1. Links from my APEX UI & Themes Talk

    Just wanted to put up some links from my talk on APEX UI from ODTUG Kscope 11. Hopefully a full blog post is coming soon! ;)

    — compass/scss http://compass-style.org/

    — modernizr http://modernizr.com/

  2. Mastering Custom IRs in APEX 4.0: How you can fully control the look and feel of your Interactive Reports Toolbar

    Mastering Custom IRs in APEX 4.0: How you can fully control the look and feel of your Interactive Reports Toolbar

    One of my favorite undocumented feature of APEX 4.0 is the vastly improved usage of DIVs for laying out many of APEX’s UI components. This move away from table-based layouts gives developers more control and less html markup to futz with. What was very difficult or even impossible in previous iterations of APEX is now possible and very easy to do having just a little HTML and CSS knowledge.

    In this first How To series of my blog, I will go through how Interactive Reports are rendered in APEX 4 and how you can use CSS and image sprites to completely modify the way your IR looks. We’ll take a look at an example that features an extremely customized version of an Interactive Report, and then drill deeper into the code that makes it happen. Let’s begin!

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  3. Designing APEX

    A new blog from APEX dev team member Shakeeb Rahman.  In this blog you will find out how to customize, modernize, and design your APEX application to look and feel its best.