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: Read more »
Emplode is a free concrete5 theme by Arcsin and c5mix, built using tableless XHTML and CSS. This theme is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License, which allows you to use and modify it for any purpose (personal and commercial), under the condition that you keep the provided credit links in the footer. Read more »
As the popularity of concrete5 increases, more and more sites are being powered by it. So, to celebrate the rise of concrete5 we’ve compiled a list of 25 sites powered by concrete5.
Concrete5.2.0 has officially been released and is now available for download. There’s some pretty exciting enhancements and fixes in 5.2.0. Read more »
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: Read more »
Concrete5.2 RC1 is now available for download and boasts some major updates and additions. The concrete5 team has done a great job with this one. Some of the major features and improvements include:
See the complete list of 5.2 RC1 features and improvements here. Or download the latest version.
FreshMedia 1.0 is a free, W3C-compliant, CSS-based concrete5 theme by styleshout.com and c5mix. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License, which means that you are free to use and modify it for any purpose. All I ask is that you include a link back to styleshout and c5mix in your credits. Read more »
Unbound 1.0 is a free, three-column, W3C-compliant, fixed-width CSS-based concrete5 theme by styleshout.com and c5mix.com. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License, which means that you are free to use and modify it for any purpose. All I ask is that you include a link back to styleshout and c5mix in your credits. Read more »
We are excited to release our first free concrete5 theme today!
Keep It Simple 1.0 is a free, W3C-compliant, CSS-based website template by styleshout.com and coverted to a concrete5 theme by c5mix.com. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License, which means that you are free to use and modify it for any purpose. All I ask is that you include a link back to styleshout.com and c5mix.com in your credits. Read more »
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. Read more »
