This tutorial is the answer to two questions we’ve been asked repeatedly:
Essentially they’re looking to change a link from http://www.cnn.com to http://www.ostraining.com/link/cnn/. The link still goes to the CNN website, but it first goes to a url on the webmaster’s own site.
Lots of websites use a discussion forum to help their users.
Our choice of discussion forum for Joomla is Agora from JVitals.com. We use Agora to support our Joomla training students and in this tutorial we’re going to show you how to set it up on your site.
The Joomla team is happy to announce that they’re moving beyond T-shirts, hoodies and bags.
They’ve decided that the Joomla community needs a sexier and more athletic way to show their love for Joomla.
So say hello to the “Joola-Hoop”.
Joomla has even been lucky enough to launch with a famous celebrity endorsement with Michelle Obama doing the Joola-Hoop dance on the White House lawn.
Oh, and for you male geeks who aren’t sure if this product is right for you, we’ve been able to combine all your favorite things in just one irresistible photo:
This week’s tutorial is the first of a two-parter. We’ve had several students in our classes looking to build websites with multiple content authors … blogs, newspapers, university sites and more. A common request is to improve Drupal’s default handling of nodes.
This week we’ll show you how to give each person their own control panel for their nodes. This will allow them to much more easily see, understand and update the content they’ve submitted. Without it they’d be reduced to searching and guessing their way through the site to find their content.
Next week we’ll focus on how to create a workflow and allow nodes to pass through several approval steps before publication.
In order to give each person their own control we’re going to use a module called “Workspace”:
The hottest new extension in Joomla is K2.
Why? Normal Joomla articles provide you with a Title and Body. K2 gives you the flexibility to add much more information. Last week in Part 1 we covered the main administrator parts of K2:
If you haven’t done so already, I highly recommend that you go back and read Part 1 first. This week we’re going to focus on the frontend of K2.
Back in mid-2008, Kyle from JoomlaPraise.com approached me about writing a guest post. He was trying to promote AdminPraise, a new design for the Joomla administrator area.
I was sceptical. Very. So sceptical that I asked him to basically defend the need for AdminPraise. His guest post became Are Joomla Admin Templates Worthwhile?.
Fast-forward to early 2009 and I was able to review the next version AdminPraise2 and say: “No-one else is building administrator templates”. I didn’t see the point and it seemed many others didn’t either.
Now in 2010, I’ve got this to say: Kyle, you were right. I was wrong.
Have you heard people complain that Windows computers get more viruses and Apple computers?
There are many reasons for that but one of the ones most commonly stated is that there are just so many more Windows computers out there. They make a much more inviting target. The same is true with WordPress sites. They make up around 2% of all websites and so are a very attractive target. It’s common for WordPress beginners to end up with 100s of spam comments on their posts.
The solution? Akismet.com. They provide a great spam-blocking service. You’ll need it … around 83% of all comments are spam.
The hottest new extension in Joomla is K2.
Why? Normal Joomla articles provide you with a Title and Body. K2 gives you the flexibility to add much more information. For example, this is part of a K2 article about a camera called the Canon EOS Rebel:
Beyond just an article, you can add information about:
You can also add tags, videos, photo galleries, comments and more. You can see the full Canon EOS Rebel example article here.
That is the essential benefit of K2 … you can create articles with far more information and features.
Would you like to be able to update your Drupal site and automatically send those updates to Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, MySpace, Ning and dozens of other sites?
This tutorial will show you how.
Our first part will be to create an RSS feed to export new posts. From there we’ll use Twitterfeed.com and Ping.fm to distribute the posts to all our social networks.