O3 Tips and Tricks

March 11, 2010

Folder to Page Migration: Deleting old content

Some of our technical users have begun migrating their content to Pages so they can leverage the new web publish tools such as versions, save as draft and widgets. Part of migration may include deleting old content.

After you have migrated your existing content and/or re-built/designed a new page the question is "What do I do with my old content?" For most people this means deleting the content. Before you delete here are some of the things you should be thinking about.

1. Review the folder contents

Make sure you have reviewed the Folder Contents section on every folder and sub-folder - so you are not accidently deleting content.

2. Verify your migrated content

Test the new web pages and if you centralized…

March 11, 2010

Beginner CSS: Padding & Margin

By O3 Administrator

Simple introduction to the CSS box model

Padding vs. Margin

Understanding padding and margins is an important concept for most CSS beginners. Mixing them up leads to incorrect usage which can trigger browser bugs and inconsistencies.

What Is Padding and Margin?

Padding is the inner space of an element which can be styled with a background while margin is the outer transparent space of an element. And in between is the elements border.

CSS Properties

padding-top: 0px;
padding-right: 0px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-left: 0px;

margin-top: 0px;
ma…

January 13, 2010

Pasting Content Using the WYSIWYG Editor

By O3 Administrator

Pasting content from other sources can bring with it hidden code. Here's how.

The WYSIWYG editor has many of the same formatting options as you see in word processing, as well as the ability to cut and paste content. However, the underlying code used for web publishing is different then the underlying code used for word processing. If you copy content from an MS Word document, for example, it can bring with it some code you don't want on your O3 web page.

When you copy text directly from a word processing program such as Word or even an e-mail client such as Outlook, …

August 25, 2009

Alternating Table Colour Rows - The Easy Way

By O3 Administrator

Here's a tip from the IGLOO team on how to simplify the creation of tables.

Setting up a simple table with alternate row colours is pretty easy. Take the following HTML snippet for example:

<tableclass="shade-table"><tbody>
<tr class="odd">
<td>item 1</td>
<td>item 2</td>
</tr>
<trclass="even">
<td>item 1</td>
<td>item 2</td>
</tr>
<tr

class="odd">
<td>item 1</td>
<td>item 2</td>
</tr>
<trclass="even">
<td>item

1</td>
<td>item

2</td>
</t…

June 22, 2009

How to Build & Revise Documentation Using a Wiki

By Gary Hilson

Documentation from Stewart Mader on Vimeo.

May 22, 2009

How to Embed Almost Anything in your Web site

By Gary Hilson

Tech columnist Amit Agarwal has a great article that applies to O3 Collaboration since you can edit HTML in areas such as blogs and pages. Check it out here.

May 22, 2009

Hold A "Science Fair" to Share Successful Practices

By Gary Hilson

A “Science Fair” is a great way for people using wikis to get together, according to Stewart Mader, regardless of what they work on, and share how they work.

Science Fair from Stewart Mader on Vimeo.

May 6, 2009

Conditions for Wiki Success

By Gary Hilson

Wikipedia is different from organizational wiki sites both because of its primary use - encyclopedia - and the way its community is structured. These characteristics have made Wikipedia successful, but they aren’t necessarily the conditions for success for every wiki.

Conditions for Wiki Success from Stewart Mader on Vimeo.

May 4, 2009