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.

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

26

SkyBlueCanvas Fragments Explained

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The key buidling dynamic content into a SkyBlueCanvas site is what we call fragments. An easy way to think about fragments is as a piece of a page. The fragment code creates the HTML for a particular data type. For instance, if you have a collection of Links you want to display on your site, the Links Fragment will take care of generating the HTML. One neat thing about fragments, though, is that a single fragment can have numerous different HTML formats.