Introduction
For the correct usage of uniCMS we must familiarize ourselves with the following components:
Web Sites, fully qualified domain name
Contexts, WebPaths like
/officesand/offices/employeesPage templates, with a selectable html template file through UI
Block templates, elements that render things within single or multiple pages
Navigation Bars, menu, footers, lists of things that can optionally fetch elements from Publications (titles, body, images …) to enrich its items
Carousels, image sliders … They are the basic components of the modern web so we decided to customize them as well
Pages, each webpath loads a page that’s modular container of the page blocks
Publications, a typical posts
Handlers, they intercept HTTP requests providing different perspective of a standard Page Immagine the List and View resources of a News pertaining to a context (WebPath) or a way to integrate a third party Django app in uniCMS.
How to start with uniCMS
The simpler and easier way to create a web site in uniCMS consist of the following steps:
Select the template to be used. Refer to Templates section of this guide
Define your blocks and Page templates to be inherited by your Website’s pages
Create a WebSite Domain name
Fill contents like Categories, Publications, Menus …
Create a WebPath, a root node like ‘/’ or a subdirectory
Create a Page with as much as blocks you’d like. Dispose menus, carousels and things with regular blocks or publication contents (or part of them) using placeholder blocks.
Simple Example
The quickest way to get started with uniCMS is to run a demo platform with a few basic websites, pages and contents.
This project aims to simplify the design and implementation of a typical web portals designed for Universities/Colleges/Academic world. You’ll find a simplified generalization of all entities aimed to build a common Content Management System (CMS).