I tried to log on to our realsmartcloud site from my iphone last week only to be returned to a non logged in home page.  This was strange as I log in all of the time from my iphone.

After a bit of a search on the web I found that cookies had been disabled by default for safari on the iphone4s.

Access the settings screen on your iOS device;

Go to the “Safari” setting page

Enable cookies by selecting “accept cookies from visited”;

And that’s it!

We have a new profile update page that allows you to quickly update you password and avatar straight from the home page.

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You need Google Chrome Frame!

Google Chrome Frame is an open source plug-in that seamlessly brings Google Chrome’s open web technologies and speedy JavaScript engine to Internet Explorer. With Google Chrome Frame, you can:

• Start using open web technologies—such as the HTML5 canvas tag—right away, even technologies that aren’t yet supported in Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, or 9.
• Take advantage of JavaScript performance improvements to make your apps faster and more responsive.

Click here to download

Network managers don’t depair – you can even download and MSI from here

Google can support you with any aspect of the Googe Apps for Education.  Please note that only school Google Apps administrators can request this support.

To access the support control panel log in to realsmart and navigate to your email page.  From the email page select the mail cog and choose manage this domain.

Here you will be logged in to the Google Apps control panel.  From here select the “support” menu.  In the support menu there are a range of different support options from FAQ’s, forums, email support system and a contact telephone number.

Occasionally spam robots will target your site with comments offering you search engine optimisation, free stuff etc. Whilst most of this is harmless unless you follow the links it can become a bit tedious.

A.kis.met is a free to use spam filter for your wordpress blog, here is a quick startup guide.

Go to https://akismet.com/signup/#free you can choose here to pay for the service or not.

Enter your credentials, click continue. The service will email you an api key that you need to enter in to your wordpress admin area here.

Enter your key, then select update options.

Easy eh?

Changing the colour of your cloud website’s menu bar couldn’t be easier. Here we provide a short snippet of code to help you customise your own school’s menu bar.

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A favicon is a tiny image (just 16 pixels square) that will display on your browser’s tabs (and sometimes address bar). Adding one is very simple and can give that little bit of extra visual assistance when visitors to your cloud site have too many tabs open!

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Importing users into realsmart couldn’t be easier! Simply follow this simple guide to get all your users online in Realsmart within minutes.

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If you want to add a front page message rather than a list of new posts, here’s a quick way of achieving that.

What we’re going to do is:

1. Add a new post
2. Make it sticky post on the front page.
3. Remove the ‘post’ styling.

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The ‘Webcell’ editor doesn’t just allow us to post plain text and images. Through HTML code we can create almost anything. This guide will take you through the HTML process step-by-step and give you a few practical examples of what you can achieve.

Using the ‘Webcell’ editor

Just in case any of you were wondering, this is what we call the ‘Webcell’ editor.

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