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GolfMad
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CMS editors and accessibility - 4/17/2008 5:52:18
Well I have been using ContentSeed for clients sites for a while now and genrally rate it but always wondered why the font size when viewed in the editor was never the same as in the real browser.
Figured out that the editor uses size1, size2 etc and when it writes the code converts it to pt. Problem being with this is that if browser enlarge their fonts none of the text enlarges.
It does not render EWD's 'x-small' accurately(so perhaps it does not understand it), it enlarges it.
The text that I put in there originally can be enlarged in the browser, as it has no font size and uses my stylesheet and of course understands 'x-small 'as used by EWD.
I have tried using ems at .7 and great in the browser but it goes very small in the editor.
I did see a recomendation here for Snippetmaster but that has exactly the same font editor size1 etc (note after posting-just seen that snippet master actually writes the code as xx-small).
Does anyone know of a good CMS editor that does this properly please, and I mean one that allows you give editing areas on your exisitng pages, not full CMS template versions where you have to customise appearances.
Regards
Phil
< Message edited by GolfMad -- 4/17/2008 6:00:20 >
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Tailslide
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RE: CMS editors and accessibility - 4/17/2008 7:09:52
I tend to use WordPress as a CMS but I don't allow clients to mess with the font-size.
They can use headings which are all pre-set in the stylesheet if they need larger text for a heading.
Other than that - can't think of a reason for messing with the normal text's font-size which is all laid out in the stylesheet.
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GolfMad
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RE: CMS editors and accessibility - 4/17/2008 9:18:28
So does WordPress integrate into an exisiting site then so it can be setup to allow clients just to edit the middle content contained within a Div?
I thought it was a software package that you have to use to build a site.
Thanks
Phil
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RE: CMS editors and accessibility - 4/17/2008 14:03:20
No WordPress is a framework rather than an add-on to an existing site (I think people do use it on existing sites as a blog maybe on a different directory but I tend to use it as a CMS so I use it for the whole site).
You can certainly carve up an existing design into a WordPress site which would then allow clients to add, edit and delete pages. It's not like a Dreamweaver Template sort of thing where you add editable areas into an existing area. Snippetmaster does that - it works ok, I don't love it but don't hate it either.
With WordPress you'd take your existing layout and chop it up into bits (header, footer, sidebar etc) and then WordPress re-assembles it in hopefully the right order with the content that the client has added into the database via the admin panel. The advantage is that as long as the design you're using is nicely coded (preferably CSS) then WordPress doesn't mess with it and will generally produce nice code from it's WYSIWYG editor unlike, say Joomla which still has tables in some places.
WordPress isn't the answer to everything despite the fact that I go on about it a lot - it's really useful for someone like me who likes the whole clean code, CSS thing but still wants to have a simple option when it comes to a CMS for clients. If it was just a single page they wanted to edit (say for a news page) then I'd code it myself using PHP and MySQL - less for the client to learn, less for them to mess up. But if they want to be able to edit the whole site - WordPress is a good solution.
I always thought it was only good for simple CMSs but, I've recently done a site which is horrendously complex in structure and still used WordPress and it's coped fine.
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