- The hosting business: overview The business pages for hosting companies: how to shape Exponential hosting plans, SLA and support options, billing options, marketing, partner programs, working with the project and 7x, and what the license means for a…
- The layouts editor The basics of layouts: zones and blocks, opening a layout, adding and arranging blocks, publishing, and which pages a layout is used on.
- Themes are extensions Why an Exponential theme is packaged as an extension with a design folder, what that gives you over editing the kernel's design folders, and how a theme relates to designs, siteaccesses and the design chain.
- The product lifecycle The lifecycle view of Exponential for a public body - release policy, supported versions, PHP and platform support, the roadmap, upgrade budgets, security patching, a yearly rhythm and the end of a contract.
- The products of the Exponential ecosystem The landing page of the products part of the ecosystem section - the Exponential 6 kernel, Velocity, Layouts, Intelligence, AdminUI and the admin designs, Exponential Basic and the Symfony-based Platform line including…
- The RAD tools tour: Setup > RAD A tour of Setup > RAD: the catalogue of extension points and its filters, the survey, the health check, and how every wizard works, from fields to preview to create or download.
- Total cost of ownership The cost lines of a website application on Exponential over its whole life, which of them the software makes smaller, and a worked five-year calculation to copy with your own figures.
- Total cost of ownership of an Exponential site The index of the total cost of ownership section - how to build a TCO model for a website or intranet on Exponential, the cost categories, license, hosting, staff, training, support and upgrade costs, on-premise versus…
- Transparency and freedom of information The transparency section of the government help: proactive disclosure, publication schemes, disclosure logs, request forms, redaction, meetings, decisions, spending, approval, version history and the audit trail in…
- Transparency for non-profits How a non-profit uses its Exponential site to be open about money, governance and decisions - annual publications and financial documents as downloads, board and minutes pages, version history and the tamper-evident…
- Trying the public demo How a learner uses the project's public demo for a first look - where it is, where the sign-in details are published, what demo mode means for you, what to try in the first hour, what the demo cannot teach you, and when…
- Upgrades and change Index of the pages on upgrading and changing a public-sector Exponential site under change management - the upgrade path, immutable releases, change advisory boards, staging, configuration managed by deployment, release…
- Versioning rules What the numbers of an extension's version mean, the rule that the last position keeps counting (1.0.9 is followed by 1.0.10), when to raise a higher position, and how Composer reads the numbers.
- Volunteers Everything a non-profit does with volunteers on its Exponential site - recruiting them with an information collector form protected by a form token and hCaptcha or reCAPTCHA, processing applications, a members area for…
- Web servers and engines Overview of the web server section for hosting companies: which servers and engines serve Exponential, how they compare, and a one-line guide to every page of the section.
- What a bundle is What counts as a bundle of Exponential, the parts every bundle is made of, what changes legally and practically the moment you hand a bundle to someone else, and the questions to answer before you build one.
- What a design is The basic idea of the Exponential design system: a design is a named folder of templates, stylesheets, scripts and images; a siteaccess picks designs; the kernel looks for every file through a fallback chain.
- What an extension is A folder under extension/ that adds settings, templates, modules, datatypes, workflow events and more without touching the kernel, and does nothing until switched on.
- What integrators do with Exponential The typical integration jobs around an Exponential site (CRM, ERP, PIM, DAM, identity, search, mail, payment, analytics, other CMSs), what Exponential plays in each, and which surface usually carries the data.
- What reselling means for free software Why you can charge money for offers built on Exponential although the software is free, what the GNU GPL v2 or later allows a reseller, what it asks when you distribute copies, and where the documentation license fits…
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