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Creating a simple comment live preview to use with ExpressionEngine

July 15, 2008 continue reading

There probably are a magnitude of techniques on how to customize and personalize comment previews. In ExpressionEngine, by default, the comment preview's functions are stored in a separate template.

For my design, I've decided to reduce the amount of templates used. For this very blog, I am using a single template to retrieve data. I have done away with the single article template (comments template by default), the categories template, the tags template (I use solspace's magnificient tag module) and will most likely use this single template for the search and archives as well.

As this design is very young and not…

Further Reading

Previously Written

  • Highlighting menu items with ExpressionEngine

  • There are indeed are variety of means by which you can highlight a menu item of the current page you're on. One way would be to use ExpressionEngine's embedded template functionality which is very sophisticated. The downside in my view is that you have to — as the name…

  • RSS and Atom Feeds now Working

  • I've been contacted by a few readers that neither my Atom feed nor my RSS feed were working. This is truly embarassing, I must admit to my shame. The past few weeks have been explosive (in a good way) and I've had little time to write articles and such due…

  • On the Perils of Poor Documentation

  • Whether you’re a high-school or University graduate, there’s one thing our mentors have tried to impregnate into our brains as a vital tool to comprehend and memorise the information we are taking in; making notes of what we read, see, and hear. Granted, to some it may seem redundant or…

External Reading

  • The Aurora Concept

  • Mozilla Labs are working on new concepts that may change the way we browse through the cyber world in quite an innovative way. I am not all that sure what to think of it yet, but I'm intrigued by the idea and fascinated what our browser experience might look like in a few years from now.