Contao is an open-source web content management system with a constantly growing fan base. Recently toxA has published an extension for Contao to use LESS CSS, an extension to CSS language. In addition that extension enables control of variables defined in LESS to have customizable themes. Continue reading »
Jan 17
Fixing WebDAV support in MacOS X and on iPad
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Though several sites claim Mac OS X properly supporting WebDAV thus making any connection to a WebDAV server a snap you might encounter some trouble on “snapping”. Windows clients properly connect to your Apache 2.2 based installation of mod_dav. Using Finder connection fails due to invalid server address. Using Terminal for invoking command mount_webdav everything’s working, though. While Pages on iPad properly connects to your server, but GoodReader fails to do so, you are stuck in same situation as me. Here is the solution … Continue reading »
Dec 31
Stop Wasting Your Contao-Based Site’s Analytics
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Google Analytics is the contemporary way of tracking your site’s visitors and analyzing where they come from, what they are interested in and what hard- and software they are using. However, while updating your site’s content and design you’ll probably go and check it in different browsers on several devices. It takes extra efforts to keep those visits out of your analytics results unless using static connection to internet enabling address-based filtering. For Contao CMS there is a new extension to the rescue simplifying use of customer variables in Analytics for segmented tracking. Continue reading »
Nov 11
Installing Contao
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Contao is a powerful content management system taking little efforts to install on a server. This post is available to describe a way I’m frequently used to set it up on customer sites. It’s basically trying to prevent world-writability to any script, requiring special access to server. If you are trying to install Contao in a webspace provided by a major web hoster it might be as simple as uploading files to server and running install. But if you are running dedicated root server and know your webserver’s user and group it might be an option to try this guide for installing Contao in a more restrictive setup. Continue reading »
Oct 07
Dojo in Action on a new Advertising Website
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I’d like to announce final release of an advertising website build on Dojo Toolkit to achieve a living presentation of information including visible features like multi-layer web design and animations as well as features behind the scene including automatic column break insertion and AJAJ for asynchronous retrieval of content defined in YAML. By implementing visuals in JavaScript instead of relying on plugins like Flash this site is available to mobile users, too. Search engines get a reduced HTML version of contained information to enhance possibility to index the site’s content.
As a constantly developing project there are plans to integrate further kinds of multimedia as well as to try additional ways of navigation to make those new kinds of multimedia accessible in a clear and simple way.
You’re invited to take a look at it.
