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concrete5: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition - Second Edition

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concrete5: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition - Second Edition

Overview of this book

concrete5 is an open source content management system (CMS) for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets. concrete5 is designed for ease of use, and for users with limited technical skills. It enables users to edit site content directly from the page. It provides version management for every page and allows users to edit images through an embedded editor on the page. concrete5 Beginner's Guide shows you everything you need to get your own site up and running in no time. You will then learn how to change the look of it before you find out all you need to add custom functionality to concrete5. concrete5 Beginner's Guide starts with installation, then you customize the look and feel and continue to add your own functionality. After you've installed and configured your own concrete5 site, we'll have a closer look at themes and integrate a simple layout into concrete5. Afterwards, we're going to build a block from scratch which you can use to manage a news section. We're also going to add a button to our site which can be used to create a PDF document on the fly. This book also covers some examples that show you how to integrate an existing jQuery plugin. concrete5 Beginner's Guide is a book for developers looking to get started with concrete5 in order to create great websites and applications.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Pop Quiz Answers
Index

Time for action – adding a slideshow gallery


Follow these steps to add the slideshow gallery we created:

  1. In the dashboard, go to the file manager and select all files you'd like to appear in the gallery by ticking the checkbox next to the picture:

  2. As shown, click on Sets in the drop-down box above the files. We're going to use a new set of files to access our files from the slideshow block. In the dialog which appears, enter the name of the new set and tick both the checkboxes. Click on Update and all selected files will now belong to the new set:

  3. Go to the page where you'd like the gallery to appear.

  4. Enable the edit mode and bring up the block list by clicking on Add To Main. From the list, select Slideshow.

  5. In the Type box, select Pictures from File Set. The interface changes and concrete5 automatically selects the first available set. Since we only have one, you don't have to change it. If you're using the original slideshow template, you can specify the display duration and fading time, but...