Basic blocks question
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Hi, there,
I'm coming to C5 with the goal of making it so neither me or my clients have to do any plugging in of HTML elements in blocks, like I did with Drupal (aargh - don't ask).
Basically, I have some really nice HTML themes with Jquerey elements that have things like toggles, tabs, etc, and I want the end user to NOT have any html or even div tags to have to put in.
Is it at the block level, or would blocks that I create, allow me to create it so when I or a user logs in, only the fields I want to enter data in are shown, and ZERO html is required, and I can create an accordion block, tab block, etc, for things?
Is C5 blocks the way to create all of the parts of my site so I can work at the field level and have it ALL "pre-styled" with all of my css/html elements that I want to show without any sort of further input or coding once the creation of the content phase is ready?
Thanks, and have a good day, everyone,
- Paul
I'm coming to C5 with the goal of making it so neither me or my clients have to do any plugging in of HTML elements in blocks, like I did with Drupal (aargh - don't ask).
Basically, I have some really nice HTML themes with Jquerey elements that have things like toggles, tabs, etc, and I want the end user to NOT have any html or even div tags to have to put in.
Is it at the block level, or would blocks that I create, allow me to create it so when I or a user logs in, only the fields I want to enter data in are shown, and ZERO html is required, and I can create an accordion block, tab block, etc, for things?
Is C5 blocks the way to create all of the parts of my site so I can work at the field level and have it ALL "pre-styled" with all of my css/html elements that I want to show without any sort of further input or coding once the creation of the content phase is ready?
Thanks, and have a good day, everyone,
- Paul
Thanks a lot.
I have an HTML theme, not ported to C5.
I was going to do that myself.
And I wanted to make sure that I didn't have to put the various HTML/DIV/CSS tags in the various parts for the user to have to put those in, say, an FAQ page or something where I just wanted them to fill the question, and the answer, and have it fill automatically in the accordion-type of thing.
Is this something I can do at block level if I put my code from the HTML file with the Jquery stuff into the block itself?
I'm not too familiar with block coding yet, but I'm wanting everything to show up as fields that the end user can simply fill in, and they would pick what sort of block, like the accordion, tab, etc - and simply name the tab, put in the content, etc.
Is this something standard?
Or is it too much to ask for?
That wouldn't need an extreme amount of coding?
Thanks again, and have a good day,
- Paul
I have an HTML theme, not ported to C5.
I was going to do that myself.
And I wanted to make sure that I didn't have to put the various HTML/DIV/CSS tags in the various parts for the user to have to put those in, say, an FAQ page or something where I just wanted them to fill the question, and the answer, and have it fill automatically in the accordion-type of thing.
Is this something I can do at block level if I put my code from the HTML file with the Jquery stuff into the block itself?
I'm not too familiar with block coding yet, but I'm wanting everything to show up as fields that the end user can simply fill in, and they would pick what sort of block, like the accordion, tab, etc - and simply name the tab, put in the content, etc.
Is this something standard?
Or is it too much to ask for?
That wouldn't need an extreme amount of coding?
Thanks again, and have a good day,
- Paul
Your best bet with accordion or tab blocks is to find one that meets your functional requirements in the marketplace, then create your own template to style it.
Again, many of us learned block coding by seeing what Designer Content does.
There are also some great howtos and videos on block coding, block templates and creating themes.
You should start with just a play site on a dev system, play about and learn, then use that to start a real site from a position of some experience.
Again, many of us learned block coding by seeing what Designer Content does.
There are also some great howtos and videos on block coding, block templates and creating themes.
You should start with just a play site on a dev system, play about and learn, then use that to start a real site from a position of some experience.
If you use an existing theme you won't need any html at all. If you develop your own theme and your own styled block templates you will require some html and css on your part.
Also have a look at the free designer content addon.