I required to write a small web application that allow customer to select predefined layout template in html and be able to modify it. The application need to allow customer to add block text to pre defined area and images. The block texts need to be able to reorder based on customer need. eg. move up , move down or move to sidebar. THe complete layout will be able to convert to table layout and inline css due to email program doesn't like div & css. I don't know where should I looking for the information to make this happen, could anyone show me how to do this.
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Of course, I may be misunderstanding you. You might consider using a standard content management system such as:
linux based
joomla
Mambo
Windows based
DotNetNuke
Sharepoint
Those systems have the functionality you described built in with the added benefit that most of them are free and open source.
I'm not sure why someone downvoted you, but check out a javascript framework like script.aculo.us or Yahoo's YUI
Those will go a long way towards creating the interface you need. Also they have a lot of examples.
The Yahoo framework has an inplace html editor (I think that is what you are asking for). Another editing is the fckeditor.
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Does anyone know if I can integrate GrapeJS into my own website so clients could build their own websites using it? IF anyone has done this, how easy is it and are there downsides?
This question is pretty open ended, but I'll take a shot at it.
The short answer is yes, you can use Grapesjs to allow clients to make their own sites; however, the details matter.
Grapesjs by default doesn't know anything about your stack, website structure, metadata, etc. You will need to either supply plugins or implement those features yourself. I've worked on a project for a company that used Grapesjs to implement single page apps and I'll include just some of the tweaks we had to manage.
Hiding certain layers that only confuse average users.
Hiding pretty much all of the styling, and using traits to allow people to pick from some predefined styles.
Take the html, css on store and generate the final html page, and store it in our static serving folder on the server.
Implement a wrapping "App" component that has traits for the different metadata we want users to control (open graph metadata, title, etc)
and those are just the big things, I'm sure I am forgetting several small ones.
For your application, you'll also need to implement a custom trait for links / buttons that allows you to link from one "page" to another. As well as, a way to allow a user to pick which page to work on.
The long answer is Yes, but Grapesjs is only the starting point.
Yes you can.
However it is not straightforward.
If you want to build a Drag Drop Editor like GrapeJS Demo, here is the Source Code - https://github.com/artf/grapesjs-preset-webpage
You can see an implementation at https://codegres.org/dragdrop
Is there any best practices?
Say, I need to develop a flip-flop block with title/icon on front and text on reverse side.
And I want that user can simply insert that block in a grid. With params, I said above.
From here - I see only macros-way (simple). I mean - develop each block in macros, so umbraco-engine can paste it (macros) to grid "from-a-box". But, I don't believe it, I can not even create a folder from backoffice for macro!
Harder way - dive into custom property editor, many setups, many moves. And I don't sure - can I paste result into grid?
I see, that people talks about some great package that called "ARCHETYPE", but project is closed for now... Should anyone bet on that?
Which way is right?
If I understand correctly, you are using Umbraco Grid and want to create a custom grid edtior. If that is the case, I would recommend you looking into LeBlender. It basically enables you to create grid types in the same way you make document types, including templates.
A local nonprofit needs a new website. It's a very basic website that simply presents information, nothing past basic HTML/CSS is needed to make the actual site.
The marketing manager would like to be able to edit text sections (upcoming events, jobs) regularly. How would I go about creating the site in HTML/CSS and then allowing them to edit just the text in those sections in an easy way? is that even possible, or would this require more advanced knowledge of actual programming/database languages?
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No, you can't edit the site with just HTML and CSS. Even if you have JavaScript, you'll need server side code (ASP.NET, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Node.js etc) to store the changed text, since HTML, CSS, and JS run on the client (excluding server side JavaScript based frameworks).
The easy solution is to just use simple HTML and tell him to directly edit the HTML. If he's just a little bit technical, an hour or two of explanation of how HTML works might be enough to get you going.
A CMS solution that is prebuilt and has simple menus for editing things might work nicely. There's plenty of various options to suit your needs.
Otherwise, you can either build a custom site. A custom site that reads text from simple text files might be all it takes (Markdown might be preferable to plain text.) Of course, you can scale it up if you want until you've basically built your own CMS.
You can't do that.
HTML pages are stored on a server (which is just a computer accessible by other computers via an internet connection), when you type in an address in your browser's address bar it sends a request to a server to fetch the corresponding HTML page. Then this page is displayed in your browser.
Now, say you managed to change a text in your browser somehow using HTML/CSS, but you still need to find a way to send these changes back to the server so that these updated pages are accessible by other remote browsers, and the only way of doing this is to use server side languages. They are not really that difficult, you can quickly learn that.
You might like to take a look at this sourceforge project.
This is a file-based system that uses conventional HTML for the webpages, but allows online editing with CKEditor. Requirements are Apache 2 and php 5.3 or later.
There is a testdrive available.
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I'm new to Go. I'm understanding the basics more and more but now I'm trying to learn how to interface the code with HTML.
My simple scenario is that I have a single web page with a list that's created by Go fetching information from a database, then building the html page from a group of templates. All I want is to make a simple list that will allow me to somehow mark it as complete/done when the <div> is clicked or something. Also, to be able to fully delete a "row" in my webpage list, a div basically.
So my list will indicate something is complete (I assume I must use Go to alter the css) and delete an item (completely remove that block of html). And remember, these items are stored in a database, so I must be able to identify the specific item.
Any help, ideas, resources, pseudocode, pointers would be greatly appreciated!
In web development, there are two "ends" where code executes; the browser and the server, aka. the front-end and the back-end.
A "click" happens in the browser and will execute code in the browser. That "browser-code" in turn may or may not contact the server for additional information and then render that information to the browser.
That means; the server has no control over what happens in the browser* and vice versa. That's the basics of web development.
Go is a language good for building servers. Javacript is the language that most browsers understand. What you need is Javascript, not Go.
* this is not entirely true but good enough as a base to start learning.
I use about a dozen different templates for several different vertical markets that I customize for CLients. I add custom Headers, footers and links and develop a color pallet and font used based on their preferences.
I would like to have a form that updates their own css files after the Client logs in and also offer a upload for their own custom logos, headers footers etc, these could be in html or jpg,png format, to be included in their sites.
Does anyone know of a program or scripts that can do this, or do I need to write it myself.
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AFAIK there is an abundance of Content Management solutions that would include various flavours of this functionality, but you're looking for it in isolation. My suspicion is that you're going to have to write it yourself.
Just to clarify: when the user logs in to your application, you want it to draw specific style elements based on preferences set for their account (or for general preferences set against their organisation)?
It sounds like you want to store all this information in a database and have styles inserted into the HTML on page render. If you want something that would actually create a stylesheet and write it to the filesystem, as I said before, it's likely that you'll have to build the functionality to your specific needs.
This type of thing is in the domain of a Content Management System. So, you have a couple of choices.
Try to integrate your work into an existing CMS like drupal, joomla, DotnetNuke, etc (depending on what language you are coding in); or,
Build your own.
You can certainly leverage existing components such as a rich text editor (like the one you used to post the question) in combination with writing the files to a DB or straight to the file system.
Either way, you have a fair amount of work ahead of you.
try something with php, Maybe a script like this?