Happy new year, site redesign soon!

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Check the long winded news post on our new year plans

http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/background/news-and-updates/...

Even has a screenshot of the new concrete5.org in there... kinda..

frz
 
12345j replied on at Permalink Reply
12345j
looks great!
melat0nin replied on at Permalink Reply
melat0nin
The redesign looks great, from what I can see!

I'm really glad c5 is coming on in leaps and bounds - we're integrating it pretty fully into our web offerings (i.e. it's the only CMS we recommend) and it's really exciting to see it flourish and to be a small part of that.

Well done guys, here's to great success in 2011!
Trivera replied on at Permalink Reply
Trivera
Will your itinerary carry you through the Midwest? Would be great to show you a little Milwaukee hospitality. :)
jessicadunbar replied on at Permalink Reply
jessicadunbar
Stop and visit us in Milwaukee! Looking forward to the new changes!
frz replied on at Permalink Reply
frz
hey drum up enough interest and we'll certainly go.

I was born and bred in Cleveland and my wife is from Kentucky, so its likely we'll be heading through that neck of the woods, no reason to not extend it out..

I'm pretty sure we'll be going through Twin Cities because of their mad c5 community. etc.
myFullFlavour replied on at Permalink Reply
myFullFlavour
Improvements in 2011 work well for me :)
ScottC replied on at Permalink Reply
ScottC
well maybe you can come down to sarasota :), when i move there. Sorry i missed out the last time you were in my neck of the woods frz.

-Scott
LucasAnderson replied on at Permalink Reply
LucasAnderson
Hell yes for the Twin Cities shout out. I've got a beer waiting for you.
nolmscheid replied on at Permalink Reply
nolmscheid
Would love to meet you in person!
PerryGovier replied on at Permalink Reply
PerryGovier
I see Lucas' beer and raise him two.

bump for the twin cities
madeforspace replied on at Permalink Reply
madeforspace
Censored, that's just mean :(

Have a very Happy New Year Concrete5 team.
I am looking forward to all the stuff planned for next year.
Shotster replied on at Permalink Reply
Shotster
Git! Yayyyy!

For your road trip, I think you should set up a blog and a Google map with your planned itinerary. That way we can all follow your adventure. You should update the map with geo-tagged photos along the way. And oh yeah, you'd better bring those adorable little sprogs too!

:-)

-Steve
katz515 replied on at Permalink Reply
katz515
Yay, I was thinking about moving to GIT too.

Have a happy new year from snowing New Year's Eve in Japan
SVijay replied on at Permalink Reply
SVijay
Looks good.

Happy New Year !!!
bencox replied on at Permalink Reply
bencox
Yay, come to England and meet us :)
rritz replied on at Permalink Reply
rritz
Well as I read there is going to be a focus on promotion this year there´s a suggestion from me, as a non-English speaker: there are some concrete5 sites in German out there
athttp://www.concrete5-cms.de/
there´s news, downloads, forum and support
(based in Germany) and there´s another German site, I don´t know more about because I didn´t bother to register athttp://www.concrete5.info

and athttp://www.concrete5.ch/
there´s also forums, support and links (based in Switzerland)
on this site there´s also a link to a french concrete5 site and a link to Remo Laubachers Bloghttp://www.codeblog.ch/de/.
I think he´s a developer and coder, his articles are far too technical for me to understand ...

How about incorporating a dedicated link section into your site with links to these non-English language sites. Maybe there are some more out there in Spanish and who knows what. Might help with getting more people from around the world to join in the concrete5 family. The German forums are very small still but I am sure they will grow with getting people from here to these places.

Well have a great New Year all of you
cheers from Austria
Mnkras replied on at Permalink Reply
Mnkras
Awesome, gotta love git.

Now I have to re-write my bash scripts >.>

Love the design

Happy New year from Costa Rica, it's nice and warm down here, ( and grasshoppers the size of squirrels!)
RadiantWeb replied on at Permalink Reply
RadiantWeb
gotta a beer with your name on it frz when you pass through Ohio. Dayton/Cinci area. You got a place to stay if you like as well.

Happy New Year!

C
frz replied on at Permalink Reply
frz
Great idea
hereNT replied on at Permalink Reply
hereNT
I don't even drink and I'd buy you a beer if you make it to the Twin Cities.

One thing that makes me wonder about moving to GIT is that it doesn't version empty directories, so when you check out a C5 install, you're missing a bunch of directories in the outer area. Not sure if that's a deal-breaker or not, but something to be mindful of...
Shotster replied on at Permalink Reply
Shotster
> One thing that makes me wonder about moving
> to GIT is that it doesn't version empty directories

I didn't realize that, but a little research revealed that there's a simple solution - just add an empty ".gitignore" to those directories.

-Steve
Fernandos replied on at Permalink Reply
Fernandos
That sounds so wonderfull Franz!!
2011 will become a great year then =))
Wow!

--
I've been using git for a long time now and here's an old commit log from a project where I wrote a script to overcome the empty dir problem.

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- Add gitignore files into empty folder to workaround "checking out empty folders problem"
find . -type d --empty | while read d; do touch "$d"/.gitignore; git add "$d"/.gitignore; done
or
find . -type d -empty | while read d; do touch "$d"/.gitignore; git add "$d"/.gitignore; done


Works in cygwin too, also there is something for the poort Windows users out there too:https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/MarkEmptyDirs...

It would be awesome if you had a git hook that pushes an anouncement on commits into irc/twitter could come in handy for news freaks like Mnkras and me :P

I use a rake task to scaffold packages :)
malthoff replied on at Permalink Reply
malthoff
Instead of promotion (what certainly is necessary)you should overdo the manual. To google topics with the additional: site:concrete5.org is still the only way for me to hopefully find the topics I'm looking for. Very basic things, or better the explaination how to do things, is buried deep down in thread posts and their replies. I guess that is by far the most thrilling construction site and one of the main reasons C5 is still "small".
frz replied on at Permalink Reply
frz
We're revamping the how-to section so its easier for people to submit their own how-tos and for searching to work across them. We'll also do what we can to make search more powerful as we go, although google is certainly a high bar to beat.

I also know there are a few printed books in the works.

The reality is however learning a new language/cms/framework is always challenging and people are going to do it in different ways.

Is there one topic or area of topics that you feel is missing? What is it our docs could benefit from more detail on?
hursey013 replied on at Permalink Reply
hursey013
How about converting the docs section into a wiki type format to leverage some manpower from the c5 community?

I come across little tips and tricks by pure accident all the time in the forum, it'd be nice to have a centralized place where users can contribute this info in an organized fashion.
warpol replied on at Permalink Reply
warpol
I'm a big fan of the wiki idea. I was talking to others on the forum about actually stitching together a wiki guide for site owners that's installable as a block. That way, owners can quickly access documentation contextually from within the site (a lot like they do with the file manager).

Seeing how we already provide documentation for clients already, I think this would be pretty useful. Could even eventually make it customizable as far as the information presented/level of depth.
frz replied on at Permalink Reply
frz
if you've got the time to put a few thoughts together in a meaningful way, just submit them as a how-to.
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/...

If you see something wrong on one of the doc pages, just post a comment with the ask a question button and we'll get it updated eventually.
12345j replied on at Permalink Reply
12345j
just submitted another athttp://12345j.co.cc/index.php/blog/cite...

any news on the first one I submitted?
frz replied on at Permalink Reply
frz
right now i believe we have two in the hopper that we need to approve - which is a bit on the back burner as we get the new site ready to launch.... but we will post soon!
12345j replied on at Permalink Reply
12345j
cool thanks
adamjohnson replied on at Permalink Reply
adamjohnson
Any chance there will be mobile templates with this new theme?

(Sent from my iPod Touch :-)
frz replied on at Permalink Reply
frz
It's likely he site will be mire mobile friendly but we haven't built a mobile specific theme yet
senshidigital replied on at Permalink Reply
senshidigital
Well done guys and Happy New Year!

Like what I see and the future looks bright for C5!
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JCinch replied on at Permalink Reply
E.F.F.I.N.G S.H.W.E.E.T

CAN'T WAIT! :D
DavidEgerton replied on at Permalink Reply
DavidEgerton
Concrete5 is a superbly flexible cms. I love the distinct ability to seperate the front-end in-page editing and easy custom editable options for users separately to the more complex back-end and dashboard where needed. Been my biggest frustration with developer led CMS solutions for years!

When you come to England I would love to meet up and buy you guys a beer!

Like the 2011 plans...