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by Kara Noreika
What is website accessibility?
It is the programming or setup of a website so that it can be accessed by users with different types of disabilities, such as blindness or being hearing impaired.
What are the ways that a website might not be accessible to users...
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by Kara Noreika
I was recently working on a WordPress site for a client, specifically, on a contact form for the website. The user was to enter their name, email and birthdate. The client requested that the birthday is separated into 3 different drop down lists: Day, Month and Year.
Like many...
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Spam emails from a form on a website can be so annoying and are a pretty common occurrence for clients using NewsCycle Digital. The reason being, that there really isn't a straightforward easy way to add Google's CAPTCHA to a form. NewsCycle Digital has a...
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Recently I had a challenge: display YouTube videos, images and links in the info box of a Google Map marker. Previously this wouldn't have been a big deal, but due to changes Google Maps has made, it isn't as simple as it seems. As of...
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I am excited to share that StAlbertGazette.com, a site I have been working on for the past year, has won three awards from the Local Media Association. I was part of a team of three people who worked very hard to accomplish the site look...
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Set up in the EI
The first thing to do is to set up a self-serve section under Taxonomy (Admin -> Taxonomy). You can list all of the different pages here, each page needs its own unique taxonomy ID. In this example, I created a root...
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Saxotech contains many different ways to format text output in an object file. What does this mean exactly? Well, for example, the other day I noticed a page layout was broken on a client's newslist page. The editor had added an iframe tag that was...
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SERVER SIDE
I attended the Saxotech Conference in 2012 and went to a workshop called Effective Template Design. My goal for attending this conference was to find a way to speed up my client's sites. Their code had been written by another developer and my goal...
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Twitter API v1 vs. v1.1
Adding a twitter widget to a site used to be a pretty straightforward task. It involved adding a Twitter provided script, with some javascript that would allow you to customize the look and feel of the widget. It looked something like...
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NEWSCYCLE Digital/Saxotech has informed you that you are scheduled for their newest upgrade. From our experience the process usually allows for testing the upgrade in the dev and stage environment before it is pushed live. If you were like me, you would check out your...