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The site will give you a one-line strip of code (an iframe) that you can place into a template. I used the content_top page element for insertion.
Depending on the dimensions of your main content rail, you’ll need to adjust the size of the iframe (pretty easy to do).
During our redesign, we [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2008
A super easy way to do chat
Unhooking Your Highlight Sets
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I learned about this a few months ago: You can keep a highlight floating in a highlight set for later use by changing its asset group assignment to “Select One…”.
The producers here in Charlotte do a lot of this.
There is a problem with that method tho’. It lumps all the unassigned highlights at the top [...]
How to Implement the PubSys Edit Extension
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With a few small changes to your components in TempSys, you can set this extension to work with your site.
Add the following tag below the <body> tag in your generic.comp:
<div id=”pubSys” editUser=”*Site Manager ID” editSection=”<& /mi/pubsys/section/id &>”></div>
*Site Manager ID is the ID for your installation. You can grab this by looking at almost any link [...]
Charlotte & Miami Beta Testing Pubsys Edit Extension
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There are two versions of the extension now:
One for Miami that is designed to meet their needs based on no template modification
Another for Charlotte that is built to be more extensible and requires template modification
I decided to handcraft one for Miami to get more people using it — and therefore more feedback. I hope by [...]
more...Full RSS Feeds As A Publisher
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RSS feeds are the lifeline of info junkies, and they are the friend of developers needing to pull simple published info from here to there. Case in point on the latter: The Charlotte Observer is part of the Newspaper Consortium, which includes sending articles to Yahoo! News for local news presentation (until we move to [...]
more...Auto-Starting Video
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Internet product managers — we should adopt rules for internet video as it pertains to auto-starting playback. For our users.
My position:
If the user initiates video — as in clicking on a link clearly marked as video via icon or text — auto play the video. It saves the user a step. Example: CharlotteObserver.com, of [...]
Firefox Extension for Triggering ‘Edit-Mode’
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After completing yesterday’s post about adding a simple query string after our URLs to trigger an ‘edit-mode’ for our sites, I got to thinking: Why not write a simple Firefox extension to do that instead?
Version 1.0 of that extension has been written and it is very elemental but works great. It places an icon in [...]
Big News: Making Life Easier for Producers
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A feature you see frequently in modern CMS systems is the ability to get to the job of editing content straight from the presentation layer. If you’re viewing a story on the site — and you’re logged in — a little edit icon allows you to go straight to that task. This greatly improves work flow and increases efficiency.
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