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Hi,
>
> I have been trying to edit the first 2 pages of a site using ee,
> http://www.blackdogrepresents.com.
>
> your reply below makes sense, and I have been in touch with the previous
> developer and unfortunately they are unable to assist me, but did provide me
> with the .fla files and all the files from the site.
>
> I have looked through all the files and I would like to ask a few questions.
>
> is it possible for me to duplicate the site and cms on another/temporary
> domain. so I can try to edit the site without disrupting the live site?
>
> as the site is flash based, are the titles (artist, gallery, news etc) on
> the first (index) page editable (removable, renaming, hyper linking)? and if
> so would this be done in the flash file or using the cms?
>
> I understand you can`t navigate the control panel with me, but if I could
> get a few pointers from you it would be really appreciated.
>
> thanks again
>
> Stuart

Moved to EE1 Support by Moderator

WOW, that makes little to no sense at all.

If EE is managing the data and then flash reads it & presents it then you should be able to add/edit entries. IF you’re looking to modify the actual behaviour of the web page then you’ll have to delve into the flash file as FLASH is handling it.

.... This is all assumption

EDIT: That site should be HTML - Fancy fades and long load times with no URL/SEO goodness makes it all pretty limited.

Welcome to the ExpressionEngine forums, Stewart!

Since you’re new to the EE forums, have you seen EEWiki:// How to Post a Support Request?

It looks like you have a support credit, but doesn’t mention which version you’re asking for help with.

EE will have nothing to do with any flash objects on your site. We can’t really assist you with that part of things, other than to point out that when it comes to pathing images, flash files and the like, often times you need to change file paths to path from the root. In other words, if you have an image stored in a folder called images, you need to make sure your image path looks like this:

/images/image.jpg

instead of

images/image.jpg

As far as whether or not someone can run code on a sample or test site - yes, the EE license does allow for that.

Does that help?

thanks for the help guys. i belive im using ee 1.6.4

i know my post doesnt make much sense, but i have kinda been thrown in at the deep end with this.

a friend has asked me to edit this site that she had built a while ago, but has now lost contact with the developer.

im trying to find out how to add and remove a couple of navigation links, ie. news, gallery, artist and then add a link to an external blog url.

i really dont know where to start.

are the links listed in the control panel? if so where?

once i get going hopefully it will click, just need that head start

thanks for any assistance

stuart

Hi, Stuart. I moved your question over to the EE1.x forum, we split out our support questions based on which version of EE you’re using.

Where to start?

That’s not going to be an easy answer. What I’d do is tell your friend that if she wants the site to run in EE she needs to get rid of the flash elements and use something she can work with herself, or that you feel comfortable dealing with… Unless you want to deal with the flash elements of the site.

Is any of this stored in EE? I’m doubtful. The good news about using EE is that you have full control over templates, etc, but that’s also the bad part. Because it is so flexible, there is not one place you can know for certain where to look.

Where I’d start - take a look at the screen shot I’m attaching. This is a partial screen shot of a default template group. See the red asterisk next to the word index? That’s the template that controls the home page. Every other template controls another aspect of the site.

Is that enough to get you started? I’d also recommend you look over on http://train-ee.com - which has some great training resources.

thanks sue for your help with this, the jpeg and link were very helpful. at least i can see the index with the asterx.

now after clicking this i go to an editable page the same as html with the swf embeded into it.

that would mean to me that if it was a html site that here is where id edit the index, but here it would just play the flash movie.

what im having trouble understanding is, if its a flash movie playing, how is it possible for her to edit the list of photographers in the artst section without editing raw flash files.

having looked at the web files again there is alot of php. is this how the flash comunicates with the ee?

would the editing of the site be done through mysql?

once again i appreciate your assistance. to be honest i didnt expect ee to be so complex yet versitile!

stuart

stuart,

Look under your Edit tab. In the weblog filter what weblogs can you see. I am guessing you have on for artist and one for news at least. These are the containers/buckets that hold all your entries.

Look for the artist Paul Murphy for example. You should have an entry for this.

All your content can be edited from this edit area. You don’t need to go near the template area as all that work is done for you. The previous developer uses one template to generate all the data that is pulled into the flash file. http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php/site/data
It’s in an XML format. So anything you change regarding an entry in EE will be updated here automatically.

If you got Publish - > News you can add a news item.
Like wise any other sections of the website.

Does that help?

Hi John

thanks for your help with this. sorry for the delay i have been waiting for some info.

i can see, under the edit tab > edit and contact, where to edit the content of these sections.

what im looking for idealy are where to edit the labels on the first page ie news, artist, gallery etc.

also where to edit the links for these labels. so when you click on gallery on the front page how does it link to the gallery section? this is because i have to create a link to an external site.

also i would like to publish the site to a temp domain so i can veiw my changes.
i have set up the domain and downloaded the source files. if i now upload these files to the temp domian will this reproduce the site? and will there be any affect on the original live site?

i think im gradualy making sence of ee

All that is stored in the flash file. You have to replace the flash file with html or EE code. Does that make sense?

What I would do is create a new site, and don’t bother with bringing anything over from the old site, since you’re going to be replacing most of it. It won’t bother the old site since your links should reflect the new site instead of the old site.

If you do paths like this:

<a href="http://{path=">Home</a>

then when you change the value of the link to the site index page, your code will show the right domain info.

Does that help?

thanks sue,

i have tried to persued them to have a new html site, but i think that depends on whether or not i can fix this problem now.

i feel my only other option is to try and edit the flash now and then get the html one built soon after. can i tell them that they will have an equally dynamic and stylish site with ee and html?

in a previous post you said that the licence does allow me to publish the whole site on a temporary domain. i can see that this is the only way for me to edit the flash because it is only viewable when connected to the ee, thus not disrupting the live site.?

i hope this makes sense, thanks again for your help

stuart

Hi Stuart,

Yes, you can use the same license for development. Personally I like developing locally rather than on a live server using MAMP or WAMP; it’s much faster.

In any case, definitely check out Train-EE because it sounds like you want to get up to speed on EE as quickly as possible.