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Calsnoboarder
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Love the tools in Artisteer 4 RC... my only real concern is that the editing window shows the ability to have multicolumn content areas in wordpress and joomla. Neither of these multicolumn designs actually translate into your wordpress and joomla templates when you push them to the content management systems.
At least with Artisteer 3.1, when you chose the content management system you'd be working in, the appropriate design elements would lay out on the page. You couldn't create multicolumn content areas in Joomla or Wordpress template designs because those content management systems do not allow for that unless you change the php template files. Since artisteer 4 does not actually do that, the new design system for Artisteer 4 is a bit misleading.
Anyone else find this problematic?
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dave
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I have not tried the newest RC version of version of 4 yet because I'm worried it might not have capabilities I've grown accustomed in the beta version, but I only use WordPress as a CMS and I can tell you that the column does translate fairly easily into WordPress when using the version 4 beta when you import all the content and delete all the pages/posts you might have beforehand. But, again, I have no idea what this new RC cola version does or doesn't have because my intuition is telling me to stick with what works so far before screwing up my current themes or deleting the beta version (as some people have said uploading and using the RC version does). If I don't have to risk it, why bother with the drama?
But the beta allows for the columns no problem. I've used it on 4 different sites so far and it works fine.
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calsnoboarder
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I want to make sure I understand you. When you export with a multicolumn content area (not the sidebars, but the content area you can edit the text, images, columns, etc), and you INCLUDE CONTENT in the export, you are saying that the posts will have the columns in the actual CMS that you can edit? Whenever I have exported to WP, I haven't yet actually exported with content (because many of these sites are live sites and it was in the PDF feature list to NOT export if you have content already (or backup in case things go to hell in a handbasket). I'll have to create a dev site and see what it actually does... ideally, the spaces you create in a multicolumn format content area are editable areas (widgets?).
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calsnoboarder
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Ahhh... i see... it creates divs and places them in the page editor. The css must be generated that places each div next to each other. Interesting... i will have to find the css that controls the placement of these columns side by side and see...
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