Getting Started
An Introduction to Oncord
An overview of Oncord's features and hosting infrastructure.
Creating Websites with Oncord
Watch a crash course covering how to create your first website.
Templating & UI Controls
Add additional dynamic features to your HTML markup, such as forms, galleries and navigation menus.
Creating a New Design
Working With Oncord Designs
A design defines the layout, fonts and style rules to be used across website pages, or e-mail marketing messages.
Importing Existing Design Template
This article discusses the basics of importing an existing HTML design template into the Oncord platform.
Changing The Default Post Display
This article will discuss how to alter the way posts display on a Oncord powered website.
Case Study: Implement a Responsive Design
This article provides an overview of how to take a cutup HTML website and implement it in the Oncord system.
Navigation
Website Navigation Overview
Despite being such a vital element of a website, navigation is often overlooked or neglected. This article will examine some different types of website navigation and give a general overview of how navigation on a Oncord powered website operates.
Dynamic Primary Navigation
This article explains how to implement dymanic primary navigation on a Oncord website. Dynamic navigation allows website navigation to automatically populated with pages created in the admin console.
Secondary Navigation
How to implement secondary navigation on a Oncord powered website, such as sidebar navigation. Secondary navigation provides extra navigation items to assist the user in navigatiing the website.
Breadcrumb Navigation
Breadcrumb navigation can be useful for enhancing usability on websites with a large number of pages.
Post Article Navigation
This article will explain how to create a navigation menu which is automatically populated by post articles.
CSS Styling Navigation
Unsure about how to css style Oncord navigation menus? This article explains some techniques for CSS styling navigation, including the style rules relevant to drop down menus.
Page Redirection
This article explains how to setup page redirectors, using either a hard-coded method or through the admin panel.
Pagination And "Show More"
When loading a large amount of data, instead of increasing page load time you can opt to display a "Show More" button.
Posts
Show Post Categories
Show All Post Categories associated with a Post
Filter Posts By Date
Display Posts on the website based on their date.
Content & Image Rotators
Rotating Image Banner
Various methods for implementing a dynamic image slidshow on a Oncord powered website.
Custom Rotator Controls
The classcontrols attribute on the Oncord rotator allows you to create totally custom rotator controls for changing between rotator items.
Different Banner Image Per Page
By using attached media folders, an image rotator and a data repeater, you can allow a different banner images to be used for each page on the site.
Galleries & Images
Controlling Image Resizing
Take advantage of Oncord's automatic image resizing, cropping and thumbnail generation and control how images are automatically scaled.
Advanced Galleries
This article will give you an overview of how to implement an image gallery on Oncord, outlining the different techniques available to you.
Forms
Get Started: Contact Enquiry Forms
Oncord features a powerful api for generating feature rich forms to tackle any situation. The following guide will walk through the setup of a basic contact form.
Login Forms
This article explains how to implement a member login form on a Oncord powered website.
Add Contact To Groups
This tutorial will show you how to add a contact to a group as part of a form submission.
Newsletter Signup
A simple implementation of a Oncord newsletter signup form.
Two Stage Registration Forms
A two-stage registration form requests a user sign up with only an e-mail address or limited details, and then asks for more details on a second page
Auto-Logout and Redirect After Submission
Useful for in-store forms where a terminal or iPad is shared between users for data capture.
Applications might be: In-store electronic feedback form at point of sales, electronic competition form on an iPad at a tradeshow.
Website Search
Add a search box to your website design or a page on your site.
Product Enquiry Form
Create a product enquiry form, which requests basic contact fields and shows a list of products.
Calling custom PHP functions with OnSubmitServer
Make calls to the Oncord API or a custom web service by writing a PHP function that is called when the form is submitted.
eCommerce Design
Shopping Cart Buttons
How to implement a cart button which displays the number of items in the cart, or the current cart total.
Custom Payment Forms and Donations
In this article, you will see how to create a custom form which allows you to inject a product into the shopping cart and accept payment.
Advanced
Working With PHP
PHP is used to retrieve and manipulate data stored within Oncord, such as contacts, pages or products.
Database Filters
Learn how to filter results from your database, for example when using an <ss:data:repeater>.
Properties Array
Explore the more advanced data querying options offered by the Properties Array.
Other
Client Handover
Setup your client with administrator login, and ensure payment information is entered into the account.
Addthis Social Sharing Tools
AddThis offers a good solution for implementing a wide array of social sharing solutions on your website, and is totally compatible with Oncord.
Calendars
Implement a calendar on a Oncord based website. The calendar populates with post articles of a certain category, using the post date to place the post in the correct position on the calendar.
Detecting Mobile Devices
Determine whether the user is running a mobile device.
Website Design & Cutup
When creating a website design to be sent away for the cutup process, there are certain standards and practises that can help ensure the cutup process goes smoothly.
Website Maintenance Message
Using some simple server code, you can easily bring a website down for maintenance or construction.
Multilingual Websites
Create page trees for the different languages you want to present on your website.