Knowledgebase & Documentation
Our documentation is the best way to get immediate answers and guidance. We also provide numerous references for the more advanced features and functionality such as the CMS and the API.
The PAS Content Management System
Our exclusive content management system (CMS) allows you to customize almost every aspect of your website. You can add content, change existing content, or create a unique theme that affects every element of your site.
Suggested prerequisites
A bit of knowledge about basic HTML and CSS is key to understanding the content management system. In addition, for advanced techniques you will need to understand the Liquid templating engine. There are many tutorials around the web. Here are a few to get get you started.
For advanced users: Liquid for Designers
An Introduction to the Content Management System
The CMS contains nearly every piece of information that is displayed anywhere on each of your websites. Essentially, the content of your site(s) is composed of several distinct types:
- Static text, tables, and figures that appear on your site,
- Dynamic information generated by hidden programming code,
- Dynamic information generated by visible Liquid tags, and
- Style information which controls how your information is presented.
The presentation of this content is controlled by various methods:
- Regular (plain) text: Nested within appropriate HTML tags to control size, location, and appearance.
- Hypertext Markup Language (HTML): Controls the formatting of information using <tags>.
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS): Finer control over element appearance and central access to site-wide styles and layout.
- Liquid templating engine: Basic programmatic functions that can change the way some data is processed and displayed.
- Javascript programming language (JS): Programming language that controls how data is displayed.