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 Edit the Global Announcement (with plugin) in Clip-Bucket v2

Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 October 2012 05:40 Written by Richi González Thursday, 1 November 2012 12:00

Hello,

Today I’ll show you how to add a Global Announcement to your Clip-Bucket v2 powered website. This announcement can be plain text or can have a cool css design, sort of like YTs. You must have the plugin that CB sells. In the future I’ll write an article on how to make one without purchasing it; keep checking.

Difficulty level: Can’t be easier

How to Use Global Content Blocks for Javascript Embedding

Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 May 2012 02:26 Written by Ken Griffith Wednesday, 23 May 2012 12:04

Now that Google has modified the Page Rank Algorithm to include the speed at which a site loads, there is an *additional* financial incentive to optimize websites for speed. (Of course the original incentive to do this was to improve user experience, but Google has now given us a measurable metric for OCD web developers to obsess over.)

Many articles and techniques have been published about this, and I won’t try to re-invent the wheel here. This article concerns how to embed scripts in your HTML page using CMS Made Simple.

The conventional wisdom is that it is best to add javascript calls at the end of your HTML document in order to prevent javascript blocking from delaying the loading of CSS images and other external resources on your page.

The technique I am about to explain will reduce page load time regardless of whether you put your scripts in the HEAD or after the FOOTER. But it is especially useful for scripts that have to go in the HEAD and execute immediately such as modernizr.js, head.js, and web font loading scripts such as fonts.com or Typekit.