How many rich text editors would one use, for example, if a site has many different areas of editable text on a single page? For example, I have about 4 rows, each of which divided into 2 columns. So, 8 'areas' on one page, each editable. Would you use one richtext editor in the content area and stick all your <div>s and <span>s etc etc and everything in it (via html input) to get the structure and content (which would be ruined by the client if they accidentally deleted a <div> or something trying to change some wording around). Or, would you leave the structure to the template and use 8 separate rich text editors? Or another way?
I'm just trying to get something standard into my structure (I know each site is different) but I think it's very important to have good foundations.
Hope that makes sense. Also, why are the rich text editors not labelled in the content section? I have no idea which one is which without flicking between my published page and my umbraco content area.
I wouldn't go for the example of building up the layout inside og the richtext editor. That's just not very durable in my mind.
You could make it work with several richtext editor, but as the richtext editor is a pretty large (physical on the screen - it
takes a lot of space) data type it's a good idea not to have a lot of
them on the same tab in my mind. So you could divided them into different tabs to make it more userfriendly. You could have a content-tab, right content-tab, left content-tab, footer etc.
Maybe you can also consider if some of the content can be written into a textbox, or even a textstring if it's just something like a name, slogan, title, author, punch line etc.
Oops almost forgot - the issue you talks about with the hidden label, can be solved as well of course.
You need to go into the Developer section, and find the Richtext Editor under the Data Types-folder. When you have clicked the RTE, you need to find a checkbox called something like "Show label" and check this box. Then the label and description will be visible next to the richtext editor.
Doh! I forgot about being able to add tabs, that might clear my content section up a bit, it's about a mile long at the moment to scroll down. And thanks for the info to show labels, that's brilliant. Thanks :)
No problem Sam. Yeah, the tabs are a very good way of structuring all of the different properties on your document types. Not only for the users that uses the system on a daily basis, but also for you, the developer, when you need to maintain the site in the future.
Good descriptions as well as titles on each property is also a must, if you want to give the users the last 5%. Short and precise descriptions of each property, can save you a ton of e-mails/calls from the customer, who can't remember what each of the fields are used to. Just saying ;)
Template structure and content
Hi everyone,
How many rich text editors would one use, for example, if a site has many different areas of editable text on a single page? For example, I have about 4 rows, each of which divided into 2 columns. So, 8 'areas' on one page, each editable. Would you use one richtext editor in the content area and stick all your <div>s and <span>s etc etc and everything in it (via html input) to get the structure and content (which would be ruined by the client if they accidentally deleted a <div> or something trying to change some wording around). Or, would you leave the structure to the template and use 8 separate rich text editors? Or another way?
I'm just trying to get something standard into my structure (I know each site is different) but I think it's very important to have good foundations.
Hope that makes sense. Also, why are the rich text editors not labelled in the content section? I have no idea which one is which without flicking between my published page and my umbraco content area.
Thanks :)
Sam.
Hi Sam.
I wouldn't go for the example of building up the layout inside og the richtext editor. That's just not very durable in my mind.
You could make it work with several richtext editor, but as the richtext editor is a pretty large (physical on the screen - it takes a lot of space) data type it's a good idea not to have a lot of them on the same tab in my mind. So you could divided them into different tabs to make it more userfriendly. You could have a content-tab, right content-tab, left content-tab, footer etc.
Maybe you can also consider if some of the content can be written into a textbox, or even a textstring if it's just something like a name, slogan, title, author, punch line etc.
/Kim A
Oops almost forgot - the issue you talks about with the hidden label, can be solved as well of course.
You need to go into the Developer section, and find the Richtext Editor under the Data Types-folder. When you have clicked the RTE, you need to find a checkbox called something like "Show label" and check this box. Then the label and description will be visible next to the richtext editor.
/Kim A
Thanks Kim,
Doh! I forgot about being able to add tabs, that might clear my content section up a bit, it's about a mile long at the moment to scroll down. And thanks for the info to show labels, that's brilliant. Thanks :)
Sam.
No problem Sam. Yeah, the tabs are a very good way of structuring all of the different properties on your document types. Not only for the users that uses the system on a daily basis, but also for you, the developer, when you need to maintain the site in the future.
Good descriptions as well as titles on each property is also a must, if you want to give the users the last 5%. Short and precise descriptions of each property, can save you a ton of e-mails/calls from the customer, who can't remember what each of the fields are used to. Just saying ;)
/Kim A
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