FAQ’s

Synergy Press by KeyWestCafe.net

1. What is WordPress?

   WordPress is a free open source blog and content management system that makes creating and maintaining websites easy through an online interface. WordPress uses themes for the website look and feel and plugins to extend its basic functionality.

2. What is Listing Management?

   Listing Management, such as Orodha, is commonly used for Real Estate listings, classifieds, boats, and just about anything one could possibly list. Like WordPress it provides search engine optimization, customizable templates, virtual tour support, plus many other features and addons to extend its funtionality.

3. What is Synergy Press?

   Synergy Press is an independent initiative by Key West Cafe to build a synergy between WordPress and Listing Management.

4. Is Synergy Press a WordPress plugin

   Synergy Press is neither a WordPress plugin or Listing Manager addon. It is based on the concept (not the code) of an old WordPress plugin, Static Jack, that made it easy to integrate files into WordPress. There are NO plans to release it as a WordPress plugin or listing manager addon.

5. How does Synergy Press work?

   To answer we first need to know what themes and templates are and how they differ.WordPress and Listing Managers such as Orodha are separate applications built on different platforms. WordPress uses a collection of PHP files called a theme that when loaded with WordPress delivers HTML output and presentation of the website. Whereas an Orodha template is a tool used to separate content from presentation in web design. The main difference is that themes interact with WordPress (and WordPress with themes) in the exact manner that WordPress interacts with itself.

   Synergy Press can best be described as a gateway resulting in a synergism between WordPress and the listing manager where neither is dependent on the other and either can be updated or changed without loss or degradation of the synergism. In essence, Orodha pages are loaded as WordPress pages that interact in the same manner as WordPress interacts with itself.

6. Where can I get Synergy Press?

   Synergy Press is available with a KeyWestCafe installation packages—to be announced soon.All packages include installation of Orodha or Open says Lachlan Hunt, developer for Opera and contributor the HTML5 specification

7. HTML5 is Happening now!

   Despite the fact that HTML5 has become a loose marketing term like Web 2.0 or Ajax, all the main browser vendors are supporting the standard. They may have their own reasons and agendas, but HTML5 is here today and browser support will continue to improve and evolve at a rapid pace.

   Synergy Press is taking the lead in upgrading XHTML themes to HTML5 themes. Instead of dwelling on cross browser incompatibilities we are focusing on cross browser capabilities of elements that are supported or that can be made to degrade gracefully.

8. What HTML5 do Synergy Press themes contain?

   Following the WordPress “twenty ten” theme lead we presently use:

   • HTML5 doctype
   • Simplified character set
   • Simplified <script> and <style> elements

   In our next update we will upgrade with:

   • HTML5 class names
   • the new form input types
   • HTML5 semantic elements such as <header>, <article> and <footer>
   • <video> and <audio> elements that we can make degrade gracefully