This is a site I am working on for my consulting group. I am having to develop it in between client work, so it is developing a bit at a time. It hasn't been launched formally, but I would love feedback if anyone has any thoughts.
We migrated our website to Concrete5 from our old homegrown CMS which was getting harder to manage. We chose Concrete5 for its in-context editing, extensibility, the wasy it allows you to easily create your own theme and blocks, and architecture and design which we were already familiar with--ie MVC framework and use of Jquery.
We added a lot of our own stuff such as Suckerfish-style NAV, custom blocks and others though--hope some of these things come out of the box in future releases.
Overall Concrete5 rocks! Check out our website at:
we need the suckerfish add on in the marketplace with the launch of 5.3.. if someone else doesn't submit it to us, we're gonna have to do it ourselves.. one way or another it should be in there.
This is the perfect start... yet I am not familiar enough with concrete to be able to make the new autonav block (the superfish block you included in you files) recognizable to install... what am I missing? All I want to do is include superfish! (or any other alternative to a drop down menu) help a brotha out!
Franz are you releasing a jquery block in the new market place?
Thanks jpabellon for the Yogurt-Fish theme, I have installed the theme, yet cannot find how to activate the suckerfish menu's?
I presumed using a base install of 5.3.1.1 that the Examples menu item would have the suckerfish drop down menu's - but it doesnt appear to ahve these?
Can you explain how to activate it or get this going?
Good day I am a newbie
I need a vertical menu with drop down action - can you please point me in the right directions? Can I make this menu vertical?
Is thier a block I can add?
I download 5.3 but no dropdown meneu?
Thanks
I've used Concrete for several of my clients - they like it and so do I! Last night I migrated my own website over to Concrete, check it out:http://www.apheus.com
Great job with c5! I must say I think I tested just about every free web CMS there is before being lucky enough to bump into you. This was exactly what I was looking for... not too complex, easy to use, and good looking results without even trying too hard =)
The site I am building is in Finnish, as it is a non-profit org in Finland. But feel free to take a look at:
http://www.northeastcommercialflooring.com
This is the first full site I've done using c5. I must say that developing with and using c5 has been a great experience!
We are running our law firm website on Concrete5. Our site is fairly simple and uses the basic Concrete5 theme. I really am happy with this great CMS. It is quite a bit easier to use than other systems. I was able to get this set up in just a few hours.
Just completed a site for a small urology practice in Wilkesboro, NC. This is my first full site with Concrete5, and it was an absolute joy to work with. Definitely won't be my last.
Not wanting to be a total troll, as you might see from my other post, we are looking to use C5 for our website. But from the links posted below, it seems that many of the sites load rather slowly.
Have users found that a C5 powered site is slow, or is it that simply the sites listed below are hosted on low-powered servers??
What are people's general experience on the speed of C5 as a CMS for the viewers of a C5 website (not the admin)?
To-date I have installed about 8 c5 websites and none of them are slow. They are hosted at various locations from a GoDaddy VPS, Mosso Sites, and Mosso Server(running 256 MB RAM on Ubuntu Linux). The only times I have ever experienced any "lag" would be when in Edit mode and that I believe is because my PC is over 6 years old and on it's last legs lol.
Aha, thanks for the speedy replies and good to know.
My only experience is my sitehttp://www.prupert.co.uk/ running wordpress. It seems speedy to me, but I guess due to NAT issues, I at viewing it via my LAN and not how others would see it.
I have no quantitative data regarding page load times. However, the more tables you have in your database, the more queries and longer it takes to create page data. C5 has quite a few tables!
table count is not a good indication of application speed. not every page loads every table, and infact, having more tables that are properly indexed is often the fix to a slow site that is putting too much data in one table...
the reason c5 can be unique in performance today from site to site is there are a large number of connections to the server in any one web page call. Some routers have no problem with this, others aren't so happy about it at times. We're working on collapsing some of many files down into single files which should help this - but that is the only issue we have on the radar.
this is my site i am working on right now. Its not finished yet - need to write the texts, but the layout is finished and would like to hear your opinion about the site.
Another site for anyone to check out... http://www.townandcountryplanning.com.au/...
and no, I didn't do it in a day or even a week, at least not the first time. Just before handing over to the very happy client I managed to totally kill it (that bug is now fixed) and there were enough reasons to totally rebuild. Concrete5 the perfect CMS for us, and our clients. And we haven't touched the surface of what's possible yet.
The real reason for choosing c5 is the philosophy of these great guys who got it up and running ... if you haven't already, check outhttp://concretethestudio.com/2009/01/21/lord-maruna-is-displeased-w...
Well I hate to advertise, but this is some great system! I had some doubts about how much it could handle, but today after some non-concrete related issues the website was up and running!
Now 6 hours in: 115,024 views.
(The new site is replacing an older, already active one)
Not a bad site. My only comment is you should look into preloading the images. Currently each image in the header is only loaded when it needs to display.
It means you miss out on the nice fadeIn effect and instead loads in a "step down wipe" as the image is downloaded. On the second loop through however, the image is already in the cache and you get the fadeIn.
or you can just do it old school with addHeaderItem and a loop through the set or file array but the plugin and powerful jquery selectors makes it a 3min job :)
Previously, I would have trudged my way using Joomla. While, I admire the Joomla community I could never get excited creating a Joomla site. It always felt like too much work. I am lovin' C5.
I've only been using Concrete5 for a month but I'm already a fan.
Just launched a new C5 site for a client, originally it was going to be done in EZ, but after playing withn C5 there was no contest really. Making the template work in C5 was just too damn easy!!
I’ve just finishedhttp://www.amidesigns.co.uk please correct me if I am wrong, but I think that I am the first person to showcase a registration form directly into the page template… If anyone else has done this please let me know because I have a few questions that I would like to throw your way.
Hey, I just checked your site, and it's really nice. I am looking exactly the same slider you used on your site, can you please tell me a little bit more what did you use, and where can I get one?
Some fun stuff in there. The header images are actually an embedded randomizer block, it shows a different header from a scrapbook on each page load.
I have a ton of the typography fonts and colors built in to be editable, all of the headers + a link hover color for each, and the dashed lines in the sidebar and twitter feed can have the color updated too.
Content's still being stubbed in, and I need to plug in ecommerce still, but we went through training on updating the site tonight, and took down the under construction front page :)
http://cygnetfc.com.au/
Small town football club.. we wanted a site which generated local interest in players & supporters. No-one had much in the way of IT skills .. Concrete5 made it easy to build a site to our needs .. which also included letting various people contribute/update the site.
We try to change/update the home page every couple of days... add tipping competitions, surveys etc.
http://www.bethesda-stoke.info
This site was converted in full from a static site. The design was theirs and they wanted to keep it so I had to make it fit into C5. The menu down the left is a heavily modified version of the built-in auto-nav menu.
http://fusestudiosmedia.com