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This article outlines a process which you can attach images and insert them into blog, wiki, forum and calendar posts without needing to upload the image to a gallery folder, reducing your galleries clutter.
When creating posts in your community whether it is a blog, wiki or forum post you may have noticed that when you insert a photo it's necessary to upload the image to a gallery album. This however can lead to images which don't have much of a purpose outside your post and lead to clutter in your gallery. To avoid this you can follow the steps below.
While writing your post you will see an "add attachment" button below your content area, here you are able to upload an attachment to include in…
This article describes how to upload and use a custom favicon in your community
Favicon (short for favorites icon), also known as a website icon, shortcut icon, URL icon, or bookmark icon is a 16×16, 32×32 or 64×64 pixel square icon. You may find it necessary to change your favicon from our IGLOO logo to something custom for your community, this article will show you how to do this yourself. It is required to have your image saved as an ico file type before following these steps.
Step One:
Upload your custom ico file, you may upload this file to anywhere in your documents…
Simple introduction to the CSS box model
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…
This article requires familiarity with JavaScript and HTML.
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,…
Some of our technical users have begun migrating their content to Pages so they can leverage the new web publish tools such as versions, save as draft and widgets. Part of migration may include deleting old content.
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…
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!
Although the WYSIWYG editor offers you many of the same formatting options as you see in word processing, the underlying code used for publishing for the web is different then the underlying code used for word processing.
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:
- T…
These blogs are meant to help you build and enhance your community’s appearance as well as its public perception using design as your tool.
Let's dive into my favourite aspect of design, colour!
Some people are afraid of colour because they don't know what colours look good together, they have pre-conceived notions that you just don't mix certain colours (and therefore they're left with fewer colours to choose from), they think the only colours out there are the ones from their crayon box when they were a kid.
All colour stems from the three primary colours, Red, Blue and Yellow, but that doesn't mean you're stuck with viberant…
These blogs are meant to help you build and enhance your community’s appearance as well as its public perception using design as your tool.
Every company and organization should have a brand identity, in other words, they should have a logo and a colour scheme that compliments it. Here are a few logo designs, let's take a closer look into what these logos are saying about their companies.
1. Logo 1 - Bringing IT On
Analysis: the typeface looks handwritten and casual, the colours are bright and bold, there is a lot of depth to the logo which gives it a 3-D look.
Verdict: this logo is FUN, FRIENDLY, and CREATIVE.
2. …
How can you leverage a JavaScript framework to create a more exciting and dynamic community? follow this series to learn how.
Episode 2: Creating your first Modal Box
Basically, a modal box is a window that requires some type of input from the user before they can continue (for example, click here to create a modal box). This can be useful for displaying important information (for example, if a user remains inactive for too long, a warning box will appear on your page warning you that your session will end.), or for entering information (for example, when sending a user a message, a modal box will popup, allowing you to send a message without leaving the…
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