CityDesk NewsNews about CityDesk, Fog Creek Software's Desktop Content Management System(Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Cedar Valley Systems has developed an impressive site for the Nazareth Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Designer Jason Wellnitz: &8220;I designed the site to use CityDesk as the site's main content management system. Last week I trained the whole staff on how to update articles. They were all very receptive.&8221; Check out, for example, the news section and the ministries section, which allows Church staffers to keep their own sections of the site up to date.http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/October/24.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Munich-based CityDesk VAR Telepark has four impressive new CityDesk sites (in German) which really show off the versatility of CityDesk (and the great graphic design talents of Telepark): http:www.zk6.de http:www.remise-schloss-fussberg.de http:www.shirtcompany-muenchen.de (with shopping cart functionality) http:www.agentur-unitone.de Also check out Herff.com. Steven den Beste emailed us: &8220;When you look at Blogger sites, or Manila sites, there's usually a striking...http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/October/23.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Paul Adams explains how to provide a custom 404 error page that's more useful than the default. Here at Fog Creek, we use CityDesk to generate our 404 error page; there's no reason your 404 page can use CityScript and templates. With some creativity you can do really cool stuff. For example, set a keyword &8220;(404)&8221; on the most popular pages of your site, then use CityScript with the condition (keyword_contains "(404)") so that anybody mistyping a URL at your site gets an index of.http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/October/22.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Jesse James Garrett: &8220;The advent of content management systems has been a boon in many ways, but the readability of URLs is not one of them. Databases don&8217;t give assets names; instead, they need formulas for retrieving those assets. CMS developers, figuring nobody reads URLs, simply embedded those formulas right there. Sometimes that would manifest itself as just an inscrutable number; at other times, the URL would include a whole string of parameters needed for the CMS to...http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/September/26.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Peter-Paul Koch: &8220;Apart from being the most... er... graceful term in the web's working glossary, &8216;graceful degradation&8217; is a simple but powerful technique. The first step in adapting that technique successfully is fluid thinking: accepting the unpredictability that rules the user interface of the web.&8221;http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/September/25.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Hal Helms: &8220;Scope creep is the pejorative name we give to the natural process by which clients discover what they really want.&8221; Joel on Software: &8220;Customers Don't Know What They Want. Stop Expecting Customers to Know What They Want.&8221;http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/September/20.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Dive Into Accessibility, 30 days to a more accessible web site, brought to you by Mark Pilgrim, the author of Dive Into Mark.http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/August/21.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) There's a new online demo of CityDesk. It's about 6 minutes long, a 2 MB download, in Flash format, and does a good job of illustrating the benefits of CityDesk over a typical web page editor.http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/August/20.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Usability Guru Jakob Nielsen: &8220;Another example of harmful Web technology comes with the increasing use of style sheets, which let web designers specify the exact size of text down to the pixel. Unfortunately, many designers are using this ability, leading to reduced readability of an increasing number of websites.&8221; What Jakob is really complaining about is that Windows versions of IE do not give the user the ability to change the font size when the designer has specified an exact...http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/August/19.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) John Conners, who has one of the nicest CityDesk sites around, has written a tool that creates monthly calendars for CityDesk. Cool! CityDesk is Not a Typewriter Are you "sick" of 'ugly straight quotes' and -- worst -- double dashes When you want your web pages to look &8220;really nice&8221; &8212; for that special occasion &8212; you need to use Unicode entities in your HTML source. And one of the easiest ways to do this is by defining a few CityDesk variables. For...http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/August/16.html |