SkyBlueCanvas CMS

A recent visitor to the SkyBlueCanvas forum asked how to display individual blurbs of text in a specific spot on a SkyBlueCanvas page. If you are familiar with the SkyBlueCanvas Managers and Modules you probably recognize that this concept is very similar to the Teasers. In this post I will show you how to show individual Teasers anywhere you want.

We are happy to announce that SkyBlueCanvas Lightweight CMS v1.1 Beta is now available for preview. The new version includes several bug fixes as well as improved usability and a host of new features that make SkyBlueCanvas even easier to use. You can view the demo of SkyBlueCanvas v1.1 Beta at www.skybluecanvas.com/beta/.

August 1, 2008 marks an exciting milestone for SkyBlueCanvas. As of today, SkyBlueCanvas has surpassed 5,000 downloads. This is an exciting milestone especially since SkyBlueCanvas was only officially released on March 28 of this year. The software is downloaded an average of every 36 minutes. The timing of reaching this milestone is a great time to share some more exciting news.

SkyBlueCanvas is happy to announce that a new developer has joined the development team to help with Developer Documentation. Steve Fister, an e-Learning Architect and Web Developer working in New England for TIBCO Software, Inc. headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

SkyBlueCanvas is happy to announce that a new developer has joined the development team. Todd Crowe, formerly a developer for NetScape and AOL will be joining the team to help with the PHP architecture and programming.

As a way of saying thank you to those of you who have been following the blog, I have decided to release the alpha version of SkyBlueCanvas v1.1. The new version has some significant improvements to the code and also includes the latest version of WYMeditor (v0.5 Alpha).

I have created a new plugin for SkyBlueCanvas that adds the ability to dynamically insert the values of properties of the site and page objects within the content of articles or from within the HTML of the site templates. The name of the new plugin is SiteVars and I think this is one of the coolest features to date.

SkyBlueCanvas Lightweight CMS comes with the ability to easily display banner ads on your site. This is achieved via the Plugin API and the ads plugin that comes with the SkyBlueCanvas source code. In this article I give you step-by-step instructions to help set up banner ads on your SkyBlueCanvas site.

SkyBlueCanvas is built for small web sites and non-technical users. The system distills the core concepts of content editing down to their simplest form and eliminates a lot of the complexities associated with larger systems. This article explains the key concepts at the core of a SkyBlueCanvas web site.

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.