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Debbie
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2010-06-13 03:51:39
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Hello,
Is there an easy way to replace a panel design sitewide?
Currently I am changing the design panel individually using the edit function. This update method seems to totally bypass the reason for using CSS. Am I missing something?????
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Andrei Rinciog [Extend Studio]
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2010-06-14 04:31:32
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Hi Debbie,
You can set the panels to use the same CSS classes when you create them. After that, when you update the CSS class for one of the panels it will update in for all the panels.
Regards,
Andrei Rinciog
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Debbie
post date:
2010-06-14 22:23:06
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Hi Andrei,
Would you please provide step-by-step instructions for this?
I am using the same css class for the panels, which works great for the fonts and spacing.
I want to know how to change the images too. For example, if I used the Flexipanel design "Stylish" and used it across the whole site, and then I changed my mind and wanted to use "Curtain" instead, how would I deploy that panel change across the whole site without having to individually update each instance of the panel.
Thanks,
--Debbie
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Andrei Rinciog [Extend Studio]
post date:
2010-06-15 06:51:00
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Hello Debbie,
Yes, I'm afraid you are right. In order to change the skin of the panels you need to edit each one of them.
I'm going to put this as a feature request and we will think about how we could add this maybe in a future update.
As a workaround you could use some Dreamweaver templates and then create the HTML pages based on those templates. This way you will have the panels in just one place and not in several pages.
Regards,
Andrei Rinciog
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Debbie
post date:
2010-06-15 14:45:21
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Hi Andrei,
This is a really big problem. It appears that Flexipanel CSS for Dreamweaver is really hard coding layout and the only CSS control is in the font styling and spacing.
This seems like it violates XHTML and CSS standards and has certainly created a maintenance nightmare for me. In addition, if I understand correctly, I need to use your program for maintaining the panels, not just creating them.
The site I have in development right now has about 70 pages and has between 3 and 7 panels on each page.
I suggest this gets moved off the "feature list" and gets added to the "Major Bug" list.
--Debbie
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Andrei Rinciog [Extend Studio]
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2010-06-17 06:52:18
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Hello Debbie,
Usually when you have pages that have the same layout and you just need to change some content, the best thing to do is to use Dreamweaver templates.
This way you can handle the update process easier. If we implement an update in all pages feature it will duplicate Dreamweaver functionality. However, we will take your request into consideration and think about some way of preventing this kind of situations in the future.
What you can do now to change the skin is to use search and replace. For example, if you want to replace the skin "curtain", "standard" color scheme with the skin "basic", "red" color scheme you have to search:
"/CSSPanels/curtain/standard_images/"
and replace it with:
"/CSSPanels/basic/red_images/"
Regards,
Andrei Rinciog
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