mojoPortal Tips: Why Fonts and Colors Aren’t Included on the Editor Menu

Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 March 2013 08:30 Written by Carole Bennett Thursday, 21 March 2013 12:00

Content management systems like mojoPortal are wonderful, especially since your customers are able to edit and update their own content. However, you’ll always have one client who wants to be able to control the colors and fonts used in their content, above and beyond what you and/or your designer, leveraging years of knowledge and experience, have allowed for in your style sheets for the site.

They’re usually very creative people, who love to use all the fonts in Word, and leverage bright colors for emphasis. Some are actually quite good at it, and you may choose (at your discretion) to give them the option to have access to greater customization options for their content.

How to Add Different Fonts on a Web Site

Last Updated on Monday, 21 January 2013 02:51 Written by David Bauernschmidt Tuesday, 29 January 2013 12:00

In today’s web environment you have a great number of options when it comes to technologies to use, images to show, animation to run, navigation to launch, as well as many different frameworks to implement but one area that has always been fairly limited is in different fonts.  For the most part you have just a few (relatively speaking) to pick from.  You can look at sites like ampsite, MIT, webDesigndev and many others and you will find that you have about 16 fonts or so.  This has always bothered me.  You want to provide the user with a unique experience which should include fonts that are tailored to your site design.  You can create a wide range of graphics text but these are neither scalable nor search engine optimized.

How to Add a Google Direction Map to a Web Site

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 January 2013 08:17 Written by David Bauernschmidt Saturday, 26 January 2013 12:00

Just about everyone in today’s internet has either a Google, Bing or MapQuest map on their web page, and although this is a fine idea there have been several times when I want to know how to get there from where I live, work, or eat.  You are left with a couple of choices, you could try and copy and paste to Google map and then add a destination or you could zoom out and try and figure it out yourself. Why not add the ability for a user to enter in their address and then let them see driving directions from your site. Furthermore; if you wanted to capture the address that they are using you might find a pattern which might help target your advertising dollar. This article will walk you through the steps to add this to your site. Trust me it is not very difficult.

How to Determine If a User is Accessing a Web Site Through a Mobile Device

Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 January 2013 12:51 Written by David Bauernschmidt Wednesday, 23 January 2013 12:00

With the explosion of smartphones, tablets and other handheld devices it is becoming more important than ever to determine what type of devices are being used to get to your data.  Furthermore; hiring a development team to build the same application for Apple, Android, and Microsoft is almost only dedicated to companies that are very large or those companies that are willing to lose money until they hit it big.  For the vast majority a solution is to develop a web application that fairly browser independent.  This article is not designed to show you how to build a mobile application (this might come in a later blog) but rather provide you with the first step in this journey.  This sample is to help in identifying whether a user is on your site by a mobile device or through a normal browser.  I have pulled together different parts of the web to provide step by step instructions to do the following:

What is the DOCTYPE Used for Starting HTML5 Code?

Last Updated on Thursday, 10 January 2013 12:01 Written by Richi González Thursday, 10 January 2013 12:00

Hello,

As we all may know, HTML5 era is already here and day by day browsers are becoming more compatible, therefore, we, developers, need to start making our websites HTML5 friendly. Today I’ll tell you the very basic to make our site be read as HTML5.

The Doctype that you see on every page is mainly the big-not-rememberable HTML4 doctype: