Web wizard flies ahead

There is a new a QuickStart guide on the Caliban website, which also doubles as an overview for anyone wanting to find out about the system.

Caliban's 'tokens' system has now been completed. Tokens are simple tags that you put into your pages and template. They access Caliban data. They can also give you access to some basic programming functions, without your having to be a programmer.


Caliban Components are active now too. Components are an important element of what we have come to term Calibanisation.

Calibanising a website means that, as far as possible you split it up into its component parts. These components then get used again and again throughout the site.

The beauty of this approach is that you only need to make a change once. Take the example of a navigation bar which appears on every page of your site. If you turn that bar into a Caliban component, then it can be incorporated into any number of templates, which in turn generate all the pages in the site. So to change the navigation bar on every page, all you need do is change one component.

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