Information for the visual developer
23's visual platform, which is currently running Visualblog and Visualcollaboration, is built to empower the developer. You can create themes using only established web standards, you can build new features using our APIs, or your can include photos and other data elsewhere on the web.


Creating your own style

Visualblog and Visualcollaboration can be easily re-styled through Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScript. The styling guide introduces the grid of the application and provides examples for styling sites through CSS. If you want to move elements around the page and even add new ones, you'll need to look at the scripting guide. This guide documents specific methods build to manage the document structure.

The themes page teaches you how to download and distribute themes from 23's sites, and the page includes a few examples of ready-to-use themes.

Building new features

Visualblog and Visualcollaboration can be extended with new features through our APIs. The products support the 23 API (which is compatible with the Flickr API) to allow advanced intagration with third-party applications. If you have more modest needs, have a look at our JavaScript API which allows you to retrieve standardized data from your site in JSON format.