How to Make Your Elgg 1.8 Site Mobile Friendly

Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 May 2012 12:35 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Sunday, 3 June 2012 12:00

More and more people are connecting to the internet through their mobile devices and our Elgg users are looking for a solution to have their Elgg networks available on mobile devices. For that reason, in this article, I am going to give you a step by step guide on how to make your Elgg site mobile friendly:

1. We are going to use a plugin called Mobilize. Mobilize gives your mobile users a clean and lightweight layout to your network. Download the plugin here: Mobilize

2. After downloading the plugin, upload the plugin to the mod folder. If you don’t know how to do that, please read this article.

3. Login on your Elgg network as an Administration and go to the Administration Dashboard:

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 9 October 2012 07:57 Written by Arian Jahansouz Thursday, 31 May 2012 12:00

How to Manually Configure Your Email Account on Your iPhone

Last Updated on Sunday, 20 May 2012 12:36 Written by Arian Jahansouz Sunday, 6 May 2012 02:49

Many people who have an iPhone wish to access their emails at any time while on the go. However, manually configuring an email account is often tricky. This article will give you a step by step guide on how to manually configure your email account on your iPhone (running iOS 4 or higher).

The hardest part of configuring your email account manually is knowing what information you need to enter. Once you have the information, configuring the rest of your account is very easy! Therefore, before we begin, let’s figure out what information we need!

Email address: the email address for the account that you are trying to set up
Password: the password for the email address that you are setting up
Server name: mail.YourDomain.com (ex: mail.Arvixe.com) If mail.YourDomain.com doesn’t work, you will find this information in your webmail login under Settings then Email Accounts.

Now that we have the information ready, let’s set up the email account on your iPhone!

1) From your home screen, tap the Settings icon

How to Detect If a Website Is Being Browsed Through a Mobile Device with PHP

Last Updated on Sunday, 20 May 2012 12:37 Written by Richi González Friday, 9 March 2012 12:00

Hello,

As technology is changing, and a great percentage of the total Internet users browse the web through their mobile devices, it’s become essential for a web developer, to add support for these devices. This can be achieved in various ways, but today, I’ll show you how to do it with PHP.

Difficulty level: Easy

1. Open up the header.php file of your website or the index.php file; if you just want to test it, simply create a new PHP file.

2. At the top, add the following:

The Prospect of HTML5

Last Updated on Sunday, 20 May 2012 12:38 Written by Kemin Bao Sunday, 10 July 2011 12:00

HTML5 has become the most popular item in the web field due to the fact that all web applications are based on HTML (Hypertext Mark Language). Despite the diversity of Background-Technology, the Foreground still focuses on Browser and HTML, because only HTML can be rendered into readable content for users. What revolutions could the newborn HTML5, which is promoted enthusiastically by Browser companies, bring about?

Compared to the prevalent technology Ajax, which emerged a few years ago, some technicians have begun using HTML5, but are not completely familiar with it. Recently, Apple began to move towards HTML5. Also, a well-known web designer, Eric Meyer, announced some news about the extension of HTML5, and showed some application areas of HTML5 in the future.