concrete5 beginner's guide : create and customize your own feature-rich website in no time with concrete5! / Remo Laubacher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laubacher, Remo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web sites--Authoring programs.

Web sites.

Web sites--Design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a beginner's guide, which takes a clear, step-by-step approach to guide you through the process of creating and adding functionality to your site.This book is ideal for developers experienced with HTML and CSS and possibly PHP as well as JavaScript, who would like to build their first site with Concrete5. Some knowledge of PHP, MySQL, or HTML would be useful, but no experience with Concrete5 is expected.

Contents:

Intro

concrete5 Beginner's Guide

Table of Contents

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more

Why Subscribe?

Free Access for Packt account holders

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Time for action - heading

What just happened?

Pop quiz - heading

Have a go hero - heading

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Installing concrete5

Preparing for installation

Web browser

Text editor

Archive utility

FTP client

Installing Bitnami

Time for action - installing Bitnami WAMP stack

Pop quiz - requirements for concrete5

Downloading concrete5

Time for action - downloading the latest version

Creating an empty MySQL database

Time for action - creating a MySQL database

Installing concrete5

Time for action - installing concrete5

The configuration file

Pop quiz - the configuration file

Disabling caching

Time for action - disabling caching

Enabling pretty URLs

Time for action - enabling pretty URLs

File and directory structure of concrete5

Dispatcher process

Summary

2. Working with concrete5

Getting familiar with concrete5

Time for action - logging in to concrete5

Adding new blocks

Time for action - adding new blocks

Time for action - editing existing blocks

Have a go hero - adding more blocks

Time for action - exiting edit mode

Pop quiz - concrete5 inside the editing mode.

Working with the dashboard

Time for action - changing the site's name

Adding more pages

Time for action - adding pages to create a news section

Time for action - adding blocks to a new page

Have a go hero - adding more pages

Managing page defaults

Time for action - adding default blocks to a page type

Adding blocks to existing pages

Time for action - adding blocks to existing pages

Moving and sorting pages

Time for action - moving and sorting your pages

Splitting content into columns

Time for action - creating a multi-column layout

Have a go hero - adding more columns and blocks

Copying blocks using the clipboard

Time for action - copying the block using the clipboard

Working with stacks

Time for action - working with stacks

Styling with design and CSS

Time for action - styling your blocks

Have a go hero - customizing more styles

Have a go hero - play around

3. Managing Permissions

Managing basic permissions

Adding users and groups

Time for action - adding groups

Group expiration options

Time for action - adding users

Working with user attributes

Granting sitemap and file manager permissions

Time for action - assigning sitemap permissions

Time for action - granting file manager permissions

Have a go hero - time restriction for permissions

Granting page editing permissions

Time for action - granting edit access

Managing edit access on a page by page basis

Creating a protected website section.

Time for action - creating a protected website

Granting partial dashboard access

Time for action - granting partial dashboard access

Restricting block access

Time for action - restricting access to blocks

Working with the advanced permission mode

Time for action - activating the advanced permission mode

Managing advanced page permissions

Time for action - removing permissions to change permissions

Managing area permissions

Managing block permissions

Managing subpage permissions

Time for action - setting subpage permissions

Pop quiz - permissions in concrete5

4. Managing Add-ons

Introduction to add-ons

Installing add-ons from the marketplace

Time for action - installing an add-on

Time for action - uninstalling an add-on

Have a go hero - installing more add-ons

Manually installing an add-on

Time for action - installing an add-on manually

Working with theme add-ons

Parts of a theme

Theme file structure

Working with block add-ons

Block structure

Packages

Pop quiz - what's a package?

5. Creating Your Own Theme

Starting with a new layout

The HTML code

CSS rules

Converting HTML and CSS to a concrete5 theme

Time for action - creating the concrete5 theme header

Time for action - creating the concrete5 theme footer

Time for action - creating a page template

Time for action - creating more page templates

Pop quiz - what are page templates and page types?

Installing your theme

Time for action - installing theme

What just happened?.

PHP constants and functions

Time for action - getting a list of available constants

Time for action - listing all available functions

Time for action - checking for edit mode

Time for action - hiding content from anonymous visitors

Time for action - restricting numbers of blocks per area

Time for action - inserting a block wrapper in an area

Working with page attributes

Time for action - using attributes to set background picture

Time for action - accessing attribute data from a template

Pop quiz - what are attributes?

Inserting blocks in templates

Time for action - replacing the header area with a template block

Time for action - finding autonav block properties

Time for action - specifying block templates in an area

Applying a theme to a single page

Time for action - creating a single page layout

Time for action - adding variables to handle login errors

Pop quiz - what's a single page?

Creating customizable themes

Time for action - creating a customizable theme

Have a go hero - adding more customizable styles

6. Customizing Block Layouts

Custom templates to modify a block layout

Thumbnails in a page list

Time for action - adding thumbnails to a page list

Time for action - restricting thumbnails to a custom dimension

Have a go hero - improving the thumbnail page list

Have a go hero - exploring concrete5 helpers

Block template folder

Time for action - creating a template folder.

What just happened?

Pop quiz - how to include CSS and JavaScript files

Picture pop-ups in a content block

Time for action - building a lightbox gallery

Have a go hero - creating another JavaScript gallery

Adding a Gravatar picture in the guestbook

Time for action - adding a Gravatar picture to the guestbook

Avoiding duplicate code in a custom template

Time for action - including an existing template

Transforming a slideshow into a gallery

Time for action - creating a gallery template for a slideshow

Time for action - adding a slideshow gallery

Slideshow using file attributes

Time for action - adding file attributes to our slideshow

Time for action - using file attributes in the gallery

Using advanced tooltips in the content block

Time for action - creating advanced tooltips

7. Adding Site Navigation

Introducing the autonav block

Preparation

Time for action - undoing autonav block integration

Autonav options

Autonav page structure

Page order

Example 1 - showing all pages

Example 2 - showing relevant subpages

Example 3 - showing relevant subpages starting from the top

Autonav output

Adding navigation images

Time for action - creating page attributes for navigation pictures

Time for action - creating a block picture navigation template

Pop quiz - parts of image navigation

Adding a CSS3 hover effect

Time for action - creating a CSS3 transition autonav template

Have a go hero - create more transitions

Building a drop-down navigation.

Time for action - creating a SooperFish template.

Notes:

Includes index.

"Learn by doing : less theory, more results"--Cover.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 23, 2013).

ISBN:

9781782169321

1782169326

OCLC:

849933995