Custom tags for custom designs?

Posted on 16/11/2009 00:33:31

Hi i am a neewly hired designer (and to little extent programmer). I have been introduced to DW and think i have a basic grasp of how things work. I have read in the design/template manuals, but do not quite get the workings...

My job is to design the website, and make paragraph templates that other people easily can fill out. I have worked with custom CMS's before and the concept usually is:

1) design a template
2) place tags inside the template
3) create backend, so that you have forms that correspond with the tags. Example: You make 2 image upload inputs if you have 2 images in this paragraph, some inputs for the different headlines and a texteara for the main text, and maybe another textarea for an infobox,

From what i have read in the Manuals, i am not able to make "custom" tags. My question then is: How do i accomplish this simple goal? How do i fill out my the template i have made?
From what i can see, there is only one form, and one image available to you per paragraph!?

Many Thanks in advance :)

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Posted on 16/11/2009 09:55:44

Hi

The concept in Dynamicweb is that you can have up to 200 paragraphs on a page.

Each paragraph can consist of 4 things.
    1. ParagraphName
    2. ParagraphText
    3. ParagraphImage
    4. ParagraphModule

The 3 first you probably know, but the last one is the output from any kind of module from our module list.

And as you have discovered it's not possible to add custom tags on paragraph level.

// Dammark

Posted on 16/11/2009 15:46:05

Ok thanks for the quick response. Guess i will have to think in new patterns then...

I have another quick question: If you look in the master template you will see some tags, one of them is the PageContent tag. Which page/template is PageContent returning?

If i go down to page template level i can't seem to find what i want.

background:

I have looked at the source code of the current design, and found a bit of in-document css right after the <head> section: i want to edit that css... Which means i need to find that code somewhere, so i thought a top-down approach would be fit: so first i looked at the master, but then i got stuck , because i don't know what PageContent directly points to...

Thanks in advance!

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