May 2007
Advanced Advanced Indexes
Why are they called Advanced Indexes? In the original production versions of MonkeyCMS there were a number of independent index functions - these were both basic in their functionality and complex in their implementation. These indexes are still available within MonkeyCMS for compatibility reason...
Date: 12-05-2007 15:54 Type: TutorialsAuthor: Colin Polonowski Views: 3240 Comments: 0
Structuring Your Content
Introduction Content is the focus of everything you do with MonkeyCMS - the creation and layout of content are what differentiates your site from another. This tutorial will describe how to define your content and how content is structured (the content hierarchy). The hierarchy is only a descript...
Date: 12-05-2007 15:18 Type: TutorialsAuthor: Colin Polonowski Views: 2953 Comments: 0
Improving Performance
Filesystem Caching of Templates The biggest thing you can do is switch to using the filesystem for caching templates rather than the database. This is reasonably straightforward if you have server access. 1. Create a directory in a non-web accessible area that can be writte...
Date: 07-05-2007 14:53 Type: TutorialsAuthor: Colin Polonowski Views: 2965 Comments: 0
Building Custom Index Pages
MonkeyCMS has a powerful modular templating system and each page is made of reusable building blocks. There are two kinds of pages - Content Pages and Index Pages. Content Pages are defined by Content Templates while Index Pages are built entirely from Fixed Templates. Any Fixed Template can be cons...
Date: 07-05-2007 14:32 Type: TutorialsAuthor: Colin Polonowski Views: 4463 Comments: 0
Tutorials
We've added a new tutorials page. This is in addition to documentation and offers a more practical approach to help you develop your MonkeyCMS powered site.
Date: 07-05-2007 13:20 Type: NewsAuthor: Colin Polonowski Views: 934 Comments: 0
Adding a Content Chart
Requirements The chart processing is server intensive and therefore MonkeyCMS does not allow real-time processing in any instance. Adding a content chart is reasonable straight forward but does require server access allowing you the ability to schedule tasks (either through Windows 'Scheduled T...
Date: 07-05-2007 13:11 Type: TutorialsAuthor: Colin Polonowski Views: 4214 Comments: 0
Demo Site
We have added a new demo site to give you a chance to see MonkeyCMS in action on a different sort of site design and layout. This will be added to and developed over time to show off some of the more advanced features of MonkeyCMS. The initial template on show is based on the excellent Business Des...
Date: 02-05-2007 13:37 Type: NewsAuthor: Colin Polonowski Views: 927 Comments: 0