STK Book

Some weeks ago I have put down as much information in as little time as possible. The result can be found in the STK Book. It is for the moment the far best entry point for anybody trying to work with the STK. I also think that this pages contain some information valuable for those who are already familiar with the main concepts.

STK 1.1, next level

We improved STK based on projects and feedback given in workshops and I can say it is a major step forward. Doing that we added several new essential features and the concept planted in 1.0 are now building the fundamentals and are now applied more concisely.

Following some of the most prominent new features.
- fancy teasers / stages (caroussel, ..)
- new / events overview (calendar, ..)
- commenting
- categorization
- faq
- glossary

We will release in about 2 weeks a first beta or even a release candidate. For those who are most interested can download the milstone 4 version which we actually already use successfully in one of our projects.

STK: HTML and CSS structure

I have copied a page which describes the HTML and CSS concepts behind the STK.

This is mainly important for designers working on new themes.

The base: content 2 bean

Wolf asked me to elaborate a bit on all the billions of options you can configure in the template definitions (and site configuration). Before I start to do so I would like to point all to a new documentation page we have added to the documentation about generic configuration mechanism.

The essential chapter is the one about content 2 bean which describes how the configuration is transformed to java beans. The key point is, that if you want to know what you can configure you have to look at the java bean's code (resp. javadoc). This is also the mechanism which is used to setup up the module bean based on the configuration under /modules/mymodule/config

As a next step I will start to list most important properties of a STK template.

Release Notes

Gregory finally published the release notes which contains all relevant information about changes (see also the sub pages summarizing API changes & cleanup ).

As a template developer you should especially read the new templating features page.

What is a Theme

Philippe asked me to explain what a theme is. So I did on a new theme page.

STK: Themes

In STK 1.0 we started to support themes. By default we deliver the theme-pop. I added a quick note about how to create a custom theme.

In the later run this definitely deserves an extra page.