One of the best things about Tridion is it’s flexibility. You’re free to create your website in whatever way you see fit – which is how a good Content Management System should be. The downside of all this flexibility is that the prospect of a completely blank Tridion Page Template can be a little daunting. […]
Stacking text-shadow
Alas, support for the text-shadow CSS property is not included in the forthcoming release of Internet Explorer. This is a real shame because it lets us create some really interesting effects. The text-shadow property The text-shadow CSS property looks like a cross between margin or padding and a color property: text-shadow: #000 2px 2px 5px; […]
Targeting iPhone 4 with CSS
Because the iPhone 4 has such a high resolution screen, the usual technique of detecting the device width in pixels (320 for previous versions of the iPhone) no longer works. Thomas Maier has come up with a way to target the iPhone 4 specifically. <link rel=”stylesheet” media=”only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2)” type=”text/css” href=”../iphone4.css” /> Very […]
Leave SiteEdit off your live site
SiteEdit is SDL Tridion’s inline editing functionality. Once enabled, your editors can browse the staging site and edit pages there and then, without having to find the item they want through the Content Manager interface. SiteEdit works by surrounding the editable elements on a page with HTML span tags. <span id=”_SE_CP” _SE_C=”tcm:113-40744″ _SE_CP=”tcm:113-40744″ _SE_CT=”tcm:113-162-32″ _SE_CPt=”generalfull”> […]
Image caching in Tridion
One of the most effective ways to improve your website’s performance is to implement image caching. Without caching, every visitor downloads the same image every time they request a page. This means unnecessary load on your server and unnecessarily slow page load times for your audience. It also means search engines will take longer to […]