A description of SilverStripe 4 and its features both for developers and non-developers. It includes links to a demo site where you can play with some of Silverstripe's features.

I created a theme in Silverstripe 4 which is aimed at small businesses who want to convert their online traffic to leads. It is available for download so carry on reading for those details. I created it when I was traveling around South America trading websites for free accommodation and surf boards in various places I wanted to go.

Joomla is more popular than SilverStripe by a long way but is it better? The answer is that it depends on what you need your website to do and your particular skill when it comes to writing code. SilverStripe is generally better in my opinion but only if you either know how to code in PHP or you have a developer on staff who can write PHP for you. If not then I think Joomla is better for you as it allows you to install plugins (new functionality) and themes without having to code.

SilverStripe CMS requires you to log in. If you have lost these details then there is an alternative ‘admin’ password that you can set in the code to allow you to log in. Let’s look at how to set it.

Security is of course important for your website. SilverStripe has some powerful and easy security solutions including specific functions to clean data for your developers and the ability to create different users with different abilities to edit the CMS and more. In this post, I’ll discuss some of the Security features of SilverStripe CMS.

There aren’t really any in depth SilverStripe 4 demo websites so I thought I’d make one. SilverStripe is a great choice of Framework for developers and CMS users. In this post I’ll take you through how useful it can be for both parties using a live demo site of a recent project that I created for a client.

Silverstripe 4 is the first version to use PHP7. I was doing some extra study on how PHP7, through its architecture, was made to be faster and I discovered that the speed of the PHP script execution was not the only benefit to Silverstripe using PHP7 as I had originally thought. It turns out there are a few more nuggets in there that can be useful such as new operators and type declarations. In this article, I look at two things that are useful from the new features.

Silverstripe CMS is a PHP based Framework and CMS. It has a very flexible PHP Framework for developers and a very well regarded CMS for its CMS editors. On the downside, it is very much a developers framework (you cant install a theme for example or extensions very easily if you aren't a developer) so it's not always suitable for the DIY'ers out there. Let's look at a few more examples of pros and cons.

In a nutshell, I am a full stack web designer and developer with a particular interest in generating content and design that helps to create leads.

I feel that Silverstripe is better than Wordpress but there really isn't a definitive answer. Silverstripe can be better suited to professional developers and web development houses but also to those who have a significant budget or some custom functionality requirements. Wordpress is more suited to those with small budgets and those non developers wanting to do a lot of the work themselves.

In this post I will talk about under what circumstances Silverstripe is better than Wordpress and those that it isn't. 

I wanted to learn to write better blog posts for my business. I did research and learned that creating a structure and process around your writing in order to make your writing easy, fast and compelling is the way to,

• - beat writer's block,
• - generate many blog post ideas,
• - write quickly (in some cases a blog can be written in an hour or so)
• - focus on relevant, usable content based on search intent
• - understand how to compete in the space of a highly competitive keyword and 
• - give more direction to your entire blog

In this article, I look at how to create blog content for lead generation using an example of a surf school in the tourism industry. We look at, setting a goal,  identifying your target audience, focussing on your niche, measuring the results, keeping a dialogue with the clients and sharing that content further.