Tips and Tricks

Events, Data Storage & Layouts, Oh My!

A tutorial in answer to an innocent enough question ended up as an in-depth custom development example. This tip is aimed at web developers (not the general EditMe customer population). How to Add Custom Properties

Using the "Newton Skins" 

Some tips and trick on using these new skins can be found here.

Using CSS Classes to Format Your Site

EditMe's editor allows several text formatting options, such as the ability to set the font, size and color of text. We've found that these features are used most heavily by our least technical users, as they provide a simple way to attractively format content on the page. But, as some of our customers have found, these "one-off" formatting tricks have drawbacks. This tip discusses how you can use CSS to centralize, standardize, and simplify the formatting on your site to avoid these drawbacks. Read the blog post here.

Google AdSense

AdSense is a service from Google that pays you for advertisements clicked on your site. Advertisers pay Google every time someone clicks their ad, and Google gives you a cut for hosting the ad on your site. Luckly, adding Google Ads to your EditMe site is easy. Google offers three ways to monetize your site... Read the blog post here.

Host Videos On Your Site

Many customers have asked how they can display video content on their EditMe site. This Tip covers a few different options for hosting local video and streaming remotely hosted video on your site. Read the blog post here.

Customize Your Site with an Image Header

By default, EditMe displays the title of your site (which you can modify in Site Settings) in a box at the top of every page. See the big "EditMe Demo Site" text at the top of the demo site for an example. Many customers want to replace this text with an image logo or banner of their own. In this Tip, we'll show you how. Read the blog post here.

Calendar Integration

It's easy to integrate 3rd party web calendaring services into your EditMe site. This Tip shows you how. Read the blog post here.

The Power of Groups and Policies

Check out our latest blog entry on Groups and Policies. If these features have seemed elusive to you, we hope that this post's real world examples and in-depth coverage of the topic will help. Read the blog post here.  

Suppress Menu and Toolbar on Printing

You can suppress the menu and toolbar (or many other elements) on printing. See Hide On Print for instructions.

Make a Dynamic "Back" Button 

You can create a link from text or an image that will act like a browser's Back button. To do so, use the Link button in the toolbar, and instead of a Page name or URL, insert this: javascript:history.back();

Here's an example of this: Go Back 

[Phil] Is there a way to have a Go Back feature that will NOT return to the edit mode of a page, rather to the prior unedited page?  For example, I navigate to a page and edit it and save it. Then if I wish to return to the previous page before the edited page, all of the Go Back tips I have tried return me to the current page in edit mode rather than the page prior to the one I edited and saved. 

Tags

I am experimenting with using tags on an Editme intranet.  On each new page the user writes for example tagacc (Accounts) or tagtre (Trees).  The site can then be searched for pages with this tag.  To make the search easier, I am adding the search link to the menu: I write Accounts (tagacc) in the menu, then search for tagacc, then copy the resulting address http://mysitename.editme.com/_Search?q=tagacc&Submit=Search to the clipboard, then go back to Edit Menu, highlight Accounts (tagacc) click the link icon, and insert the address, and click Insert, then Save. -Chris

Long Page Titles

The tags thing works well  with another trick which is handy on an EditMe which is being used as a message board as well as a long term repository of other stuff.  We write the first part of the message, as much as will fit (sometimes all of it), in the title bar of a new page.  This will then show up in _Recent, and in the Index, and on any page linking to the new [PageName] as a message rather than just an enigmatic title to click on.  It makes it easier to follow a thread.  Messages start with the date, the writer's initials, and the message number (message 1 or 2 or 3 on that day), in this format yymmdd-initials-# (e.g. 050830jd1) so that they are ordered by date in the index.-Chris

#1 Add Search to Your Menu and Save a Mouseclick

1. Select "Menu / Edit" (on purpose, I tend to select it any number of times that I think I am asking for Page edit). Note: this feature is disabled except for admins on http://wiki.editme.com
2. Enter HTML mode by selecting icon
3. Add following HTML at top or bottom or other appropriate location in the HTML for your menu:
   <p><form action="/_Search">
   <input name="q" /><br />
   <input type="submit" name="Submit" />
   </form></p>
4. Select "Save" button to save new menu

Sugggested by Sean Murphy

#2 Add a "edit" button anywhere to remind people they can participate.

Tips and Techniques for Cascading Style Sheets

Deserves its very own wiki page, you can find it here.