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Hi everyone, I have an oldfashioned website (about 200 html files plus 500 picture, pdf and other files in 15 subdirs, plus some simple cgi scripts), which requires an visual overhauling plus adding responsiveness. I've checked Rocketcake for suitability and ran into some problems due to some principal restrictions of Rocketcake. a) Rocketcake does not support vertical menus, i.e. at the left or right side plus submenus, but only horizontal menus (plus submenus). All workarounds I've tried so far (avoiding any additional js coding), resulted in loosing the mobile menu option/function, and some visual disadvantages with the submenus. b) Rocketcake does not support more than 1 subdir. That means, that all pictures, pdfs, etc. must be in one subdir, resulting in a huge mess of files. Why not let the user chose freely the subdirs, in which he wants to store the appropriate files? IMHO this could be achived by only few lines of coding. Migration of a large existing site is no work which is completed in a few days. A smooth step-by-step migration, i.e. changing one page after another while continuosly running the existing server requires that the existing structure of subdir is maintained. Otherwise there must be permanent changes in the html code to adjust the Rocketcake code to the old dir structure. This is error prone and should be avoided. Generally spoken, Rocketcake seems to be suitable for such a migration process, if the above mentioned problems could be solved. Any ideas or hints, how to overcome these problems? |
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Not sure what you mean with vertical menus? There is a sidebar menu for RocketCake here: https://www.ambiera.com/rocketca..., if that's what you are looking for? |
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wrote: Not sure what you mean with vertical menus? There is a sidebar menu for RocketCake here: https://www.ambiera.com/rocketca..., if that's what you are looking for? Don't know, whether it supports submenus , subsubmenus and permant visibility, because it is only available in the prof version, which I don't have. Any solution for the multi-dir problem? Currently, I just could imagine a workaround by postprocessing the generated html files by a script. |
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Images are always written into the sub directory you can set in the options, but there is no way to specify different sub directories for different images. Not sure what you would need that for? |
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I would certainly make use of a feature to further organise where photos are published on the actual site. Some of my sites end up with hundreds of pictures and videos and having them all lumped into a single folder presents some challenges at my end for uploading properly. At the very least, separating pictures and videos into separate folders would be a HUGE quality of life improvement for me. |
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Ok, probably an idea, will think about that! |
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I have a similar situation with 100s of PDFs and MP4 files that are in an existing website that was remodeled using RC. I left the folder structure intact for these files and inserted html URLS using the full address (https://mysite.com/videos/2025/filename.mp4 , etc) instead of inserting each file in the html that RC creates with them being inserted in the resulting RC file. This work OK but it would be easier to find another way for RC to manage the folders. |
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Still no reply to my problem with links to PDFs. However, I find that inserting a link and selecting"file from disk" lets me choose a PDF and I guess the file is lumped with all the other files the the rc_images folder. Wish there was a way to have sub-directories for images, pdfs, etc. |
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Yes, for migrating, I think the best way is to just like them using an old school URL - but maybe RocketCake will allow linking random files from the file system into the document structure some day, I think there was a thread on this forum where the devs said this is a planned feature. |
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wrote: Ok, probably an idea, will think about that! YES, please add this much needed feature! |
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