DBVT.COM is running the latest Sueetie bits, and in the process I converted my Services area from using ScrewTurn Wiki to the new Sueetie CMS coming in Version 1.4. Using ScrewTurn at DBVT.COM for only a few pages to describe my services was a waste of a great Wiki. And besides, we’ve got a sweet CMS now! You can see the Sueetie CMS-powered Services area at http://dbvt.com/services. Setting up my services pages with the Sueetie CMS is a good opportunity to walk through the process step-by-step with you.
The first thing we'll do is create a new Sueetie Content Page Group in Sueetie Administration. Sueetie v1.4 comes with a default content page group and content page to get you started. We’re going to change the Group Key to “services” and give it our new Group Title.
We're going to apply the same approach on creating our first content page. We'll select the default content page and modify its page key and other descriptors accordingly. We don't need to see a screenshot of that, but I did want to make the point of how little information is required to create a new content page as you can see below. The only fields you need to enter are the Page Key used to uniquely identify the page's content parts and a Page Title. The Page Title is used to generate the SEO-happy page stub. It is also the title of the web page.
I modified the Sueetie default template page at /themes/[THEME]/pages/content.aspx. Below is an empty content.aspx page.
Before going further I want to mention the Content Page List View controls at the top and bottom of the page in the grey regions. These are simple Sueetie List View Controls like all others and stored in /themes/[THEME]/views. Sueetie 1.4 will come with a default page list view control for you to modify as you wish.
Okay, now it's time to populate the pages. I had reproduced the content from the wiki to the CMS pages on my development server prior to going live. Now it is a matter of using the new and improved Sueetie Content Part Editor to copy, paste and go! What you see below is the HTML popup from the TinyMCE-based Sueetie Content Part editor. I don't care what any of the young kids say, I love working with the new Sueetie TinyMCE Content Part editor!
And for the final product, the new CMS-based Dave Burke Services page.
