Padding vs. Margin

Understanding padding and margins is an important concept for most CSS beginners. Mixing them up leads to incorrect usage which can trigger browser bugs and inconsistencies.

What Is Padding and Margin?

Padding is the inner space of an element which can be styled with a background while margin is the outer transparent space of an element. And in between is the elements border.

CSS Properties

• padding-top: 0px;
• padding-right: 0px;
• padding-bottom: 0px;
• padding-left: 0px;

• margin-top: 0px;
• ma...

Not to worry. If you'd like to share a box with the same html content on 25 pages or more, updating that box would be dreadfully painful. This is why updating a single JavaScript file is a quicker alternative.

Our example will include a simple box having a title (Heading 2) with a paragraph (Paragraph).

First, we'll build our box in html using the HTML widget:

<h2>Heading</h2>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. In diam tortor, vehicula nec faucibus a,...

After you have migrated your existing content and/or re-built/designed a new page the question is "What do I do with my old content?"  For most people this means deleting the content.  Before you delete here are some of the things you should be thinking about.

1. Review the folder contents

Make sure you have reviewed the Folder Contents section on every folder and sub-folder - so you are not accidently deleting content.

2. Verify your migrated content

Test the new web pages and if you centralized...

IGLOO Software's latest release was successfully applied to all of our customers this morning!  When you log into your community next you may notice a few new features and enhancements.  We hope these upgrades continue to improve the way that you use your communities.

There's not enough space here to outline all of the great changes with this release, so check out the Release Notes for all the detailed goodness!

A couple of points to draw your attention to:

Instant Messaging & VoIP Integration....

Since the beginning of the New Year, the team here at IGLOO has been working hard on a new wave of features requested by you - our customers. Here's a sneak peak at some of the enhancements coming soon:

• Instant Messaging & VoIP. Find, reach and communicate with others in your community quickly and cost effectively. With our new real-time communication module, you can integrate with Skype™, Windows Live™ Messenger, Google Talk™ and Yahoo!® Messenger to make it easier to connect with those...

REVISED SCHEDULE

In order to minimize impact of our maintenance window to our customers we have split it into two separate time slots on the same day, Saturday Februrary 6, 2010.

*NEW* 12:00 AM to 2:00AM EST - we will be offline during this time period
8:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST - we will be offline for two hours during this period

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New features are coming your way! 

At IGLOO we are...

In applicable widgets (blogs, members, folder contents and photos in album) you have sort options including Descending and Ascending.

Descending is defined as newest to oldest
Ascending is defined as oldest to newest

For more information about widgets, check out our wiki documentation.

As with all things web, this has been documented as a web standard.  Visit Wikipedia for more information.

Hope you are enjoying the new widget features and keep the feedback coming!

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To keep our systems running at optimum performance and maintain our uptime standards IGLOO routinely performs maintenance. Our maintenance is typically unnoticed by our customers but certain elements may result in a momentary interruption to your service. We make every attempt to minimize the impact to our customers by selecting a time that statistically is low in usage.

For people who are new to web publishing, you need to consider how you add content to a web page.  The biggest mistake people make is to copy directly from a word processing program, like MS Word or email, and paste directly into the web editor.  Initially, the results in the WYSIWYG editor may look good, but what you don't see is that in the HTML you've also copied over the word processing code that can BREAK your web page.

When adding content to the editor there are three ways you can do this:

1. T...