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Kinetic is Serendipity template designed to publish content for news or magazine styled template. However, what exactly does the format "magazine" mean?

When Kinetic was originally released, the screenshots and demo primarily focussed on using Kinetic as a news template. Being a news template, one would expect a front page presentation organized by categories. This is a key concept of a news template. But Kinetic can display content in much the same manner with less emphasis on categories, and more focus on the content. This is what I will call a "magazine" format, and Kinetic can do this easily by making a few simple changes to its configuration options. [ Continue reading "Kinetic as a magazine template" » ]

Your Serendipity powered website is structured using many categories. You would like to summarize those entries on your front page according to each category, but the default Serendipity presentation merely lists those entries in date order - most recent first. What can you do?

Announcing Kinetic. Kinetic is a Serendipity template designed to present your content in much the same way as might be seen on a newspaper or magazine website. [ Continue reading "Kinetic - a magazine and ... » ]