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concrete5 5.5 Sample Content & Starting Points

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:36:00 EST

concrete5 5.5 makes it easy to create your own installation sample content with a new file format we call CIF: content import format.

Installing concrete5 from the Command Line

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:22:00 EST

Anyone want to install concrete5 from the command line? 5.5 and our command line installer will let you do just that.

concrete5 5.5 Add-On Developers: Create Your Own concrete5 Demo

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:04:00 EST

This article provides guidelines and code to let concrete5 add-on developers or anyone setup a concrete5 demo, complete with a limited administrative user, auto-installed packages, and locked down permissions. The demo can easily be reset at any time. (Note this how-to is for concrete5 5.5.0 and later.)

concrete5 5.5: Stacks vs. Scrapbooks

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:56:00 EST

In concrete5 version 5.3.0, we introduced a centralized content repositories called scrapbooks. Here you could add Blocks in one spot, and then paste them throughout your site. Now, with version 5.5.0 we've improved on them in every way. Introducing – Stacks.

concrete5 5.5: User Interface and Twitter Bootstrap

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:49:00 EST

Version 5.5 of concrete5 is a great leap forward for our interface. Twitter's new UI toolkit, Bootstrap, is a big part of it. Learn about Bootstrap, how concrete5 uses it, and how you can include it in your blocks, dashboard pages and add-ons.

concrete5 in Print: 2011 edition

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:25:00 EST

A list of all the places I know of where concrete5 was lucky enough to be featured in print.

concrete5 Version 5 is ALIVE (Almost)

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:19:00 EDT

On this week's Totally Random web show, we showed off what's coming in version 5.5. The changes are pretty sweeping. Read on for more info, and a chance to get a sneak peak.

Custom concrete5 User Reports

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:22:00 EDT

Learn how to write custom concrete5 user reports by subclassing the UserList class.

A Chilling Effect: Lawsuits and Remix Culture

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:38:00 EDT

In which it turns out we're all kind of screwed.

Designing for a Moving Web

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:11:00 EDT

Learn how andrewembler.com uses liquid grid layouts, flexible font sizes and elastic image spacing to create a site that looks good on mobile phones as well as large widescreen monitors.