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Vance Lucas php|tek - May 26, 2011 stackbox CMS (Formerly Cont-xt) Monday, May 30, 2011

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Why another CMS? Monday, May 30, 2011

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Because this one is different* *Just like every other CMS on the market Monday, May 30, 2011

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What is a page? Monday, May 30, 2011

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Common Elements • URL • Title • Body • Parent / Hierarchy • Section / Category / Tags • Metadata • Template Monday, May 30, 2011

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Wordpress 3.1 Monday, May 30, 2011

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Title Text Drupal 7 Monday, May 30, 2011

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Anything Missing? Monday, May 30, 2011

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Is it editable? How? Monday, May 30, 2011

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Yes and No. It depends. Monday, May 30, 2011

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Do Your End-Users Know... Monday, May 30, 2011

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Probably Not. Good luck telling them to edit templates. Monday, May 30, 2011

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But That’s Not The Only Problem... Monday, May 30, 2011

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Which one is the main content area? Monday, May 30, 2011

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Which one is the main content area? Hint: None of them are. Monday, May 30, 2011

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The definition of a page these content management systems use is fundamentally flawed. Monday, May 30, 2011

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No CMS that uses this definition of a page agrees on the same solution to this problem, or even the same terminology. Monday, May 30, 2011

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Solutions(?) for “other” content • Widgets • Blocks • Modules • Plugins • Nodes • Extensions • Code Snippets • Hard-coded in Templates Monday, May 30, 2011

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Users are forced to edit pieces of the same page in completely different areas of a complex admin system several pages away from the content itself. Monday, May 30, 2011

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These methods are all workarounds to a flawed model that doesn’t work for pages. Monday, May 30, 2011

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What about Stackbox? Monday, May 30, 2011

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Title Text What is a page? Monday, May 30, 2011

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Title Text What is a page? We need a new definition Monday, May 30, 2011

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A page is a container for content. Monday, May 30, 2011

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Common Elements • URL • Title • Body • Parent / Hierarchy • Section / Category / Tags • Metadata • Template Monday, May 30, 2011

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Common Elements • URL • Title • Parent / Hierarchy • Metadata • Template Monday, May 30, 2011

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The page template defines the content. It is impossible to know the content - amount, placement, or type - ahead of time. Monday, May 30, 2011

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How do we define content areas? Designers will be working with templates. Monday, May 30, 2011

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Regions defined with CSS classes Homepage
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What about content on all pages? Headers, Footers, Sidebars, etc. Monday, May 30, 2011

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We also need global regions Homepage
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Unobtrusive markup for regions • Content regions defined with CSS classes • cms_region • Content for the current page • cms_region_global • Content shared across multiple pages • Any global template region that shares the same ID Monday, May 30, 2011

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How do we handle completely different types of content? Monday, May 30, 2011

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Different types of content • Text / HTML / WYSIWYG • Site Navigation • Blog / News • Event Calendar • Image/Video Slideshow • Contact Form • Product Listing • etc... Monday, May 30, 2011

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Every piece of content is a module so nothing is pre-defined. Monday, May 30, 2011

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How do we make it easy for end-users? Monday, May 30, 2011

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Kill the admin panel. Put all edit controls on-page, overlaid on top of the content the user wants to edit. Monday, May 30, 2011

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Modules are placed inside defined regions on-page with user-friendly drag-and-drop and point-and-click methods. Monday, May 30, 2011

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How do we make developers love modules? Monday, May 30, 2011

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Modules are self-contained MVC triads that define their own behavior and structure. Monday, May 30, 2011

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This is made possible with Hierarchical MVC (HMVC). Monday, May 30, 2011

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One More Thing... Monday, May 30, 2011

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Stackbox is multi-site capable. Monday, May 30, 2011

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Demo Time! Monday, May 30, 2011

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[email protected] http://brightb.it (405) 595-0101 Oklahoma City stackbox CMS http://stackboxcms.com Monday, May 30, 2011