raweGauge is a simple jQuery plugin that transforms boring radio buttons into an attractive gauge with a sliding effect. Continue reading “raweGauge 1.5”
raweGauge jQuery plugin
Introducing raweGauge, a basic jQuery plugin that transforms a set of radio buttons into an animated number gauge. Perfect for making surveys and forms easier to use and more attractive.
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Improving MacBook battery performance
A quick post on improving battery performance for MacBooks, more for self-reference really, but hopefully others might find it useful.
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Filtering content in Kentico
Standard repeaters are a great all-in-one web part for displaying content, but sometimes you need finer control over the output. This post will show you how to create a content filter for news articles, so that content can be filtered by the categories: Press Releases, Product News and Partner News. Continue reading “Filtering content in Kentico”
Lego Iron Man Minifigures
These Iron Man Lego minifigure concepts were designed in collaboration with @iritweets for his Iron Man 3 Hall of Armour Lego concept over at Lego Cuusoo. The four figures are concepts of Mark 2 to 5 Iron Man suits, which are not currently available from Lego. Continue reading “Lego Iron Man Minifigures”
Page reloading on form submission in IE10
I recently installed IE10 for Windows 7 and naturally the first thing I did was check how my sites looked with it. Pages were loading in IE10 standards mode and it was great to see new CSS3 features supported. All seemed to work fine, until I tested the search form on one of the sites…
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Creating a custom web part
If you’re pretty new to Kentico, you might be wondering how to create your own custom web part. This post will take you through the creation of a simple web part that provides links to social accounts, and will hopefully act as a foundation for you to go on to produce more complex web parts.
Kentico’s built in jQuery may break your scripts
I recently discovered that Kentico has an inbuilt jQuery library (who knew!) and there is a knowledge base article advising how to add Kentico’s jQuery. The article adds a foot note: “Please do not register any other jQuery library on your pages”. This applies to Kentico V6 and V7.
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Repeating edi-region content in Kentico
Kentico has various transformation methods that can be used to output database content to the page, one quite handy method being the EditableItems[] method.
If you have an editable text region web part on say, the Home page, and want to display the content from within it on another page, simply add a Repeater web part and create a new transformation for it using just the following code:
Getting vertically-aligned
Vertical-align is a pretty useful property at times, but could easily be assumed to align any element centrally, but there’s a catch it will only work on inline elements.
A simple example of vertical-align would be to align an image to text. This is great for aligning an icon with a title or a button. There are a few values that can be used: baseline, sub, super, text-top, text-bottom, middle, top and bottom.