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Dressing Up Gravity Forms

Gravity Forms seemed to have one design issue that made the forms, although very functional, less than optimal as far as layout was concerned. But, it turns out that Gravity Forms has built in classes that can be used to create alternate layouts. Fields can be displayed two or three in…

WordPress 3.8 Upgrade Coming Soon

In preparation for our upgrade to WordPress 3.8 (coming in the next few weeks… additional email to follow), take a look at the following Lynda.com tutorial on some of the new changes. The most dramatic change is an entirely new look for the dashboard area of the website. The functionality…

Mobile Upgrades Coming Soon

Coming Thursday, October 24, a new theme enhancement will transform your website to work seamlessly on smaller mobile devices. Almost 20% of traffic to UF Health websites comes from mobile devices, and this amount is rapidly increasing. As more of our audience moves to using the web on their handheld…

Anchors Aweigh!

When building a very lengthy web page, Anchor Links provide an easy method for building internal links within the page to allow a user to ‘jump’ to a particular section of content on the page. An anchor link creates a named link on a page, called an anchor, that one…

Forms, Quizzes and Surveys

If you’ve ever had to build a web form on the Apollo template, then you are familiar with our forms plug-in, Gravity Forms. We’ve been impressed with Gravity Form’s ease-of-use and intuitive design, and it has proved to be a tremendous asset for our organization. Web Services has just…

Composing a Full Width Slider Image in Apollo

One of the biggest challenges in working with an extra wide, banner image is composition, especially when captions are designed to overlay the image itself. Without pre planning, key parts of the image can be obscured by the text box, negatively impacting the power of the image…

New Features: “All Posts” Page, Recent Posts Widget “More” Links

We are pleased to announce two new features for users of the UF&Shands WordPress theme: The “All Posts” Page The “All Posts” archive landing page displays all your posts, across all categories (excluding the featured category), similar to how WordPress displays posts within a specified category. Just add “…

Registering a UF Health Social Media Account

Web Services and UF Health News and Communications have been working towards streamlining the process for units to submit their proposals for social media accounts. As part of this initiative, we’ve created a new web form for submitting a new social media channel for review. Registering an Account Registering…

New Feature: Google Search, Multisite Search

Let’s face it: the default WordPress search engine is not very good. To help address this, you can now change your website’s search engine to use Google. The results will only contain links pointing to your website, but you should see many more relevant results than before. Also included is…