A lot of people have the problem that when you are logged into the Concrete5 backend, the edit bar can move things around in your design. Here is an easy way to add a specific class to your <body> tag so you can adjust positions of anything on the page while the edit bar is [...]
*UPDATE: Read the comments, the server hard drive was dying and that is the reason why files were never being cached. However these methods will still help speed your concrete5 website up.* If you’re using the new Concrete5 5.4.x package you may have noticed your website has slowed down from previous versions. After doing some [...]
A little while back I provided the design for Concert Catalog, an iPhone application that provides concert listings in your city. We just launched the splash page with a basic explanation and a download link, so get going eh! It’s free to download. The page ironically uses CU3ER (as one user on Twitter pointed out), [...]
I’m pleased to release a simple block called Social Icons. It functions similar to what you see on the left of this page, by entering a URL into the block, the icon and link will appear automatically pre-formated that can be changed with CSS. This block is free! You can download the block on the [...]
I’m please to announce I have been selected as a featured member on the concrete5 community page. Concrete5 certainly has changed the way I build websites and applications and I am proud to be apart of such a great open source community! If you haven’t joined the forums yet, now is a good time.
Concrete5 has built in site statistics tracking but it’s very simple and records every hit, not checking if the user is unique. This can create some very large database tables and possibly slow down your website. Although the graph will remain in the dashboard, the site will no longer track all the visits. Open up [...]
Many times you need to inject includes of javascript or css into the header instead of writing the include path into add.php or edit.php. This is a much cleaner solution and can be accomplished in the blocks controller.php. In this example I include both swfobject and jquery’s colorpicker libraries as well as the jquery colorpicker [...]
Many people do not like the default spacer that Concrete5 uses for its page titles which is “::” To change this, open config/site.php and add the following code: define(‘PAGE_TITLE_FORMAT’, ‘%1$s – %2$s’); You may adjust the “-” character in the above code to any that you wish and that will become your new page title [...]
There is an updated version of my Concrete5 Testimonials Package now available on the Concrete5 Marketplace. New Features Include: Now includes a WYSIWYG editor in the backend. Testimonials can now include images, formatted text and more. Includes an optional content field which displays below the testimonial so you can add additional information like Website, Country, [...]
I’m happy to announce the release of a developer licensed version of my Concrete5 Testimonials package. This means it’s a one time fee of $125.00 USD and you can use it on as many websites as you wish, meaning you never have to buy another Concrete5 Testimonials license again. If you or your firm have [...]
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