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 with disabilities? A good example is a blind customer […]
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 WordPress sites (over 1 million as of this post!), […]
Many times while building web applications, most business owners stick to what they know. Since there is always a new and improved technology coming out at a faster rate than ever before, it is hard to gauge as a business owner or web developer whether or not investing the time and money into the new […]
Do you manage your publication’s videos through YouTube? Tired of the additional work required to get them setup on your site? Tamberra has crafted a solution that talks directly to the Youtube API and eliminates additional newsroom work of adding every video to the backend GUI admin. You can setup templates to play […]
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 pbs:captcha tag in their documentation, but I was told that […]
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 now, you can use Google Maps Engine Light to accomplish […]
PHP SOSE Example I promised a blog post giving PHP examples of the SOSE (Saxotech Online object) in the comments section on this page a few weeks back. Here it is! The official documentation is a little light on PHP examples for the SOSE scripting object. We at Tamberra have been using PHP as […]
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 and functionality. StAlbertGazette.com won second place in Best Overall Local […]
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 category called SELF_SERVE_PAGES. I added the different types of […]
Intro I’ve worked on many CCE implementations with complex hierarchies built into the CCE types metadata. We want to push the user to select the proper values based on the hierarchy. This is a better UX and eliminates human error which also can shorten the time someone in the newsroom needs to properly categorize a […]
