- Launch checklist for apps A checklist for the week before an app on Exponential goes live - the production installation and its APIs, accounts and credentials, content and entry points, images, caching and load, error handling, monitoring…
- OW Simple Operator: limitations and risks What OW Simple Operator does not do and where it bites - the pipe form that drops an argument, null arguments that are left out, no parameter checks, no compile-time optimization, name clashes, caching and the security…
- App store review readiness General advice for preparing an app on Exponential content for app store review - a reviewer account, content that is present and stable, sign-in and account deletion questions, privacy statements about what the app…
- Software engineer FAQ Short answers to the questions software engineers ask first about Exponential - language and versions, frameworks and PSRs, ORM and migrations, databases, servers, statics, caches, tests, releases, security reports…
- Glossary for software engineers The Exponential terms a software engineer meets, from audit trail and baseline to zygote, each defined in one or two sentences with the page that explains it, and mapped to the nearest term of other frameworks where one…
- Life-cycle examples 206 examples along the life of a site - plan, build, launch, maintain, redesign, migrate - each one task done in the Layouts editor and with templates, worked out on the Fit & Healthy site.
- Plan examples, every page The 35 examples of the plan phase of a site's life, each one task done in the Layouts editor and with templates. Decide page types, layouts, menus, languages and who changes what, before building.
- Make an inventory of the page types Before building, list which kinds of pages the site has and which layout each gets: the content classes in the tree and the layout mappings.
- Our goals: why Exponential exists and why we invite you to join Why 7x and the developers of Exponential keep this code alive and current, what "the problems are already answered" means in features a site gets without extra work, what the freedoms of the GPL give you and others, how…
- Choose the layout type for a page type The layout type fixes the zones: Header / Main / Footer (layout_2) for most Fit & Healthy pages, Header / Left / Right / Footer (layout_4) for a sidebar.
- Plan the shared zones first Decide which zones every page shares (header, footer) and which some share (prefooter), before building page layouts.
- Decide who changes what Split the site between editors (content and Layouts) and developers (templates, settings) before building, so each change has an owner.
- Prototype a page in a draft Build the layout in the editor, look at it, and throw it away with Discard: nothing is published until Publish layout.
- Wireframe a page with titles and spacers Lay out the sections of a new page with Title blocks and Spacers before the real content exists.
- Plan which lists are hand-picked and which fill themselves For every list, decide manual collection (editors pick) or dynamic collection (a query) before building.
- Plan how items look in lists Item view types (Standard, Overlay, Card, Line, Mini, List item, with or without intro) decide each item's look; plan them per list.
- Plan the header and footer menus On the Fit & Healthy theme the header menu and the footer's first line are menu.ini lists and the footer's second line is content; plan who maintains which.
- Plan a second language Each language version is a siteaccess with its own settings (menus) and can get its own layouts through a Siteaccess condition.
- Plan the mapping priorities The first enabled mapping by priority whose targets and conditions match wins; plan priorities so specific mappings come first.
- Plan your design extension One extension for everything site-specific: templates, stylesheets, settings, translations - named, versioned and activated in the right place.
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