Overview
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Learn how to move a static website to Winter, the free, open-source content management system that’s based on the Laravel PHP framework.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- How to turn a static website into a content-managed one
- What you should know
- Course project: The sample website
- Access the course files
- Local development configurations
- Winter CMS overview and installation
- Admin section overview: Dashboard, media, and settings pages
- The CMS page
- Exploring the default theme and creating your own
- Moving your website to Winter
- Extracting the layout
- Home and error pages
- Turning the main sections modular with partials
- Extracting text into content
- Using a plug-in to set the navbar
- Winter asset compilation
- Winter theme variables and asset customization
- Challenge: Customizing the 404 page
- Solution: Customizing the 404 page
- Magic Forms plug-in
- Clear cache widget
- Google Analytics plug-in
- Prepping your website for production
- Further your knowledge and connect to the community
