http://blog.aissac.ro Company blog Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:59:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the fourth episode of Radiantcasts you'll see how to use the Radiant Mailer Extension - an extension for Radiant CMS that allows you to create 'contact us' and other mail-bound forms. Tip: watch in full screen Content short note on installation presenting a basic 'contact-us' form different options ... http://blog.aissac.ro/2009/12/12/episode-4-radiant-mailer-extension-basic-usage/ In the third episode of Radiantcasts you'll see how to address some compatibility issues between Globalize2 Extension and some other extensions. The screencast is focused on presenting how to install and use Globalize2 Paperclipped Radiant Extension which allows you to easily translate Paperclipped assets using the admin interface. Tip: watch ... http://blog.aissac.ro/2009/11/02/episode-3-radiant-globalize2-compatibility-issues/ You have here the second episode of Radiantcasts In the following screencast you'll see how to install and use the Globalize2 Extension. This extension allows you to easily translate the content of your site into any number of languages. It uses the Globalize2 Rails plugin based on the I18N API available ... http://blog.aissac.ro/2009/10/25/episode-2-radiant-globalize2-extension/ This is the first episode in a series of Radiant CMS screencasts we are launching: Radiantcasts In the following screencast you'll see how to install and use the Sitemap XML extension and why should you use it. Tip: watch in full screen Resources: Radiant Sitemap XML Extension official page Radiant Sitemap ... http://blog.aissac.ro/2009/10/20/episode-1-radiant-sitemap-xml-extension/ The Globalize2 extension for Radiant CMS allows you to easily translate the content of your site into any number of languages. It uses the Globalize2 Rails plugin based on the I18N API available in Rails since version 2.2 Features: Provides the ability to translate your pages (title, slug, breadcrumb, description, keywords) ... http://blog.aissac.ro/2009/10/16/radiant-cms-i18n-for-site-content-with-the-globalize2-extension/ The new Blade interface from Radiant is awesome, but you need to modify a little your extensions. We did that and here's what we got: Radiant Custom Fields extension (github repository): An extension that allows you to add custom fields to pages. Radiant Database Mailer extension (github repository): An extension that adds database persistence ... http://blog.aissac.ro/2009/10/15/our-extensions-are-ready-for-radiant-cms-09/ Announcing the Radiant Sitemap XML Extension. Features Allows you to specify in Radiant admin which pages appear in the sitemap; Gives you the possibility to set the change_frequency and priority per page. Check out the source code on github. For installation and configuration details visit the Radiant Sitemap XML Extension documentation ... http://blog.aissac.ro/2009/08/30/radiant-sitemap-xml-extension/ Forms validation on the client-side is very important as it saves time and bandwidth, and gives you the option to point out to the user what they've done wrong in filling out the form. Having said that let me present you the way we do client-side validation of the email ... http://blog.aissac.ro/2009/08/30/radiant-mailer-extension-client-side-validation/ Radiant Database Mailer Extension is used to add database persistency to emailed forms, and it just got fresh features. Besides the possibility to save posted form fields and entire email messages to the database and export data to CSV and XLS, now it saves e-mail attachments using paperclip. Any attachments that ... http://blog.aissac.ro/2009/08/12/radiant-database-mailer-extension-uploads-files-using-paperclip/ The Radiant SNS Extension is of great help at separating stylesheets and javascripts from other site content stored in pages. And if you use it with Radiant SNS Minifier Extension it adds the ability to minify CSS and JS files. This way you can keep the code the way you ... http://blog.aissac.ro/2009/07/03/internet-explorer-problem-using-minified-css-with-radiant-sns-minifier-extension/