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Holiday reading material
Andrew, one of our awesome new interns who joined us with the "Summer of Code"-programme, just finished some tutorials targeted at SilverStripe-beginners. They should give you an insight on creating a basic site and custom pages, and keep you busy learning SilverStripe over the holidays.
We'll have more tutorials available early next year, covering more advanced topics like building and processing forms, architecting complex data-structures, adding search-functionality and customizing the backend.
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CSS is 10 Years Old
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) has just had its 10 year anniversary, and celebrated the occasion by creating a site to mark its involvement in the web development world. CSS itself hasn’t been relatively popular until more recent years. w3.org even upgraded the CSS validator
The immersion of the language in web development has greatly improved the way we make websites and allows us to be freer by separating content, layout and styling markup but was greatly resisted due to browser compliance problems.
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SilverStripe Usability Review
We recently put SilverStripe under the microscope, and got an expert usability review of the content management system from our friends at Optimal Usability.
The report outlined a few things where we can improve the user experience and make SilverStripe even better, and also mentioned a few things we’re doing really well. We take usability seriously, and want SilverStripe to be an enjoyable experience for everyone.
2.0 Beta 2 released
We're pleased to announce that SilverStripe is now up to beta 2.
This release contains a number of bug fixes, most notably we've now included a tutorial, which will help you get up and running with SilverStripe. When you install either version, you'll get a stripped down version of our demo website, which provides a better base to start building your new sites on. The tutorial will then help you understand how the SilverStripe templating system works, and runs you through building a news article template to extend your website.
2.0 Beta 1 released
We are pleased to announce a new build of SilverStripe as we get closer to a final 2.0 release. The latest version contains a number of bug fixes, and general interface improvements over the previous release.
Of note Ingo has done some great work on the “details view” for members, newsletters and "files and images". We are now using a “light box” as opposed to a “bottom” frame to display the details of a specific record – this gives us more usable space to work with and generally allows us to support more complex interfaces. We’ve also added support for paging (so you can easily change between items in the list), and an Ajax auto-complete.
A number of the bugs with the Windows installer have been fixed which should make life easier for those of you wanting to have a play on your local machine before moving to a production environment.
Coming in October
In follow-up to Tim's post yesterday about the launch of our new site, I thought I'd post a quick note to let you know what we've got planned this month.
SilverStripe CMS Opensourced!
We're pleased to announce we've released SilverStripe CMS under an open source license for all to enjoy./p>
The SilverStripe CMS is a modern, object orientated platform written in PHP5, which is great for developing websites and web application with. The key points of differences are;
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How do humans win?
Webstock is here! We've been in heads-down mode for a while, working on sites for councils, Air New Zealand, and American clients too. So now is the time to celebrate the local scene and be proud of Webstock!
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