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...
