Screencasts

Introduction to Webvanta

5 minutes

A quick introduction to how the Webvanta service makes it easy to build web sites that organize their content in a database, without requiring any server-side programming.

Getting Started: Setting Up Your Site

13 minutes

This screencast is the best place to start when you have a brand-new Webvanta site. It gives you a tour of the pieces that make up the site and shows how to change all of its aspects.

Building an Information Portal (not updated for 2.0)

11 minutes

Webvanta comes with a powerful set of capabilities for building content-rich resource sites (or parts of sites) that combine original articles and links to other resources around the web.

Creating and Editing Pages (not updated for 2.0)

11 minutes

You can easily create as many pages as you need with Webvanta. The page template can define multiple regions (such as columns), and each part of the page is editable separately.

Editing Site Content (not updated for 2.0)

8 minutes

For editing your site content, Webvanta provides a customizable rich text (wysiwyg) editor and a syntax highlighting code editor. You can switch freely between the two, and you can customize the rich text editor so it previews the text according to your CSS and provides a selection of styles for the content editor to choose from.

Styling Your Site (not updated for 2.0)

13 minutes

Once you've created a few pages, you no doubt want to style them to look just how you want. The templates, CSS files, and JavaScript files we provide will set you up with a basic site that you can customize. If you haven't yet coded your design, this is a good starting place. If you have already coded your site, or want to start from a previous site, you can ignore our templates, CSS files, and JS files and install your own. In this screencast, we explain how to either use our styles or provide your own, how to customize colors simply using Config Settings, and how to use the Blueprint CSS framework.