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Custom concrete5 User Reports

Learn how to write custom concrete5 user reports by subclassing the UserList class.

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A Chilling Effect: Lawsuits and Remix Culture

In which it turns out we're all kind of screwed.

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Designing for a Moving Web

Learn how andrewembler.com uses liquid grid layouts, flexible font sizes and elastic image spacing to create a site that looks good on mobile phones as well as large widescreen monitors.

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AndrewEmbler.com Visual Refresh - Summer 2011

I've revamped my web presence yet again. I really need to get together an archive of all of them over the years. This design is pretty cool for a number of reasons. I think anyone with a concrete5-powered blog might find some of these approaches useful, especially if it has a technical focus.

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concrete5 Version 1: A Two-Year Comparison

Compare the features and screenshots of the very first version of concrete5, released two years ago (September 30, 2008) with version 5.4.1, which will be available in days.

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Webinar: concrete5 & the Zend Framework

On 9/21/2010 I presented a webinar for Zend (the PHP company) on how we've used the Zend Framework to solve some tough problems in concrete5. It is now online.

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Basic MVC in concrete5

concrete5's friendliness toward developers extends beyond blocks and add-ons. An easy-to-understand but very useful MVC syntax powers concrete5's single pages and page types, allowing for helpful separation between code and content.

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concrete5 and the Zend Framework

Learn how concrete5 makes use of the Zend Framework, and why.

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Review: Das Keyboard Professional

I get down and dirty with my latest purchase, a keyboard I grew enamored with at SXSW. Full review with audio, screenshots, and (non-scientific) results.

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concrete5 Add-On Developers: Create Your Own concrete5 Demo (5.4.2.2 and earlier)

This article provides guidelines and code to let concrete5 add-on developers or anyone setup a concrete5 demo, complete with a limited administrative user, auto-installed packages, and locked down permissions. The demo can easily be reset at any time.

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JavaScript, jQuery and concrete5

An introduction to integrating a wide variety of rich JavaScript functionality into the front-end of your concrete5 applications and blocks.

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concrete5 Primer: Auto-Nav Block

Learn how to build navigations in concrete5, including what the Auto-Nav does and what its options mean. Then explore some practical examples, how you can control the way it displays and links pages, and how to theme and extend it.

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Build a Single-Page Powered Editing Interface for concrete5 Pages

Learn how to build a simple FAQ system from scratch, including a single page interface for listing and sorting entries, a single page interface for editing entries, a page list template for displaying them.

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SEO Tip: Force concrete5 Pages to Display at One URL

Keep users from landing on concrete5's index.php?cID=xxx pages with a handy, simple snippet of code.

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Apple iPad, Private APIs, and a Tempest in a Teapot

Programmers lambast Apple for using private APIs in its own software – but where do you think public APIs come from?

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