Symphony development
I was first introduced to Symphony while working at Airlock, where I worked on sites such as the Teenage Cancer Trust and Road to V.
Symphony is lightweight, flexible, and can be used to build just about anything. It uses XSLT as its templating language, which makes it great for developing reusable front-end code. I have built sites using a wide range of contributed extensions, and have also developed my own extensions from scratch using PHP.
The user interface is perfect for clients - clear & elegant, which is why I use Symphony for the majority of my freelance projects.
Please take a look at some of the sites I have developed using Symphony, and get in touch if you would like me to help with a project.
Symphony blog posts
Textarea encoding issue in Symphony
In my last blog post I was writing about an HTML issue in Drupal, and I “quoted” a few words in my post. When previewing the post, I was surprised to see that my quotes were appearing as "Quoted Text". ...
10th January 2011
read more »Pimping the Subsection Manager
Excuse the title. In my last post, I talked about using Markdown instead of a WYSIWYG editor. But one thing that TinyMCE and CKEditor does provide (with extensions) is the ability to upload images into the content area of a site. ...
28th December 2010
read more »Markdown vs WYSIWYG in Symphony
I want to talk about the benefits of using Markdown instead of a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor such as CKEditor or Tiny MCE. I’m a fan of using Markdown in place of WYSIWYG editors for several reasons, mainly because WYSIWYG editors ...
17th December 2010
read more »Combining Data Sources in Symphony
I have been in several situations where I have wanted a “complex data source” in Symphony. A couple of examples of what I mean by a complex data source are ...
11th December 2010
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