For some time we have wanted to be able to give you more fine control of a specific slot. For instance, what if you wanted to make the background color of a some text slots yellow, and some white? In the past that would have required two slots. Now, it can just be an option of the same text slot. In this screenshot, you can see that we allow you to switch between different types of slideshows. Make sure you try that out in the demo. It is probably our favorite new feature. We really sweated the details on making sure the option control was contextual. We hope you appreciate the effort.
There are many other new features and highlights, but for the moment I will leave you to find them in the
demo (remember: user is "admin" and password is "demo") or in the
documentation. (We promise to highlight these in future posts.)
So, what does this mean to you?
Well, it depends. If you are a PHP developer with
Symfony skills you can get started today. From our README:
Right now Apostrophe is best suited to PHP developers who want to make an intuitive content management system available to their clients. Apostrophe is very easy for your clients to edit, administer and maintain once it is set up. Right now, though, Apostrophe installations does call for some command line skills and a willingness to learn about
Symfony. We are working to reduce the learning curve.
If you are a front-end developer and want to get started using Apostrophe,
talk to us. We are in the process of working out a package where we set up a staging server with
Symfony and
Apostrophe running on it. We would train you on templating in Apostrophe and you should be up in running in a day or two.
If you don't want to go that route, here is what we suggest:
Front-end developers who do not yet have PHP and Symfony skills but wish to set up an Apostrophe site by themselves should consider tackling the Symfony tutorial to get up to speed. It's not necessary to complete the entire tutorial, but it helps to have at least a passing familiarity with Symfony.
If you just think Apostrophe is rad and you want one... like now,
just drop us a line. We would be happy to design and implement an Apostrophe site for you. You would be joining some good company if you do.
Surprise!
We (more accurately
Tom) decided to build an extra slot last night as a gift for making you wait an extra day. Isn't that nice of us (him)?
If you are observant you may have noticed an extra slot in the screenshot above. So without further ado, we present the Feed Slot (commonly referred to as the RSS Feed slot, but it will take Atom feeds as well). Use this to bring in your Twitter updates or maybe our
Apostrophe SVN code commit feed.
Feel free to thank us anytime. (We like expensive beer.)
This is really just the beginning. We hope you have an opportunity to
check out Apostrophe. We would love to
hear from you if you do. Comments below would be much appreciated (and read), as well.
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Don't forget to follow us on Twitter for on-going updates:
@apostrophenow
If you are a developer, the
Apostrophe Trac is the home of the open source community. On that site you can open support tickets, browse and contribute to the Wiki, and access and potentially contribute to the source code via svn (you'll need to contact us if you want write access).
Also, please join the
Apostrophe Google Group if you want to tap into the community of people using Apostrophe to get support and help.
