Entering typographic apostrophes
The typographic apostrophe does not have its own key on standard computer keyboards. To make the character easier to enter, publishing software often converts typewriter apostrophes to typographic apostrophes during text entry (with or without the user being aware of it). A similar facility may be offered on web servers after submitting text in a form field, e.g. on weblogs or free encyclopedias. This is known as the smart quotes feature; apostrophes and quotation marks that are not automatically altered by computer programs are known as dumb quotes. (more…)
Hopefully this how-to will replace or at least substitute my google docs editable content how-to.
I needed to add editable business hours and contact info to the sidebar of my RapidWeaver inventory site. This was fine when the web host allowed me to use the php include() function to show content from an outside domain. Now that feature has been removed from my particular host for security reasons. I think this method will be more elegant anyways because I am using WordPress for the whole site rather than both the latter and Google Docs.
I built a page in the WordPress backend and typed in the business hours on one page and contact info on another. Then I made a copy of the inventory main page and called it pages.php under the inventory subfolder. The page is an exact copy except I took out the sidebar content and eliminated this code from the content area:
<div class=”blog-entry-title”><?php the_title(); ?></div>
<div class=”blog-entry-date”> <!– <?php the_time(‘Y-m-d G:i’); ?> | –>
<span class=”blog-entry-category”><?php the_category(‘, ‘); ?></span> |
<span class=”blog-entry-permalink”><a href=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>”>Print This Item</a></span> |
<span class=”blog-entry-permalink”><a href=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>#respond”>Inquire About This Item</a></span> | </div>
This how-to will follow me as I work through the process of building a site starting with RapidWeaver. The site will be bare-bones structured in RapidWeaver, then I will take the home page and turn it into a Joomla theme. Then content will be added to the site using Joomla articles. I will also use the FaceBook Connect platform to get a family website off the ground quickly by adding the family members’ FaceBook pictures and feeds to each of their pages. Although there is not much I have found for rich Flickr content, I will also be adding Flickr sets to the page for easy gallery uploads. The first installment will be showing you how I tricked Joomla into thinking a RapidWeaver page was a fully functional theme without any changes to a bare-bones Joomla theme. Stay Tuned…