by Ben Kinsey | Sep 26, 2019 | Blog, Digital Experience, Liferay DXP, Portals
Google’s Material Design is perhaps the most influential visual design philosophy for both web and mobile in existence today. Material Design has taken the front end world by storm, with specialized integrations for virtually all of the major SPA frameworks...
by XTIVIA | Aug 26, 2015 | Blog, Portals
The basic process of Liferay 6.2 Theme development involves creating a new theme, make changes to it, and deploy. It’s really a simple process; however. the only drawback to this process is that every time you make any changes to a theme, you will need to deploy it to...
by XTIVIA | Apr 28, 2014 | Blog, Portals
Sharing links on Facebook and Twitter is a huge traffic driver for websites. We’ve all pasted a link into that little box and watched that preview magically appear, but how does it know what to put in there? The answer is ‘Well, it does kind of, but not...
by XTIVIA | Jun 6, 2013 | Blog, Portals
This is part 3 of a series written for UI-dev/FED new to Liferay. This assumes you’re solid with css/html/javascript, and have at least a passing understanding of dynamic languages like PHP or ASP. If you have a Java background, you may want to skip the parts that...
by XTIVIA | Jun 6, 2013 | Blog, Portals
This is part 2 of a series written for UI-dev/FED new to Liferay. This assumes you’re solid with css/html/javascript, and have at least a passing understanding of dynamic languages like PHP or ASP. If you have a Java background, you may want to skip the parts that...
by XTIVIA | Jun 6, 2013 | Blog, Portals
This is part 1 of a series written for UI-dev/FED new to Liferay. This assumes you’re solid with css/html/javascript, and have at least a passing understanding of dynamic languages like PHP or ASP. If you have a Java background, you may want to skip the parts that...
by XTIVIA | Feb 10, 2013 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Databases, Portals
A very large gift given to us user interface developers in Liferay 6.1 is the inclusion of SASS support. One of the many ways SASS comes in handy is handling prefixed CSS rules – instead of having to specify each rule every time you, say, want to declare a gradient,...
by XTIVIA | Jan 9, 2013 | Blog, Portals
Twitter Bootstrap is a popular, easy-to-use front-end framework that not only allows for rapid prototyping, but also comes with a robust set of features that let you easily implement a responsive design. If you’re building a site from scratch, all you have to do...
by XTIVIA | Sep 17, 2012 | Blog, Portals
Portlets are the basic building blocks of any site running Liferay. The default portlet styles are fine; but to really make your site sing, you can get a handle on them and dress them up to look as good as the rest of that theme you so lovingly handcrafted. Let’s...
by Derek Nerenberg | Apr 26, 2011 | Blog, Portals
I recently came across a situation where the requirement was to create some navigation in a theme that spans communities. This is something that you would normally want to just hardcode in the links and move on to the next task. This scenario was different...
