Concrete5 Tutorials

Beginner’s Guide to Concrete5

Bill Carone over at CarolinaGeek.com has put together a great resource - “Concrete5 for the Beginner.”  This handy PDF covers topics such as: how to setup and install concrete5, getting familiar with the concrete5 dashboard and backend, how to edit your concrete5 site (along with some tips on site design), understanding and using permissions, customizing pages, and installing and creating themes.  There is also a great Glossary of Terms.

The guide is broken up into the following chapters:

1. Beginning with Concrete5
2. Learning to Edit Your Content
3. Themes
4. Glossary of Terminologies

Download “Concrete5 for the Beginner.”

Ten Great Concrete5 Tutorials

Concrete5 is a great new Content Management System (CMS) that is gaining popularity very quickly. If you are wanting to learn how to use concrete5 for your next web project, here are 10 great tutorials about concrete5 to get you started:
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How to: Use Hyphens instead of Underscores in URLs by default

When you create a new page in concrete5, by default the Page Alias (what the URL for that page will be) uses underscores to separate words.  For example, if you were to create a new page titled Contact Us, concrete5 would automatically give that a Page Alias of contact_us. Now, from an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) standpoint, Google themselves recommend using hyphens instead of underscores in your URLs. Matt Cutts from Google says:
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How to: Add Breadcrumb Navigation to your Concrete5 Site

One of the useful elements that a website should have (especially if it is a large site) is breadcrumb navigation. It allows the user to easily see where they are located within the site, and provides an easy way to get back to other pages within the hierarchy of the site.

Creating breadcrumb navigation for a concrete5 site is easy - it simply involves creating a custom template for the Auto-Nav block. This is accomplished with a single PHP file.
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