Hello everybody! I finally recovered from the illness and can work as before. Here is my first after-illness post. Recently I faced with the following problem: I transfered CMS Made Simple from one host to another. Made everything correctly: updated config files, etc. But admin page started to show nothing, i.e. I always got blank […]

You might know appendChild method which allows you to add an element to the end of another. Like this: someParentObject = document.getElementById(“someid”); … someChildObject = document.createElement(“div”); someChildObject.innerHTML = ‘Content’; // append the someChildObject to the end of someParentObject someParentObject.appendChild(someChildObject); But what to do if you want to add the child object to the very beginning […]

I’m glad to introduce a new concrete5 theme: inove. This theme is a very popular one among wordpress users. There are over 70,000 downloads and this number is still growing. Most of the people like this theme, so we think it will be a success among concrete5 builders as well. The theme has right sidebar […]

I had to customize sitemap.xml for my concrete5 to suit my needs. You might find it useful I hope. So, the first problem is that change frequency for all pages defaults to ‘monthly’. There are 2 ways to solve this problem: If you want to change ‘monthly’ to another value (for example, ‘weekly’) for all […]

New theme for concrete5 (again converted from WP)

Installing apache, php and mysql on ALT Linux I’ve installed ALT Linux Lite on my laptop because windows XP worked very slow there (my laptop is outdated :)). When I decided to install apache there, I got some problems. This post is for people who have troubles with gcc on ALT linux. Here is the […]

Recently I’ve been searching for a database modeling system in order to complete a documentation for my new project. I found an opensource solution named fabForce DBDesigner 4. I was amazed by its options and functionality. And it’s totally free (open source, the project is available on sourceforge). I use only PHP/MySQL in my major […]

This very website is using vistalicious theme written by DailyBlogTips.com If you like the theme you can also use it on your concrete5-running website. It supports right sidebar and left sidebar layouts, more details can be found here: http://www.smartwebprojects.net/concrete5-design/vistalicious-theme/ It’s released under GPL license, so it’s absolutely free.

If you face with an error stating "Invalid file extension" when you try to upload some file to your concrete5 website, don’t worry. You can fix it by yourself. I got such error when tried to upload a .zip archive. So here is a solution: 1. Open /concrete/config/base.php 2. Find the following line: define(‘UPLOAD_FILE_EXTENSIONS_ALLOWED’, ‘*.flv;*.jpg;*.gif;*.jpeg;*.docx;*.xla;*.png;*.swf;*.doc; […]

I was really impressed by concrete5. It provides so many ways for its customization. It took me not so much time to convert one of my templates into concrete5 theme. The process is really simple for anyone having basic experience in web development. So the basic steps are: 1. Create a new folder in themes […]