A collection of 3rd party links that our partners find useful when developing websites.
These sites are full of useful content, but any advice and examples published by 3rd party Sites is their own. We do not recommend any particular Front End library and encourage your agency to find the front-end tools and techniques that work for you.
Siteglide is built upon platformOS, so their documentation is a fantastic resource for adding custom functionality to your Siteglide Website: https://documentation.platformos.com/
We also recommend the platformOS docs as the ultimate authority on using Liquid in your Siteglide Site. They include documentation on the original Liquid features and the additional features platformOS have added themselves: https://documentation.platformos.com/api-reference/liquid/introduction
You'll come across JSON when you are working on Migrations and commonly when working with Liquid. It's a common language for storing data-structures, so if you output {{this}} in a Layout- we'll show you the JSON which stores the fields you need.
Using a third party JSON tool is useful to actually take the raw data and make it easy to read. Everyone has a different favourite tool, but you can see a third party comparison here to help you get started and find one: https://geekflare.com/json-online-tools/
w3schools give a fantastic introduction to all web development topics, including reference guides and examples on HTML, JS, CSS, accessibility and more. https://www.w3schools.com/
MDN is another fantastic reference guide. It's useful if you need a little bit of extra depth and context. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
Bootstrap is a useful library of Front-End components and features that we've made fully compatible with the Siteglide Design System because it is so widely used and familiar. If you have Design System enabled on your Page, there is no need to install https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.5/getting-started/introduction/
Stack Overflow is fantastic for FAQs on every aspect of development. https://stackoverflow.com/
Code Pen is a great source of inspiration for all things CSS and JavaScript. It is full of fancinating community generated examples of everything from User-interfaces to animations:https://codepen.io/
Wes Bos has earned a reputation for teaching courses in JavaScript that are accessible to beginners and experts alike: https://wesbos.com/courses
We use the Glide.js plugin to power out Slider Module Layouts. Check out the docs to customise your Layouts and build new ones: https://glidejs.com/
Google Maps are used by the Events Module. Read the docs and customise here: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation
FullCalendar.io is the plugin which powers the Calendar Layout of the Events Module. Read the docs and customise here: https://fullcalendar.io/
CSS tricks is a great resource for staying up to date on the latest in CSS and specialises in helping you tackle those issues that leave you scratching your head: https://css-tricks.com/
June 25, 2024
We strive to support all recent versions of major browsers front-end JavaScript features that we deliver to your site, such as eCommerce or Forms.
For the sake of security and providing the best experience to the majority of customers, we do not support browsers that are no longer receiving security updates and represent a small minority of traffic.
We support Edge v79 onwards per Microsoft's lifecycle policy. We do not support Legacy Edge or Internet Explorer versions as they are no longer supported by Microsoft.
We support Chrome, Safari and Firefox on desktop platforms.
We support the Android native browser on Android 4.4 and later.
iOS and iPadOS version 10 and later. This also includes browser variants on iOS such as Chrome, Firefox, Brave etc.
We respond to bug reports but do not proactively test other browsers.
If you have any system related issues in the browsers above then please don't hesitate to contact us for support.
We recommend always using the latest browser version available to your operating system for the best support and security while using the internet. You can use the links below for your browser’s documentation to learn more about checking and updating your version:
For Safari, and Microsoft Edge browsers, this may depend on your device's operating system so check your OS is up to date as well.
There are a few main ways to work with your Siteglide Site:
Using the Siteglide Admin - Create an Account and use the User Interface to explore and build your Site. If you have any questions, use our live chat button to get help.
Using the Siteglide CLI - Efficiently work directly with your Site's code on your own machine.
Wait I'm not a developer? Don't worry, Siteglide has low-code tools like Studio, Toolbox and SiteBuilder to help Designers and Agents get stuck in as well!
In the course of this Documentation, you will probably come across the following languages that we use in many of our features and examples:
HTML - The standard Markup Language of the web. Learn more at MDN
JavaScript - The standard client-side scripting language of the web. Learn more at MDN
YAML - Used by Siteglide to store settings like page metadata, normally at the top of Liquid files.
Liquid - Used by Siteglide for dynamic server-side rendering of HTML and other languages.
GraphQL - Used by Siteglide to query the database and modify data. Often for beginners this will be tucked away inside our features, but learning it allows you to unlock more powerful possibilities.
Siteglide works very closely with our partners at platformOS to provide you with all the benefits of a modern cloud-based infrastructure like AWS, while at the same time making your life easier so you can focus on delivering the best for your clients.
platformOS are behind a lot of the code used on Siteglide sites, developing everything from new Liquid filters on top of Liquid's open-source starting point and a fully functional GraphQL schema you can plug into for making database queries and mutating to modify data. We also work with a range of other open-source and 3rd party technologies to bring you our full suite of features.
In our documentation we will often direct you to the pOS documentation and those of other 3rd parties to help you dig deeper into what it is possible to build. platformOS have won awards for their innovative documentation and we will try not to re-invent the wheel when we cover the same topics as them, but instead hope to present topics like GraphQL with a more beginner-friendly slant.
Most platformOS features can be built on Siteglide - if you find one you like and are not sure if it's supported yet, we encourage you to let us know about it.
Our Agency Success team here at Siteglide are dedicated to providing exceptional support and assistance to Digital Agencies and Siteglide Experts which ensures they are able to deliver the best solutions for their customers.
Please note: Website owners need to contact their Digital Agency for assistance, if you do not have one let us know and we'll recommend a reliable local agency or you can use our services team, .
Here we'll outline the ways in which we can help you and a few things that fall outside of our scope that we cannot assist with but we'll point you in the right direction whether it's via our Community or external resources.
Live Chat - Click the blue bubble in the bottom right hand corner of our services to speak with the team. Please leave as much information as possible by answering any questions that appear.
Documentation - Access our growing library of Docs, FAQs, examples, videos and more, right here
Discord Community - Have a question that needs a creative solution or a project scope you'd would like some suggestions on from other experienced partners?
Please note our working hours are 8am - 6pm GMT (London). We aim to answer queries outside these hours where possible.
We assist agencies and developers with the following types of issues/queries:
Platform Issues/Bugs: If you experience an issue with the core platform please report it to us and we'll help resolve it asap.
High Level Platform Capabilities: We're always here to help answer questions about the platform and confirm whether it has specific features/capabilities.
Account and Sales Questions: If you have a billing, account or sales related question we're always here to assist.
Troubleshooting: If you're struggling with a feature in Siteglide we'll point you in the right direction.
Technical Queries: Initial guidance but then you would need to use Sitegurus for assistance implementing Siteglide features.
We have a fantastic community of Siteglide Experts that can assist in various ways where we simply cannot (we want to stay focused on supporting you with the platform itself):
3rd Party Code and Custom Development: We only support the core platform code and functionality supplied out of the box as described in our documentation. We cannot support you on any 3rd party code or custom development even if we've recommended looking at 3rd party options. You are responsible for the implementation and maintenance of any custom code, design, bespoke functionality and any 3rd-party integrations. Note: Any custom code samples are provided as a guide only. We cannot provide support on use or implementation of any code that is not in our documentation. We want to focus on providing the best support of our code and platform that we possibly can. See below.
Specific project issues/assistance: We cannot help you build projects or scope out exactly how you will build each project. We will help answer high level capability questions but cannot map out how to implement Siteglide for specific project requirements. If you need help with using Siteglide for a project please review our options below.
Client/business specific questions: Siteglide is built primarily to help Digital Agencies and Expert Partners and to ensure we deliver on this mission we only provide basic account related support to end clients or Business plan users. See below for our options.
Discord Forum: The forum is the best place to start. Search to see if your question/issue already exists and post a new one if not! You can access the Forum via the Single Sign On link from the Welcome page in the Portal:
Siteglide Experts: We have various experts all over the globe ready to assist whether it's help scoping projects, solving issues, building projects, building specific functionality or even providing pre-built Modules or code. Browse our List of Experts here:
Sitegurus: Our services team, , are here to assist you with any task big or small.
External Resources: There are thousands of websites and resources to help with anything from project planning through to custom development and integrations. We've curated the ones that tend to be most useful to our partners here: