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Creating a drop down navigation is an old technique by now but it’s still used in a lot of cases to hide parts of a navigation. In addition to the plain CSS menu I wrote more than 2 years ago, I decided to write a new tutorial which uses JavaScript as well. You might ask [...]

Today’s article is about concrete5 again after a long time without anything about concrete5 on codeblog.ch. The example we’re going to look at takes a few ideas and code snippets from my book about concrete5. If you ever had a closer look at the file manager you’ve probably seen that if you open the file [...]

There has been an interesting feature in concrete5 which can improve your sites performance noticeably. If you log in to your site and look at the Sitewide Settings screen, you can see this box: As already mentioned on the screenshot, these settings improve the performance by caching various outputs generated by blocks. In order to [...]

The Concrete5 content block uses TinyMCE as its WYSIWYG editor. Thanks to this decision, we are able to use several plugins most Concrete5 users haven’t thought about. One feature I really like is the “template” plugin which allows you to create html snippets which you can insert into the content block. In this tutorial I’m [...]

It hopefullly doesn’t happen very often but sometimes a user might enter an address which doesn’t exist. In most situations a simple page is displayed, telling him that the page doesn’t exist. Having some more detailled information can be very helpful, especially when you just relaunched your website. Google & Co need a while to [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve posted the last tutorial. Due to some unexpected events I finally found some time to write a new one. The default autonav Block in Concrete5 allows you to add a navigation/menu to your site in almost no time. But as soon as you want to use images it get [...]

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 [...]

Have you ever tried to create a short preview text using PHP? Did you just count the characters and ended up having texts with a completely different width like shown on this picture? This tutorial describes a small method which calculates the real width of a string and lets you create better looking preview texts!

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:

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.