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Depending on the purpose behind your Composr website, it may be you will want to generate revenue from your site. Classified ads is one way to do this.
Taking a More Detailed Look at Composr Catalogues System
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Composr's inbuilt catalogue system is a very useful tool and can be used for a wide range of tasks relating to the display of information on your Composr website.
One of Composr's biggest strengths is its large amount of features. However, to a new user the Admin Zone may initially look a little overwhelming. This tutorial is a brief walk through it.
This tutorial shows some advanced usage of catalogue field references. It will show you how to create a reference from one catalogue to another, and then extract individual fields for display.
The Calendar in Composr has a wide range of different options which can be used for a wide range of purposes. As you can create many different event types, it allows you to use this for just about any purpose from displaying a list of fixtures for a sports club, a range of tour dates for a band or even a personal diary.
Many websites now make use of sliders to convey information to their visitors. It's incredibly common especially in the world of eCommerce as it allows several items to be displayed neatly together.
Composr has an inbuilt calendar system which is quite straight forward to use. The calendar system also allows for repeat event and for quite complex recurrence sequences.
Surveys make up an important part of many website types. They can be used to obtain feedback and information from your community members. A business can get important feedback.
Adding a poll to a community based site is probably one of the most common tasks you will need to complete. Polls can be a fun addition or used as a more important vote for an award or something similar.
For larger enterprises and companies the ability to have multiple levels of sign off for website content can be important. This is covered by the workflows addon (which out-of-the-box supports only galleries, but is extendible.
A task which I do on most sites I build with Composr is to convert the existing gallery block display so it displays as a carousel. This tutorial shows how.
In this tutorial I show how to make some edits to the Composr front page, while crossing into many important techniques and concepts for Composr and in general.
Like many other key elements of popular websites, Composr Galleries are included as a core feature of the CMS. The Gallery in Composr supports both Images and Videos.
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