Category: Web Building

xAPI Statement Generator based on the ADL xAPIWrapper

Posted on February 11, 2014February 11, 2014 by ellen

I’ve been developing various xAPI projects using the ADL wrapper, which is a framework for making calls to the LRS. It became obvious early on that I needed a way to generate and test more

Continuously detect window resizing with jQuery

Posted on January 26, 2014 by ellen

@media statements in stylesheets are fine for defining responsive css changes that activate when the browser window dimensions fall within a certain size range, but what about when you want to activate a javascript function

IE8 and Fontawesome: @fontface fonts show as boxes on some machines

Posted on January 19, 2014February 6, 2014 by ellen

I’m working on an HTML5 project that uses Fontawesome symbols for the Previous and Next buttons. On most browsers including IE8, @fontface fonts just work, most of the time. They won’t work if IE8 is

Stretchy Captivate that fits the Saba Player frame, on all browsers

Posted on January 11, 2014February 5, 2014 by ellen

Web-based learning activities in our old LMS were displayed in a flexible-size frameset, – the Rustici SCORM Engine player window. The SCORM Engine spoiled us with its many settings Content that needed to be large

Customize Saba People Cloud themes using jQuery

Posted on January 3, 2014January 30, 2014 by ellen

Saba People Cloud provides for settings changes through the UI for theme styles and labels. This may not be suffiicient to achieve the workflow and usability improvements you need. To do more significant theme changes,

Goodbye, Movable Type!

Posted on November 19, 2013January 30, 2014 by ellen

Wow, it seems I’ve been blogging for 10 years now! I started using Movable Type (to blog about installing Movable Type, of course) way back in 2003, but now it is time for a change.

Getting SCORM to work across multiple windows with no persistent frame

Posted on September 8, 2013January 6, 2014 by ellen

My department has been using a custom-built SCORM Learning Module template for developing our corporate training. The template permits a variety of page widths and flexible height throughout, and has features such as branching, dynamic pdf

WordPress HTTP 500.0 Internal Server Error: File monitoring is enabled for a file which could not be found

Posted on July 19, 2013December 29, 2013 by ellen

After using Windows Platform Installer to install WordPress you may get the error shown below: HTTP Error 500.0 – Internal Server Error File monitoring is enabled for a file which could not be found (note

Movable Type: How to emulate an MTEntryIfNotExtended tag

Posted on June 20, 2013November 19, 2013 by ellen

Movable Type has a built in container tag

<MTEntryIfExtended>

which is often used to show the “More” part of a long entry, or anything else that should be displayed only if the entry is extended:

<MTEntryIfExtended> <$MTEntryMore$> <div>Special text or page elements for Extended Entries go here</div> </MTEntryIfExtended>

But what if you want something to show up only if the entry is NOT extended? There is no corresponding <MTEntryIfNotExtended> tag.

Fortunately that functionality is simple to replicate using Movable Type variables.

Movable Type: Publish error in Master Archive Index:

Posted on June 19, 2013September 1, 2018 by ellen

Occasionally when re-publishing my whole site after modifying the templates, I get this error:

Error in <mtArchiveList> tag: Error in <mtArchiveLink> tag: You used an <$MTArchiveLink$> tag for linking into 'Individual archives, but that archive type is not published.