Tips, Tricks and Best Practices

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?