Modifying CSS is a total pain and is buggy - C5
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The only place I see to edit CSS is in the themes. When you edit the CSS in most cases you have to override with !important. It would be much much better to be able to directly edit the theme CSS within the theme area.
Also if you try and stretch the CSS box it moves the OK button out of view and you can't save your changes. Working inside this tiny box is a real pain.
Chris
Also if you try and stretch the CSS box it moves the OK button out of view and you can't save your changes. Working inside this tiny box is a real pain.
Chris
I appreciate your response. I realize that I could make a custom theme. Yet this still doesn't address how difficult it is to modify CSS in the tiny little box and the bug.
I come from the Wordpress world and it is very very easy to edit the CSS for a theme. What you provide for themes is very very basic, that only a client who knows very little web knowledge would even find useful.
I think most users don't want to FTP into a site every time they need to make CSS changes to a theme. But maybe there is an addon for this. I haven't searched, but this would be a great feature to add for advanced users.
I come from the Wordpress world and it is very very easy to edit the CSS for a theme. What you provide for themes is very very basic, that only a client who knows very little web knowledge would even find useful.
I think most users don't want to FTP into a site every time they need to make CSS changes to a theme. But maybe there is an addon for this. I haven't searched, but this would be a great feature to add for advanced users.
Hi Chris,
Many themes' colors, etc can be customized in a few moments by going to Dashboard > Themes and then clicking the "Customize" button. You'll be able to adjust whatever the developer has set up as a customizable style, as easily as using a color picker. Not all themes include this feature, but most have at least a couple properties set up like this-- Greek Yogurt, for instance has about a dozen. That's one easy way to make changes to your whole site's look with just a few clicks. Otherwise, you can get more specific and add styles to blocks and areas using the Design feature.
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/editors-guide/in-page-editin...
I really can't speak for what WordPress is up to these days, but concrete5 was very much designed as a building material for website developers to use while building sites for their clients. While we strive to make it as easy as possible to use from a site editor's perspective, there is often still some groundwork that needs to be done by developer, in order to make everything perfect in a project. Hope that helps you get started.
Many themes' colors, etc can be customized in a few moments by going to Dashboard > Themes and then clicking the "Customize" button. You'll be able to adjust whatever the developer has set up as a customizable style, as easily as using a color picker. Not all themes include this feature, but most have at least a couple properties set up like this-- Greek Yogurt, for instance has about a dozen. That's one easy way to make changes to your whole site's look with just a few clicks. Otherwise, you can get more specific and add styles to blocks and areas using the Design feature.
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/editors-guide/in-page-editin...
I really can't speak for what WordPress is up to these days, but concrete5 was very much designed as a building material for website developers to use while building sites for their clients. While we strive to make it as easy as possible to use from a site editor's perspective, there is often still some groundwork that needs to be done by developer, in order to make everything perfect in a project. Hope that helps you get started.
Which theme are you working with? Each theme from our Marketplace is coded a little differently, since they're packaged (if not totally authored) by individual developers. Whether or not you'll need to use !important to make a class work is really a matter of how the page styles are coded; some themes are intended to be more flexible and responsive than others.
If you're working with the core concrete5 themes, please know that while those work great for a lot of site owners and editors, more advanced users with html and css experience might have an easier time starting from scratch-- using an existing static HTML template or even just a design or comp.
There's a number of great how-tos and screencasts that help explain the process:
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/designers/make-a-the...
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/designers/making-a-t...
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/designers/converting...
You also might be interested in some of our Marketplace themes in the "Framework" category-- these are intended to be a good starting off point for folks who want to built their own custom themes. Check out the various category filtering options on the right sidebar of this page:
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/themes/...