Archive for the ‘Content Mangement System’ Category

YouTube Videos and Ingeniux

May 9, 2008

We have created a way to insert YouTube videos into our site using the Ingeniux CMS. Here’s a preview of a video running in our new college template:

This was quite a nut to crack, but after numerous hours and a large order from Starbucks, we completed the process. The problem existed in the fact that the url of the video was what we wanted, but the embed code provided by YouTube wouldn’t work. Insert this code into your page schema to create a YouTube video component. (Note that we have autoplay set to true, so the movie will play when the page loads).

<xsl:variable name=”video” select=”/*/Page[@Name='Video']/@URL”/>

<xsl:variable name=”videourl” select=”substring-after($video,’=')”/>

<xsl:if test=”/*/Page[@Name='Video']“>

<object width=”425″ height=”355″>

<param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/{$videourl}&hl=en”></param>

<param name=”wmode” value=”transparent” ></param>

<embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/{$videourl}&autoplay=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”355″ />

</object>

</xsl:if>

<xsl:if test=”/*/Navigation[@Name = 'VideoPageNavigation']“>

<!– Goes to template match in include-navigations –>

<xsl:apply-templates select=”/*/Navigation[@Name = 'VideoPageNavigation']” />

</xsl:if>

To create the link for the video, set up the page (on the Edit tab) like the following example:

Getting Down to the Wire

May 8, 2008

We are in the final days development for our new website. This week we have our CMS provider (Ingeniux) and our design firm (New City Media) on campus trying to solve any last issues with integration. We had a big breakthrough this afternoon on the navigation (thanks Jeth!) and I feel good that it is going to work well (the navigation that is). I’ve blogged about this previously. And it was great to see it running live on our site.

Our plan is to work on content placement as much as we can this week, and then do a two week content lock down where we update the site like crazy, and hopefully publish the new site on June 1. I suspect that most of June will be taken up by doing clean-up. And we have quite a few applications that are outside the CMS that will need to be reskinned in order to mesh with the new site.