Faceted Navigation with Hippo CMS and HST2 By vijay on June 2, 2010 — 7 mins read Categorizing and presenting large volumes of documents is a big challenge. Content can be organized into 3 different models - Using Hierarchies (organized into folders), Using Categories (attaching taxonomy category to a document) or by Using Tags. These three organization models in turn can serve as navigational models as well. When the content size grows larger these models hinder the accessibility of the content. This also affects the discoverability of the content, of course searching is an option but search itself cannot be considered as navigation since the users needs to be aware of what properties the content has and how to specify the criteria. Faceted Navigation solves this problem by providing a way to access the in series of refining queries. The users can drill down and access the content the way they want. Hippo CMS, along with HST provides excellent support for creating a faceted navigation of your content. In this article I'll try to explain how you can build your own faceted navigation in your website using Hippo CMS and HST. More
Multi Channel Publishing with Hippo CMS and HST By vijay on May 26, 2010 — 6 mins read When you are using Hippo CMS, the content and presentation logic are clearly separated. This cleaner approach to content management allows the developers to publish the content to various channels without much effort. In this post I'll try to explain how you can publish the same content from CMS and serve it using HST2 to different channels - Web Sites, Mobile (iPhone), iCal format and Layar (Augmented Reality Browser). More
→ Hippo CMS 7 WebDAV Support By vijay on May 24, 2010 — 1 min read The current status is that the WebDAV addon has default support for the Hippo assets folder. This was actually quite easy to develop. This can also be used to copy all assets from a CMS 6 instance directly into a running CMS 7 instance. All other folders are not WebDAV enabled yet, but I have... More
Google Maps Plugin for Hippo CMS By vijay on May 4, 2010 — 1 min read Almost done – will soon be on forge. More
Hippo CMS Image Browser Update By vijay on April 9, 2010 — 1 min read The next tag/version of Hippo CMS will have an updated image browser. The images can now be displayed both as List or a Thumbnail Grid, see the screenshots below. The Grid View is implemented using simple css and ul tags. Here’s an example of the HTML/CSS that is used to convert a ul with images... More