A new site for you, launched this weekend using Joomla and a custom integration with Joomla maps. This site aims to find a New Years Eve party in every country in the world. 243 countries in which to find some celebrating. You can add your own party and see if they can make it to every country in 35 days. The purpose of the site is explained here and you can read more at NYEFun.com Technorati Profile
Since IE7 has come out, a lot of people have noticed that Suckerfish dropdown menus are allergic to it. The principal problem is that once they've dropped down, they refuse to scroll back up again. This affects a lot of Joomla sites using Suckerfish variations and also the Extended Menu module. The solution is thankfully, simple. If your list menu ID is called "topmenu", you only have to add the following lines of code to your css: #topmenu li:hover, #topmenu li.hover { position:static; } Thanks to Built from Source for the original tip and to Sam from…
Joomla is a great CMS, but its Search Engine Optimization (SEO) capabilities leave a lot to be desired. This problem is well-know however, and a lot of developers are beavering away on solutions. Here are 6 essential tools to get your site off on the right foot: 1) Joomla SEF Patch Its key benefit is that it allows you more control over the <title> tags. Instead of simply being "Home" or "Frontpage", you can add a more descriptive and keyword-rich title. 2) JPromoter (Commercial) Allows you to generate meta data and titles for each page individually.…
For over a year now we’ve run freelancer websites for Drupal and OSCommerce. Drupalancers.com and OSCFreelancers.com help people find experts from anywhere in the world. This week we’re starting to provide the opposite service by launching DrupalYellowPages.com and OSCYellowPages.com. These sites will help you find experts in your own neighborhood. We know a lot of companies want onsite training and to meet face-to-face with their developers. Hopefully these sites will help boost the growth of these two excellent open source projects.
Are you fed up with little square grey boxes saying "login" and then "logout" on your Joomla site. Here's how to liven up your login box. 1) Make 2 little graphics – one saying "login" and one saying "logout". 70 pixels wide and 20 pixels high is a nice size. Upload them to the /images folder as login.gif and logout.gif 2) Go to and replace DEFINE('_BUTTON_LOGIN','Login'); with DEFINE('_BUTTON_LOGIN',''); and also replace DEFINE('_BUTTON_LOGOUT','Logout'); with DEFINE('_BUTTON_LOGOUT','Logout'); This means no text will sit on top of your images. 3) Upload the new mod_login.php to your /modules folder. Click here to download it…
One of the great things about working in technology is that exciting developments occur so frequently. Some ideas are gone within months whereas others change the business completely. Whether the events of October 2006 go down as boom or bust might not be known for several years, but I thought it might be interesting to revisit two events that have the potential to reshape the World Wide Web. The Launch of IE7 and of .mobi are the key items in this month’s featured article. Read the whole article.
There are some extensions that are so lightweight and versatile, so funky yet practical, that we use them on the majority of sites that we make. The KL_Rssfeed mambot is one of those plugins. Install it to your Joomla site via the Mambot installation area and with a few clicks you produce one line of code that can be used to place as many news articles as you want on your site. To give just two examples, we use it on Pune.in and Nagpur.in among many others. So few lines of code, and yet so useful. KL_RSSFeed – you are…
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One of the great things about working in technology is that exciting developments occur so frequently. Some ideas are gone within months whereas others change the business completely. Whether the events of October 2006 go down as boom or bust might not be known for several years, but I thought it might be interesting to revisit two events that have the potential to reshape the World Wide Web. Internet Explorer 7 Throughout the history of the Internet there has been but one way to surf the Internet – using Roman characters. If you’re language used any script other than A…
Here it is, Ladies and Gentlemen… Joomla 1.5 (in Beta form at least). You can read the official posting here: The long and the short of it is that 1.5 is a developer-friendly leap forward from the older framework. Non-coders won’t see a huge difference in how Joomla operates until developers start putting forward their new components. Then the potential of the new software will hopefully become apparent. This is a crucial release for Joomla that will go a very long way to deciding whether it continues its current, impressive momentum: More than 60,000 registered users on the Official…