Build your prototype website in 10 easy steps
Feb 24
Getting started with Cloud CMS for a website takes minimal setup:
- Fork a copy of https://github.com/gitana/sdk
- Note the URL of your repo; you’ll need this later…
- Login to your tenant or signup for a trial of Cloud CMS
- When prompted upon login
- create a Web Content Management starter project
- From the resulting Project Dashboard
- navigate to “Applications” in Manage Project
- Select “Sample Web Application” > Deployments
- Tick the radio button on the right
- Navigate to Selected > Undeploy (upper right)
- Select “Source”
- Set “URL of Repository” to your forked version (from Step #1)
- Keep Base Path set to /sample-website
- “Update” to save new settings
- Select “Deployments” again
- Tick the radio button on the right
- Navigate to Selected > Deploy (upper right)
- Click on one of the URLs listed to view your site
- Choose either the Product Catalog or City Guide sample
- Review, reverse engineer, and otherwise hack away at the
- Type Definitions and instances; add you own items
- Using the left nav toolbar
- Select Content > Content Products > Create Content (for example)
- Dust templates, under /sample-website/public/templates
- Easily implemented with our query helper
- Done with standard DustJS syntax
It’s a great end-to-end reference site, showing all key components of Cloud CMS in action. For other framework examples or questions, just give us a shout!