customization

Customizing WordPress themes without losing changes on updates

The layout and appearance of a WordPress blog is determined by its theme. Most themes offer various options to customize its looks, but often some additional coding is required to create your desired design. If the theme files are modified directly, all modifications will be gone when the theme is updated. A more durable solution is desirable.

Embed Calendar

When creating Blogs or Websites, it's sometimes helpful to have a calendar on the site. This is often needed to inform certain members of a group or organization about a schedule or certain events. While it can be painful to create a calendar on your own, there are online calendars which can be embedded into a webpage very easily. Task: <ul><li>Find an online calendar of your choice.</li> <li>Learn how to embed this calendar into your webpage.</li> <li>Try to customize color and size of the calendar.</li></ul>

Add a custom Ribbon to a database in Access 2007

Ribbon was introduced in Microsoft Office 2007 as part of its "Fluent User Interface" and has became a well known and quite often used part of graphical user interface of applications (specifically on MS Windows). In MS Access prior the 2007 version the user interface of an database application was implemented by standard GUI elements such as forms, buttons, menus and context menus. The users of MS Office 2007 are used to work with Ribbon and are familiar with its advantages e.g. its shortcut system, we want to provide them with a custom Ribbon interface of Access 2007 database application.

Specification of a WEB GUI for several user groups

For telecommunication solutions software packages are released to the customers. This packages consist of several components, which are combined and released. In principle, each component offers full functionality, which can be restricted according to those features the customer has ordered. Furthermore language-specific adaptions are done (e-g- for German, English). The main steps in the workflow are - Product specification. The components of the released product are defined - Customization. Adaption by restricting the features for specific customers - Language Adaptions. All those steps are performed by specific user groups with specific functionality and rights.
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