Mar
7
Fragmentor Plugin for SkyBlueCanvas
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Fragmentor is a plugin to be used instead of or alongside the default Fragment Plugin in SkyBlueCanvas. Fragmentor provides template and fragment developers an alternative and much more flexible syntax for loading dynamic content views (fragments) into SkyBlueCanvas web pages. Since the plugin uses a different syntax from the default fragment plugin, it will not conflict with it. With Fragmentor, you can pass an arbitrary number of key=< value pairs of data from your article text or template file.
Mar
7
Editable Sidebar Content Hack
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A few nights ago, Steve Fister, one of the SkyblueCanvas Development Team Members posed the question again and offered a few ideas on how to pull it off. After thinking about Steve’s suggetions, I realized that this is actually quite easy to do. In fact, with Steve’s idea, you can add an editable text block anywhere on a web page. What’s more, with a little SkyBlueCanvas Skin Magic, you can build page-specific text blocks, so if you want a different block of text to appear on different pages, you can do it with this trick.
Feb
22
MyVars String Replacement Extension
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The new MyVars extension allows you to create custom search variables/tokens that will be replaced with the values you specify
when your web page is rendered in the browser. This feature can be helpful when you want to be able to easily change
bits of informatin such as phone numbers, emails, web page URLs or image paths. You set the value once, and it is displayed
anywhere in your site you choose. If the value changes, you only make the change in one place.
Nov
27
Creating Menus in SkyBlueCanvas v1.1
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When you create a new page in SkyBlueCanvas, a menu item is already created for you. In fact, there is not really a menu item to create because the system assumes, by default, that if you have created a page, there should be a menu link for. I mean, how else would anyone find your page if there is not link, right?
Nov
25
Installing Portfolio Extension for SkyBlueCanvas v1.1 RC1
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It was brought to my attention today by a SkyBlueCanvas user that I neglected to include good instructions for installing the Portfolio and Galleria extensions. I apologize for the inconvenience. Here are some detailed instructions on how to install the Galleria Extension. The same instructions, with some very minor differences, also apply for the Portfolio Fragment (frag_portfolio).
Jun
16
Skin Installer
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The ability to re-skin a web site – or change the appearance without affecting the content – is one of the more useful features of any content management system. SkyBlueCanvas makes this task extremely simple. In this article I explain how to install new skins on your SkyBlueCanvas site.
Jun
16
Skins Manager
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Templates – or skins – are the presentation layer of a web site and allow you to change the appearance of your site without making any changes to the content (text and pictures). The SkyBlueCanvas template system is very simple and very flexible. What your site looks like is limited only by your imagination.
Skins are [...]
Jun
16
Collections Manager
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Collections are perhaps the trickiest concept to grasp in SkyBlueCanvas. A collection is a type of container made up of a variable number of items. Examples of collections include link lists, photo galleries, FAQs and Menus. They are literally collections of things or smaller units that appear within a page. The concept of a collection, allows you, the user to add, edit and delete individual items within a container without having to worry about building the container itself.
Jun
16
Media Manager
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SkyBlueCanvas allows you to include additional, non-html media with a page in your site. These media include images and PDF, TAR, ZIP and DOC files. This article explains how to upload and manage media for use on your SkyBlueCanvas site.
Jun
16
Page Manager
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SkyBlueCanvas is built first-and-foremost around the concept of pages as the base container. A page can contain text, pictures and other containers (also called collections). This article explains how to add, edit and organize pages in your SkyBlueCanvas site.