuming you'll have a simple site with lots of images on one page, and you'd like the images to zoom open "in a cool way".
Check out this: http://colorpowered.com/colorbox/
... click on View Demonstration and then see the various photo handling options.
This needs just some basic HTML and minimally configured Jquery. Very simple to use and produces a nice effect.
Google around using the keyword lightbox. Most of the solutions are ready-to-use Javascripts. Just include once, assign some IDs/classes, execute during onload and that's it. I personally have good experiences with Lightbox2 and jQuery Lightbox plugin.
I decided to go w/ target="_blank" -- Lightbox2 seems like it'd be great, but I'm really not sure how to use it and where to put all the code. The instructions I've found for it still assume the user has some standard knowledge in the field, that of which I do not currently possess. So, I'll stick to the target/blank approach until I can get more familiar w/ coding and then I'll upgrade to Lightbox.
Once again, I want to say thanks to everyone. You guys always respond quickly and accurately.
With much appreciation,
- Danny B
The simplest way would be to add a link to it, and set the target attribute to target="_blank". The link should point to the image itself. This would regularly open a new tab though, if you want a whole new window, you should tryhref="javascript:window.open('myimage.png','_blank','toolbar=no,menubar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes')",which would open a new, standalone window. If you're looking for fade/resize effects and such, try one of the other answers posted.