Disabling the context menu

The context menu is a common feature in many web browsers. Often called the “right-click menu”, it allows visitors to easily interact with a web page in various ways. The context menu may be used to navigate forward and back, to open a hyperlink in a new window or tab, to inspect a page’s source [...]

Out of Office

I’m going off the grid for a few days. In a couple of hours I will be leaving for Virginia to visit family. They’re way out in the sticks without broadband, about an hour from the nearest WiFi signal and in a cell phone dead zone. I will be essentially unreachable while I am away, [...]

Designing the CE2 Mobile Gallery

In 2010, we released the first Core Elements web engine, TTG Stage CE, and with it introduced our first mobile gallery. As a first-draft mobile solution, it was a neat feature and a relatively good answer to the mobile question, “How do we cater our galleries to iPhones, iPads, Android OS and other modern mobile [...]

Custom stylesheets via PHPlugins

In this brief tutorial, I will show you how to implement a custom stylesheet using PHPlugins. Styles will be applied globally to all PHPlugins-enabled pages and galleries on your site, so this is an excellent method of applying background images, custom spacing and other styling rules to your site. Being a fairly simple procedure, this [...]

CE2 Updates Available Now

Updates have been posted for all CE2 engines. Changes are minor, addressing various bugs that have come to light via community discussions over the last two days, and I’ve taken the opportunity to clean up other minor items. Changelogs for each engine are available on the wiki. I have also been updating the demonstrations at [...]

Password Protection in CE2

Password protection has long been a popular feature in TTG plugins. For CE2, we’ve revisiting the protection feature and made a few significant improvements. 1. Protected Indexes Previously, it was impossible to password protect an auto index due to the way indexes were structured. For CE2, we went back to foundations and took the opportunity [...]

New TTG CE2 Theme for WordPress

The most successful businesses keep their audience engaged, up-to-date and coming back. A blog and a constant stream of new content comprise one of the most effective methods of engaging your audience online. For too long, blogging as been the missing piece of the TTG puzzle, but no more. TTG CE2 Theme for WordPress combines [...]

The CE2 image galleries

There are currently three image gallery plug-ins available for CE2. This begs the question, which should you choose? Ideally, the choice between galleries should be a matter of presentation, not of features. To that end, I have strived to keep the gallery feature sets as parallel as possible. The choice is between TTG CE2 Highslide [...]

TTG CE2 Pages update

The CE2 updates hit last night in one big pile. Now it’s a new day, and time I wrote about each of the releases. TTG CE2 Pages abounds with changes large and small. One change likely to have a tremendous impact on your designs is the separation of the content area into two parts, the [...]

TTG CE2 Cart update

The CE2 updates hit last night in one big pile. Now it’s a new day, and time I wrote about each of the releases. The CE2 releases are major new versions, indicated by a whole number jump in version numbers. The exception is TTG CE2 Cart, which has gone only from version 1.2.x to version [...]