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Bridging the Gap

Hi, I've worked in the IT field for over 15 years, been in web design for almost 2 years and finding I am getting stuck fairly often. I did build a few sites. In IT land, done a lot of networking, troubleshooting, and I know my way around an OS. …

reviews?

People looking for some concrete5 thoughts on reddit.. http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/s8icm/what_do_you_folks_think_of_the_concrete5_cms/

VSChart C5 Comparisons

I found this site called VSChart which is a "comparison wiki". It is kind of cool, offers comparisons between any 2 things, and sure enough C5 is compared there alongside dozens of other CMS/Frameworks. Here is the comparison to Drupal, and the links o…

Sitewide Setting speed settings question

We are pretty close to going live with our new C5 site and I was wondering if someone could explain the "Speed Settings" in the Sitewide Settings page. It says that Full page caching can dramatically lighten the load on your server and speed up your …

"Send Message" button on profile page...

Not wanting to bug someone with a wrongly sent message, and after having searched the Forums, I've got the following question: If one views a member's response to a Forum question, then from that response, goes to the member's personal Profile page and…

What has happened to concrete 5?

I have been using and recommending concrete 5 for some time, and recently downloaded the latest v5.5 and went into shock! This version seems a clumsy, clunky, complex and expensive CMS to use. To TRY out various addons you have to dance through hoops wi…

Low Priority - How to safely upgrade C5

I'm wondering why I keep having problems with all my C5 sites. They're SO hard to upgrade, and I'm not the only one. I found this great article. http://adamjohnsondesign.com/blog/upgrade-concrete5-with-minimal-downtime/ Tried it, it seems to work…

Creating a New Page Level Event for Composer Publishing

I've setup a 'blog' on my site that uses Composer to generate the posts. I'm really pleased with how well it works. What I'd like to do is send out a tweet the first time the post is 'Published'. The 'Tweeter' addon is installed, but doesn't seem to pl…

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