Archive
New CommonSpot Tutorial: Making Collapsible Content with jQuery
New Tuesday Tutorial: Cycle Images Enhancements
New CommonSpot Tuesday Tutorial: Include HTML
New tutorial about the latest custom element: http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/commonspot/blog/2011/03/15/new-custom-element-include-html/
New CommonSpot Tutorial: Analytics Tips
Two simple tips to make your Analytics reports more accurate and easier to understand:
http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/commonspot/blog/2010/11/05/google-analytics-tips/
CommonSpot Templates
A new blog post about the recent change in CommonSpot templates is available: http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/commonspot/blog/2010/10/28/new-commonspot-templates/
Web Wednesday: ECU Google Maps Linking
The ECU Google Map gets many visits each day. To help enhance it’s usefulness as a resource for the campus community, it has an embedded JavaScript that will open the details of a building if you have created a properly constructed link and query string. As part of the CommonSpot Users Group meeting, I am presenting this information. Full details are in the presentation shown below:
Note that whether you use CommonSpot, WordPress, a visual web designer such as Expression Web or Dreamweaver, or a plain text editor creating “raw” HTML, the link technique shown will work.
You can see the links in action if you do a search on the ECU E-mail and Phone Directory page.
New CommonSpot Tutorial Tuesday: Google Search Element
Available at http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/commonspot/blog/2010/02/02/tuesday-tutorial-google-search/. Learn how to add a search for just your subsite.
Tuesday Tutorial: CommonSpot Custom Footer
The latest CommonSpot tutorial is up at the CommonSpot. This week: Custom Footer creation and editing.
New CommonSpot Tuesday Tutorial: Image Cycling
The newest CommonSpot Tuesday Tutorial is up at the CommonSpot Blog. Check out how to easily create an image rotating/cycling effect, as can be seen on this page.

