Help with wysiwyg editor vs. html
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Hello!
So I built a site by copying in my html, now I need to use the wysiwyg editor....is this possible? I don't want to have to reconstruct the site, how do I turn on the wysiwyg editor? sorry if this is confusing. Basically, when a page is put into edit mode, the html code pops up instead of the wysiwyg editor. any suggestions would be helpful. thanks
So I built a site by copying in my html, now I need to use the wysiwyg editor....is this possible? I don't want to have to reconstruct the site, how do I turn on the wysiwyg editor? sorry if this is confusing. Basically, when a page is put into edit mode, the html code pops up instead of the wysiwyg editor. any suggestions would be helpful. thanks
Never Mind! lol I figured it out.
Hi ! You were lucky to figure it out. How did you do ? I have the same issue...
Hi ! You were lucky to figure it. How did you do ? I have the same issue...
When you say "copying in my html" what do you mean exactly? Did you just take your complete static html pages and put those in as theme templates? Or did you take the html and paste it into an "HTML" block through the Concrete5 editing interface?
If you did the former, well it's not really possible to just take any HTML site and automatically "CMS-ize" it -- instad you need to create page templates that contain the HTML/CSS for the overall theme/look of the site along with common design elements that appear across every page (e.g. header, sidebar, footer). Then you need to replace the editable regions of that template with some php code -- check out this how-to for example:
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/designers/make-a-the...
After you've done that you need to put back in the content by adding pages to the site and adding blocks to those pages with the content you carved out from the original files.
OR do you just mean that you pasted in "HTML" blocks into your site? If that's the case, you can use "Content" blocks and click the little "HTML" icon in the editor toolbar to let you paste that in directly.
If you did the former, well it's not really possible to just take any HTML site and automatically "CMS-ize" it -- instad you need to create page templates that contain the HTML/CSS for the overall theme/look of the site along with common design elements that appear across every page (e.g. header, sidebar, footer). Then you need to replace the editable regions of that template with some php code -- check out this how-to for example:
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/designers/make-a-the...
After you've done that you need to put back in the content by adding pages to the site and adding blocks to those pages with the content you carved out from the original files.
OR do you just mean that you pasted in "HTML" blocks into your site? If that's the case, you can use "Content" blocks and click the little "HTML" icon in the editor toolbar to let you paste that in directly.
Right! that is what I figured out. One must use the interface to copy and paste in the html.
