I have been searching for a while now on how can i modify the Discussion board look'n feel. E.g. Styles Css Html in views etc...
My client wants to have the discussion functionnalities on his site, but he wants to change significantly the look'n feel of the Discussion, obviously the layouts and style of the view ...
I was wondering if there is any way to do this since i am using a list based on discussion board template created from Visual studio...
Any help will be appreciated ...
Your solution can be using JsLink (new in SharePoint 2k13) it is an alternative to xsl you can have your board list and customize your display template as far as you want to...
Hope this helps
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I have just begun my Typo3 journey. There is not much typo3 content available over the internet. I have gone through its documentation. As far as I have understood it, the ideal way of creating a website (frontend) is using content elements from backend and customising it according to our need in code (using CSS).
My Question is how can I do so? How can I find the code of all my used content elements so that I can use my own CSS to style it according to my need?
Or is there any other ideal or professional way of creating a webpage that mostly developers use?
Please please help me with my questions.
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE :)
I suggest to look into one of the following 2 extensions which allow to create content element types within a nice backend module:
https://extensions.typo3.org/extension/mask
https://extensions.typo3.org/extension/dce
Both come with a manual and it is afterwards easy to adopt the based default templates and apply the HTML you need
for the page structure I suggest to use something like https://jweiland.net/typo3/typo3-template-version-11.html or the bootstrap package https://www.bootstrap-package.com/ which also come with various custom content elements already
if you are german speaking you can also take a look at the video tutorials of wolfgang wagner which can be found at https://wwagner.net/
The base frontend structure of a TYPO3 websites is:
page templates (usually contain generic elements such as header,
footer, navigation.
page templates can be devided into serveral sections if needed
content elements which are than displayed in this sections / in
templates
The core already ships a set of common content elements and supplies basic CSS styling which you can override and adjust.
I prefer to check what kind of content elements I might need in order to get the website layout done and then build those custom elements. This gives full control over the HTML markup output and I can write my custom CSS specifically for my markup. This approach might need more initial work and requires a deeper understanding of the system, but often pays off in the end.
But if you want to see quick results as a beginner the approaches Georg mentioned with Mask or the bootstrap package are perfectly fine.
Bit of a vague question. Apologies.
I have a prototype CMS I've been working on for fun. It's completely written in ASP.NET MVC.
It works on the principle of "widgets". Little blocks of functionality that can be dragged and dropped on the page, you get the idea.
I have added a few simple blogging widgets which work well, one of them is the "Latest Posts" widget that goes on the front page. While the function of the widget i.e. listing the latest posts is standard, the mark-up it generates may not be. I don't want to force my users into a set in stone mark-up.
I was wondering if it would be possible to use some form of templating perhaps T4? I have not delved into it deeply but it looks fairly complex, so not sure it would even be possible. What I would like is for the end-user to be able to doctor a small template file to change the markup generated for each blog post list item.
If someone knows of any blogs/tutorials that may get me started I'd be very grateful. Googling for custom T4 templates brings up changes to the EditorFor templates that I'm sure everyone is familiar with.
Thanks,
Ian
Best idea I've ever seen on this would be to use standard ASP.NET templates and dynamically render them. You don't have to invent a programming language nor tooling and the hard parts are done for you. This perhaps could be easy to do with the new razor view syntax I'd suspect.
I downloaded GraffitiCMS the other day(now open source and free), and like a lot of what I see, but what I really want to use it for, is to add CMS capabilities to an existing asp.net database/application.
Without getting bogged down with all the details of my app, can someone give me the basic 'approach' that should be taken to add custom content to Graffiti; content that won't be a 'post'?
I've seen for example, how to add custom-widgets to Graffiti - basically inherit from the widget class, compile your dll and plop it into the correct directory and it becomes part of the system. Is there a way to do something similar for the main content areas?
For simplicity sake, pretend I have a non-graffiti database with gig's of data that I want to display on the website using standard asp.net grid's and forms. I realize I could just go in and hack apart the source code to integrate my existing app, but that is likely not the correct approach.
Not looking for a complete solution her, just a pointer and what areas to investigate...thanks.
If you check out the latest source of Graffiti (or the 1.3 branch that was recently created), support was added to put widgets anywhere you want on any page. There is a new chalk function - $macros.Widget - that provides you with this ability. Dan Hounshell wrote a blog post on how you can use this new functionality:
http://danhounshell.com/blog/graffiti-cms-1-3-add-a-widget-anywhere-in-a-view-with-new-widget-macro/
If you're looking for something different than that, just let me know - we're working to make Graffiti even better for situations just like you are currently in.
What we have done to be able to integrate Graffiti CMS with our current ASP.NET projects is to create a post in Graffiti called "hidden" and then with our standard .ASPX pages we call a class in our Render Override that pulls the "hidden" post (ie: site.com/hidden/) and uses the header and footer to wrap the Graffiti theme around our custom .ASPX page. We use some HTML comments in the "hidden" post to be able to parse the header and the footer. It is kind of a hack, but has worked out really well for us.
I think you're trying to put the cart before the horse - depending on the size and amount of functionality, I would be looking to rebuild it after learning the development platform of my CMS system of choice.
I'm pretty much in the same boat right now. I have avoided Graffiti because I have to learn "Chalk" (whatever that is) and Umbraco (using XSLT for layouts is retarded). So far, this leaves me with Sitefinity at the top of my list and Telerik have just pulled the free version!
I may end up grabbing a very basic CMS which is easier to customize. I know this doesn't directly answer your question, but it may give you some food for thought :-)
I know this has been asked before, but I am hoping that there are more options available now.
I am looking for a nice simple image editing plugin that I can include in my document imaging system.
It doesn't need serious photoshop type functionality, just the basics like zooming,cropping,resizing,flipping and rotating.
Doesn't have to be a freebie component, but I would prefer there to not be runtime licenses because there will e multiple implementations of our product.
btw - website is in ASP.Net
Thanks
Craig
We use CuteEditor from www.cutesoft.net, its a great html editor and has a good uploading and image editing, I think these can be used outside the editor: see: http://cutesoft.net/forums/9329/ShowPost.aspx
I'm building a custom web part for SharePoint and I'm trying to use the default styles so when people theme the site, it will theme with it.
I've found a couple of decent sites that show the different styles like:
http://www.sharepointcustomization.com/resources/tipstricks/wss_cssguide.htm
but I'm looking for something that has better examples. Specifically, I'm looking for a good table style that I can add.
Does anyone know of a site that shows the different SharePoint CSS styles with examples?
Thanks.
Heather Solomon's blog is the multimate reference for Sharepoint 2007 CSS (the link you posted is for SharePoint 2003). You can also use developer toolbar to find the CSS class you are looking for.
If you are doing a custom webpart, consider SPGridView for your tables, I believe it will use the standard sharepoint List table styles: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.webcontrols.spgridview.aspx