How to Add a Professional Announcement Bar at the Top of Your Site with Plain HTML

Last Updated on Sunday, 11 November 2012 04:28 Written by Richi González Monday, 12 November 2012 12:00

Hello,

Today I’ll show you one of the things I think a website must have: an announcement bar. What for? To let your users know recent changes, recent news or basically any text you want them to be the first thing they will see. An example of what the announcement bar will look like can be seen here: tecchmun2012.com.

Difficulty level: Easy

1. Open the index HTML file or the header file, if any.

How to Compress Your CSS With {cms_stylesheet}

Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 May 2012 12:55 Written by Ken Griffith Tuesday, 5 June 2012 12:00

CMS Made Simple attaches stylesheets to a page template with the {cms_stylesheet} tag. Since CMSMS version 1.10, this tag will automatically concatenate all of the stylesheets for a given media type into one CSS file.

You may not be aware that since version 1.10, you can use SMARTY tags inside of CMS Made Simple stylesheets. With a couple of small tricks, you can use this to compress your stylesheets.

Using [[strip]] Tags

In CMS Made Simple stylesheets, we use [[double braces]] instead of {curly brackets} as the SMARTY delimiter. This saves using a ridiculous number of {literal} tags.

mojoPortal Tips: How to Use Web Fonts in mojoPortal

Last Updated on Tuesday, 31 January 2012 09:02 Written by Carole Bennett Friday, 3 February 2012 12:00

So – with the latest release of mojoPortal, we’ve gotten some new skins to work with – or maybe you’ve created a custom skin using Artisteer. Whether you’re going for a fully customized look, or just wanting to update an existing skin, one very easy method to give your website a bit more individuality, or conform with a corporate branding message, is to use web fonts.

What are web fonts? Here’s a very concise description from Wikipedia: “Web fonts allow Web designers to use fonts that are not installed on the viewer’s computer.” This refers to the fact that the fonts installed on your local computer won’t always be the same ones your viewers have installed on theirs. With the proliferation of devices such as iPads, iPhones, and Android devices, as well as PCs and Macs, it can be a real challenge to keep your font choices consistent across all platforms. The best solution has been the font-face format introduced in CSS2, and widely accepted in CSS3.

How to Disable Simple Cache in Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Sunday, 18 December 2011 03:02 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Monday, 19 December 2011 12:00

In this article, I will give you a step by step guide on how to disable simple cache in Elgg 1.8. This is a quick guide in case you are doing some CSS changes to your site and you want to see the new changes on refresh. Sign in as an admin in your Elgg site and follow these steps:

How to Change the Background Color of Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 November 2011 03:51 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Tuesday, 6 December 2011 12:00

This article will give you a step by step guide on how to change the default background color of Elgg 1.8. With an FTP manager, connect to your website public_html and follow these steps:

1) Open the file YourElggFolder\views\default\css\elements\reset.php

2) Inside the file, look for the BODY section. In that section is where we are going to change the background color of your Elgg 1.8 site: