Integrating Your Custom Web Site Design with Mura CMS

Posted At: December 1, 2009 8:53 AM

Posted By: Stephen Withington

Related Categories: ColdFusion, Presentations, Mura CMS

Are you tired of trying to shoe-horn your custom web site design into someone else's content management system? Drop in and learn how to fully integrate your custom CSS and HTML with Mura CMS, a comprehensive, ColdFusion-powered, open source content management system. In less than sixty minutes, I'll attempt to cover:

Exploring Mura templates & themes
Integrating your custom CSS & HTML
Creating Mura components
Creating Feeds/Indexes
Creating Custom Feeds/Indexes

If you haven't already done so, it might behoove you to catch part one, "Getting Started with Mura CMS", offered on the CFmeetup on Nov 12, with the recording here.

Where: The presentation will be online and free to anyone who's interested. The meeting will also be recorded for those who are unable to make it to the live presentation. Visit http://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/calendar/11981239/ for more information and to RSVP.

When: Thurs. Dec 3, 12:00pm US ET (UTC/GMT-5)

Feel free to stop by!

Comments (10)

Comments

Great presentation. What service do you use for hosting?

# Posted By Nathan Miller | 12/1/09 12:00 PM

@Nathan,
Thanks! I believe Adobe actually provides the hosting of the CFMeetup presentations.

# Posted By Stephen Withington | 12/1/09 1:14 PM

Sorry, I meant for your Mura web hosting.

# Posted By Nathan Miller | 12/1/09 4:30 PM

No worries ... I currently use CrystalTech.com, but am taking a close look at http://hostek.com/hosting/coldfusion/coldfusion-ho... since Team Mura is working so closely with them right now.

# Posted By Stephen Withington | 12/1/09 5:01 PM

Wicked preso bro, nice work!!

# Posted By Brian FitzGerald | 12/4/09 2:36 PM

Hi Stephan,

Thanks for your time and the 2 preso's on Mura at cfmeetup. I have gone back and re-watched both, picked a different design template and was able to integrate. I have a lot of additional things to figure out with Mura before I publish my first site but I had one question related to the last presentation. One the site is using my mew stylesheet, I amticipated when editing a page and in the FCKeditor section, I would see the style's from my new site.css in the style dropdown. Is there an additional change I need to make to be able to do that?

Thanks,
Dan

# Posted By Dan O'Keefe | 12/6/09 1:19 PM

@Dan,

I missed your comment somehow, so sorry for not responding sooner. I've added a blog entry in response to your question which can be found here: http://www.stephenwithington.com/blog/index.cfm/20...

# Posted By Stephen Withington | 12/15/09 12:01 PM

Steve,

Awesome, it works, thanks. I had a forum post over at Mura & Sean mentioned they had a problem getting them to show up in the style drop down. I will respond again and point him to your post.

Thanks
Dan

# Posted By Dan O'Keefe | 12/15/09 12:19 PM

Steve,

was wondering if you have an updated presentation covering
the new version 6 of Mura.

thanks
Bob

# Posted By Bob | 3/14/13 6:04 AM

@Bob,

Not yet. I have plans to record some presentations and get them posted on the GetMura.com web site though. However, the process is still pretty much the same. The keys to remember are that you can use any design you want ... you'll just need some template variables and understand how to talk to Mura so you can display the content and other data from Mura into your layout templates. Otherwise...it's all just your CSS, HTML, jQuery, etc. Cheers!

# Posted By Steve Withington | 3/16/13 11:17 AM