Blocks

Blocks are a way to flexibly extend your site. For example, you can put the recent news articles, blog posts, recent photos, recent discussion threads on your site, or advertisements (Google Adsense, maybe) or almost anything.

Basically there are only two types of blocks: one comes with the wysiwyg HTML editor, where you can put yuor own HTML into - like pictures, links and so on. The other is a bit more powerful, it is edited with the basic textarea "editor", but you can put there HTML and PHP code. Don't worry if you don'n know how to program in PHP, there are several ready-made blocks for you to use, and you can see all the available blocks in the Layout editor/Blocks tab.

How to use 

In the blocks tab you will see all the available blocks. The templates are something you can make a copy of into your own use, which you can then include on your site.

How to include the block into your site then? Well, go to the Layout editor'r edit tab where you will see the outline of your site's layout. Glance around and you will see a button that says 'add block' somewhere. Click it and you can place the block on your site.

Now comes the tricky part. In order to make the block actually show something, you will have to assign it some projects. For example, if you want to use a Recent Items block to show the most recent blog posts, assign the Blog project into the block. Or, if you want to show the recent photos from your photo album, assign the Photo Album project into that block.

The list of ready-made blocks is as follows:

There are 3 types of navigation ready-ade and if you need something more, you can edit one of those. One of them is a drop-down menu navigation (like on this site), the other two are side navigation; one is fully expanded and is expandable with the plus/minus buttons to expand it.

Recent Items 

This is handy for many things - you can set it to show the recent news articles, recent blog posts, recent photos from a photo album and the recent discussion threads. Use it! :)

This just shows the most popular posts - how many tmies they have been viewed. With some editing you can make this do other things too (study it). 

This show the search field and button, nothing more, nothing less. 

RSS Feeds

This shows the RSS feeds you have made. Note that you have to create the actual feeds first, in Project Properties. 

My HTML

This is for general HTML code, and this one comes with the wysiwyg editor, so it will be easy to edit. You can use this for lists, book recommendations and so on.

My PHP

This is is basically an empty block that you can extend with your HTML and PHP code. Recommended uses are, for example ads (Google Adsense and others).