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Web Content Management Articles

What to Know When Considering Custom Fonts for Your Web Site

June 22, 2010 - Article by Alex Bilstein

This article will introduce you to the concept of web fonts and show you how they can enhance the design and branding of your web site. In addition to covering the technical issues, the article will help you navigate the often confusing licensing issues surrounding web fonts.

@font-face: The Easiest Way to Use Custom Fonts on Your Web Site

June 22, 2010 - Article by Alex Bilstein

This article will introduce you to the @font-face CSS rule and enable you to use custom web fonts on your site. You’ll learn where to obtain properly licensed fonts, how to generate the necessary files, how to put it all together, and finally some performance tuning tips.

Web Font Realities - A Case Study in Implementing Custom Fonts on a Modern Web Site

June 22, 2010 - Article by Alex Bilstein

Implementing custom fonts on your web site is not always as straight forward as it could be. This article is a case study of the custom font implementation on the Blue Fish web site and illustrates the technical and legal hurdles we had to overcome.

Customizing the Web Publisher Rich Text Editor

April 16, 2010 - Article by Lisa Hill

This article will give a behind the scenes tour of the Web Publisher Rich Text Editor and will get you started with configuring and customizing it to meet the needs of your business.

Web Publisher Technical Architecture: A Primer

February 28, 2009 - Article by Nichole DuBose

This article provides an overview of a typical Documentum web publishing environment configuration - what each of the components do and when to use the optional components and products.

Tips For Making Your Website Section 508 Compliant

December 22, 2008 - Article by Marc Perlman

Many of the good design decisions and development habits that we follow to create usable websites can help make your website accessible to the visually impaired - even if the law does not mandate your website to be Section 508 compliant. This article shares some tips on how to ensure compliance while building a usable and accessible website.

Synchronizing Web Content Across Web Publisher Environments

November 7, 2008 - Article by Nichole DuBose, Cory Lowder

Are you interested in keeping your Web Publisher environments fresh with the latest content and templates? In this article, we’ll explore some of the challenges with migrating web content and templates between environments and outline the key elements for successful web content synchronization.

Creating A Photo Library Using Web Publisher Categories

October 10, 2008 - Article by Marc Perlman

Tired of cataloging your company’s digital images on file shares, standalone web solutions, or on CDs in a filing cabinet? Blue Fish built a photo library solution that allows employees to one stop shop on a client’s corporate intranet for images. Using Web Publisher Categories, content administrators can maintain the photo library in the same familiar web application already used to author web pages. This article explains how to bring this unique experience to your WCM solution!

Improving Web Publisher Usability

August, 29, 2008 - Article by Lisa Hill

This article provides tips for improving Web Publisher usability in both the 5.3 and D6 releases.

Bullet Proof Markup: Designing for Web Content Management Systems

August 6, 2008 - Article by Alex Bilstein

The web design landscape has changed a great deal in the last few years as web standards have gradually gained acceptance and modern browser support for CSS support has greatly improved. The benefits of semantic markup are generally accepted without much argument. Tables are no longer used for layout. Markup is clean and lean. These are all admirable achievements, however, the benefits of flexible, reusable markup are rarely discussed. These benefits are especially important when designing page templates for content management systems. In this article, I’ll show you how to employ some simple markup hooks and CSS strategies that can go a long way when reusing code or redesigning a site.