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: Installing K2 The K2 dashboard K2 categories K2 fields and field groups K2 items 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…
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%…
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: Price Weight Color A link for more information 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…
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.
Video Showing How To Edit a Joomla Template
We teach three kinds of website software: Drupal, Joomla and WordPress. At each class people bring different preconceived notions: Drupal: “This stuff is really hard, right?” Joomla: “This stuff is a quirky, right?” WordPress: “This stuff isn’t very powerful, right?” Our job is to convince them they’re wrong. One of the reasons people think WordPress isn’t powerful is because they believe it can’t be used to build an ordinary website with static pages.
Unlike Joomla or Drupal, WordPress doesn’t have a default contact form. However, there are many good options to choose from. We’re going to recommend a plugin called “Contact Form 7”.
One is warm, sunny and on the beautiful Pacific Ocean. The other is cold, rainy and on the grey Thames (I’m allowed to make fun of it … I was born in its suburbs) San Francisco and London and nearly 5500 miles apart and you might not think they have much in common. Normally you’d be right, but this is an exception. Next week we’ve got two Joomla classes, one in each city: London – March 10 (Beginner) San Francisco – March 12 (Beginner)
This week’s tutorial explains how to add metadata to your Drupal site. By default, Drupal has no fields for metadata. Check the source code at and you’ll see what I mean. To fix that issue, we recommend a module called Nodewords.