Tips, Tricks and Best Practices

Normally we embed YouTube videos into a website by just placing them into a div somewhere, but a recent project I was working on called for a YouTube video to be loaded in a lightbox. Our preferred… Read more...

Sliced Design, one of our partners, recently contacted us with a great feature request. They were building a site with a contact form that needed to have some dynamic default values for some of it's fields. In the site they have links to the form that look like this: site.com/contact?name=Joe. They needed to have the "Name" text box automatically filled with the value from the "name" URL parameter.

Now on the surface this isn't that bad of a request. In their form template they could simply put in some logic to see if the {#global.request.get.name} value exists and then set the value for the Name field. Their request was to make this easier. They simply wanted to set the variable as the default value when setting up the form field.

Breadcrumb trails are a great way to help your site visitors find their place in your website. They're especially useful if a visitor lands deep in your site from a search engine listing as the breadcrumb trail can give them a sense of where they are and an idea of the other content on your website.

We've recently added a few new features to Aptuitiv Studio that updates how it works with breadcrumb trails.

We've had our Navigation APIs for a while and this morning we just added some more functionality, so I figured it's a good time to give an overview of what our Navigation APIs are and how you can use them.

We've recently started launching new websites at a staging URL under our generic domain "mysitestaging.com".  Using the magic of wildcard subdomains we can create a new website at… Read more...

One question that we often get from new clients is where to start when building a new site. A while ago we created a Getting Started Guide that can help. However, in this post I'd like to discuss things a bit more generically and talk about strategies for building sites with any Content Management System (CMS).

Aptuitiv Studio uses TinyMCE as the rich text editor and we recently upgraded it from version 3.2.6 to 3.3.4. For the most part the upgrade was smooth and from an end user perspective the way the editor works stayed fairly consistent. There was however one thing that was significantly different and that is the Paste as Plain Text functionality.

Aptuitiv Studio uses the TinyMCE editor as our rich-text editor for editing pages and other content.  We've recently gotten a few requests to support spell checking in Firefox and decided to find out why it wasn't working.

The problem

Firefox and Safari have a really nice built-in spell check system that will underline misspelled words with a red line.  If you right click with your mouse then you'll get a menu that will give suggested spellings. Misspelled words do get underlined in Aptuitiv Studio, however, when you right click in the TinyMCE editor you get a different menu and that menu doesn't include any spell check options.

Your team has spent the last few weeks and possibly months working on the new website and launch day is here.  Just as you're about to hit the launch button a sinking feeling comes over you.  When doing the new design the site was re-arranged and pages were renamed or deleted.  In the furry of finishing the site on time your team forgot about outside links to the old pages. 

What can you do?