Is there some kind of developer documentation for how to build with concrete 5?
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I have looked at the documentation on this site and in all honesty it is not very easy to work through it.
There are new terms and ways of doing things which are strange to me.
Granted, there is some learning that I have to do but is there not a set of documentation somewhere that is more concise and well structured to allow a developer like me to get up to speed quickly.
For example documentation that would answer the following types of questions:
- how do I use a custom header image and delete the default slideshow fanciness?
- how do I increase the width of a web site? Which CSS file contains the relevent CSS?
- how to do work with Concrete5 with respect to making changes in code? Where do files go that I have changed? What is the best way to make such changes?
- how do I develop a custom theme?
Etc..
With WordPress there are tons of web pages all over dealing with these kinds of things. With Concrete5, not only is the forum here and the pages in general in expanded form which makes them pretty but hard to read but the site is slow to respond to page requests and there is very little in the way of tutorials or other documentation outside of what is here over the internet.
I want to use Concrete5 as I have heard good things about it but am pretty lost with respecting to being able to do the above things.
At least as of this moment.
Does anyone know of any alternate documentation available anywhere other than what is here?
Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Carlos
There are new terms and ways of doing things which are strange to me.
Granted, there is some learning that I have to do but is there not a set of documentation somewhere that is more concise and well structured to allow a developer like me to get up to speed quickly.
For example documentation that would answer the following types of questions:
- how do I use a custom header image and delete the default slideshow fanciness?
- how do I increase the width of a web site? Which CSS file contains the relevent CSS?
- how to do work with Concrete5 with respect to making changes in code? Where do files go that I have changed? What is the best way to make such changes?
- how do I develop a custom theme?
Etc..
With WordPress there are tons of web pages all over dealing with these kinds of things. With Concrete5, not only is the forum here and the pages in general in expanded form which makes them pretty but hard to read but the site is slow to respond to page requests and there is very little in the way of tutorials or other documentation outside of what is here over the internet.
I want to use Concrete5 as I have heard good things about it but am pretty lost with respecting to being able to do the above things.
At least as of this moment.
Does anyone know of any alternate documentation available anywhere other than what is here?
Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Carlos
Thanks for the responses Mnkras.
I had actually been hoping to get a link to some alternate documentation though I do appreciate your attempt to answer my questions.
I am starting to find alternate documentation which is much clearer to me on various web sites. It was a matter of changing the search terms I was using to look for stuff in Google.
I'll keep plugging away at this until I get it.
Thanks again.
Carlos
I had actually been hoping to get a link to some alternate documentation though I do appreciate your attempt to answer my questions.
I am starting to find alternate documentation which is much clearer to me on various web sites. It was a matter of changing the search terms I was using to look for stuff in Google.
I'll keep plugging away at this until I get it.
Thanks again.
Carlos
If you could post links to some of the alternate documentation you've found, that would be really helpful to others.
Also, you will probably benefit from a new book (currently available in electronic form, should be available as a printed book in April):
https://www.packtpub.com/concrete5-beginners-guide-raw/book...
Also, you will probably benefit from a new book (currently available in electronic form, should be available as a printed book in April):
https://www.packtpub.com/concrete5-beginners-guide-raw/book...
Here is one tutorial that appears to be very good although it also seems rather old. Still...it is giving me a bit of a handle on what it covers better than anything I have found here.
http://hungred.com/how-to/tutorial-making-a-template-for-concrete5/...
It talks of finding a template out on the web and importing it into Concrete5. Effectively making a Theme out of it.
That opens up a lot of possibilities for quick Concrete5 Theme building.
Anyway that is one I have found. There are others that I am working through. Some are not so good and are just confusing.
Incidentally, I am just curious...given that I write very well, if I create a site with my own Concrete5 documentation can I use the concrete5 name in the domain?
Carlos
http://hungred.com/how-to/tutorial-making-a-template-for-concrete5/...
It talks of finding a template out on the web and importing it into Concrete5. Effectively making a Theme out of it.
That opens up a lot of possibilities for quick Concrete5 Theme building.
Anyway that is one I have found. There are others that I am working through. Some are not so good and are just confusing.
Incidentally, I am just curious...given that I write very well, if I create a site with my own Concrete5 documentation can I use the concrete5 name in the domain?
Carlos
that would be a question for frz (the CEO)
Certainly he would be a better one to ask but I am just wondering in general whether or not someone can use the name of an Open Source software liberally when creating alternate documentation at an independent site?
So for example...let's say that I thought the documentation at apache.org (or whatever the site is) was pretty poor and I thought I could do a better job (by the way I don't think the documentation here is poor...not at all, just not as good as it could be for my purposes and likely for others too).
But rather than contributing it freely to the community I wanted to put it up on my own site instead and put it under a more restrictive copyright.
I know that book authors freely use software names in their books. I guess I am wondering if site authors can as freely use a software name on web sites.
Carlos
So for example...let's say that I thought the documentation at apache.org (or whatever the site is) was pretty poor and I thought I could do a better job (by the way I don't think the documentation here is poor...not at all, just not as good as it could be for my purposes and likely for others too).
But rather than contributing it freely to the community I wanted to put it up on my own site instead and put it under a more restrictive copyright.
I know that book authors freely use software names in their books. I guess I am wondering if site authors can as freely use a software name on web sites.
Carlos
1a. in the scrapbook, make a new content block, put what you want in it, then rename it My_Site_Name
1b. Dashboard->Pages and Themes->Page Types->Click Defaults
2. You have to edit the theme, which theme?
3. any files you change go in the top level directories, never edit files in the /concrete or /updates folder for example /concrete/libraries/view.php would be copies to /libraries/
4. Look in the how tos section
Wordpress is quite a bit older :P