Everything lives on your server. Nothing lives on my servers at all. My servers are only used to validate that your domain is properly licensed.
Total CMS does not use a MySQL database, however, it creates is own database of files inside a folder that lives on your server.
As Joe mentions your site will still show data, it is stored on your server.
In Armadillo what Content Editor do you have selected in the online settings?
Triadic Chromatic
The first paragraph is within paragraph tags <p>, so it gets a font size of font-size: 1.40rem; or about 22.4 px on a desktop.
then you have the youtube,
then you have text:
“Here’s what George says in a master class:”
That’s not in a paragraph, (there is an empty paragraph above it that has a line br). So it’s in a division (has no font styling) so it gets it’s 16px from the body tag (100%).
entry:
Opera Dudes!
Again the opening is in a paragraph, so the text displays larger.
You could a bunch of CSS to add all the blog class and ID stuff. You could pick another theme that has that stuff in it.
Or you could use the Markdown Content Editor in Armadillo. That would be my Choose. I know you think it’s going to be too hard, but Markdown is easy.
As for your images select settings media and upload media:
From that screen you can drag and drop or select the image:
Go back to the list of images and right Click the preview eyeball.
Depending on the browser your using one option should be “copy link address” (that’s Chromes wording).
Then in your post select the icon, then select the http:// part and paste.
Markdown should get put all your text within a paragraph. It also will work for youtube pasting.
@blue4miles Yes everything that teefers said. There is so much stuff going on there from the method you used to enter the text and URL. Looks like you added a few CSS hand grenades into each post
I would remove all of the content from each post and paste into a simple text editor, copy and then paste just the text into Armadillo as unformatted text. Get the posts working with just text and then add the YouTube link into each post one at a time.
A blog without an update ability? Not much of a blog.
I don’t think you would have to do an update unless you’re ready. Certainly within 7 days.
I agree 100% If your using something then yes you should stay current. If RealMac stops or a major vendor stops then your going to be scrambling to replace it. But it all still works completely until you find the replacement.
I’m retired from IT, so I don’t do this for a living, or really for money anymore. I have been helping out a couple of (what I call) kids, trying to get going with there business, and I can tell you it’s very competitive market, at least in my hometown.
@teefers Thank you so much for spending time helping me.
I use Rich Text for my posts.
I had a big problem with line breaks, I couldn’t get a new paragraph to show, even though it was there in the edit window. I discovered that (in the RTF editor) if I did a double space at the end of a line, I could then get a paragraph return. Perhaps that caused some of my problems.
I looked at Markdown but couldn’t work out how get the image URL. But now you’ve shown me how! I really appreciate your help.
@webdeer yep, I thought it might be something I was doing. CSS had grenades lol
@joeworkman thanks for your help too Joe.
I’m going to go through my posts with Markdown, thanks guys.
Kenneth,
Markdown is really easy, will only take you an hour to get good at it.
take a look at this post I listed a bucnh of resources to learn MD:
http://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/poster-foundation-and-archive/13230/12
@teefers thanks again, working through posts, seems to be working.
Couldn’t get videos to work but then found this:
https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/technical-writing/markdown-guide/
Towards the bottom it gives the code to embed videos.
UPDATE
I followed everyone’s advice, especially @teefers, and Armadillo seems to be working perfectly now. It obviously works better using the Markdown editor (I’ve realised the RTF editor causes problems when you return to edit a post). Thank you all, I can return to writing music now.
There’s a ton of great guides to markdown. If you really get into writing a lot with it there are some great standalone editors. I currently like iA writer it’s like $20 for the Mac version, and they have an iOS version as well. Keep the documents in iCloud and keep writing on your iPad or iPhone.
You would have to do the images later to get the right URL for Armadillo.
For future reference, when embedding YouTube videos that you’d like to be responsive, I’d suggest using this site:
It will generate the HTML code needed for videos to be responsive. Just copy it, switch over to Armadillo’s content editor and (if using the RTF editor) switch to the “Source” view and paste in the snippet. You should be able to paste HTML code directly into the Markdown editor “as is” and it just work.
If you have further questions please let me know.
Hi Jonathan, I’ve just sent you a pm - please ignore it as the issue seem to be sorted.
Regards
Barrie
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