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Concrete5 has a nice form block which allows you to create a contact form within a few seconds. You don’t even need to have any html or php skills to create a simple file upload form. Unfortunately this block isn’t very easy to style. It uses some html markup which makes it a bit tricky [...]

UPDATE: The latest eAccelerator version doens’t contain the PHP API anymore. It therefore does no longer work with Concrete5! The upcoming version 5.4 is going to have support for APC and memcache. Sorry! You want more speed with Concrete5? Make sure you’re using eAccelerator! In this tutorial I’ll explain how to install eAccelerator on a [...]

Sometimes content should be presented in two columns. In this tutorial I’ll describe a possible solution that included a very simple block to display a staff/team member with a description on the right side of it. The result will look like this:

If you ever built your own Concrete5 theme you might have wondered why there are usually two css files – main.css and typography.css. In this tutorial I’ll show you some possibilities of typography.css. You should have basic knowledge about building a theme for Concrete5. Read this tutorial in case you never built one before: http://www.codeblog.ch/2009/01/concrete5-theme-erstellen/

Concrete5 offers you a lot of blocks you can add to your page. But sometimes you might want to have a certain block on every page. How do you do that? There are two possibilities!

UPDATE November 2011: There’s another drop down tutorial using the SooperFish plugin, check out this page http://www.codeblog.ch/2011/12/concrete5-sooperfish-drop-down-navigation/ A website needs a navigation. If you just started using Concrete5 you’ll realized that its navigation block looks simple but sometimes isn’t. Especially if you want to customize the look beyond css styling. I’m going to show you [...]

Concrete5 Custom Templates DEUTSCH The Content Management System Concrete5 supports custom templates for existing blocks. Using this feature enables you to modify the layout of the core elements, without actually touching the core, which offers you an easy to way to modify your layout if css isn’t enough.

Your own site with your own layout – you want to be unique, don’t you? This tutorial will show you, how you can create a Concrete5 Theme within a few minutes. You should have basic HTML and CSS knowledge. PHP experience isn’t required, I’ll explain all the PHP code. In this tutorial, I’ll start with [...]