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A blog about the Joomla CMS with tips, tricks and evaluation of Open Source and commercial add-ons.
In this blog you are as likely to find a video tutorial about a specific Joomla Extension as you are to find an article about a recently discovered bug and its fix.
I write this blog to give back t the Joomla community and as such I invite you to let me know what you think and participate with your own thoughts and comments.
Making Dreamweaver recognize .INI and other non-native files
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Written by Marco Conti Monday, 28 September 2009 16:14
As most of my readers already know, I use Adobe Dreamweaver as my main IDE (Integrated Development Enviroment). While I also use a number of other powerful code editors, like Coda, BBedit, TextMate (on the Mac) and Notepad++, PHP Eclipse and others for PC, Dreamweaver has been my choice for many years, regardless of the low opinion some developers have for this program.
In fact, I found that not only Dreamweaver is a powerful HTML, CSS and PHP editor, but when working with Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal, Magento and pretty much90% of Open Source web scripts out there, Dreamweaver has many advantages , not least the infamous "Design" view, which in split mode can reduce the time it takes to edit dynamically driven templates by a factor of 5. (And incidentally, I am in the process of writing a book on how to apply these techniques to Joomla!).
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Virtuemart Flypage fix - flypage not changing on product pages
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Written by Marco Conti Wednesday, 16 September 2009 14:09
If you use Virtuemart with Joomla! and you have tried to assign a different "flypage" to each product category, you may have noticed that this feature doesn't always work. Fortunately, I have found a solution and made an easy to follow tutorial that anyone with server access or an FTP client should be able to execute fairly easily.
Fix the beez modified date from 1999
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Written by Marco Conti Saturday, 12 September 2009 13:02
In this article I uncover a bug in the Beez template that may affect those that use Beez "HTML" folder to override the default Joomla component chrome.
While writing an article on the Joomla date system I noticed that in my test site the "Last Updated" date in the article looked like this:
Last Updated on Saturday, September 12 1999
Create a clone or "staging" site for your Joomla website
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Written by Marco Conti Thursday, 10 September 2009 13:01
Over the many years I have been working with Joomla! I have found that creating a "clone" (or more than one sometimes) of the main web site I am working on is a very useful tool in a Joomla developer bag of tricks. If you are using Cpanel as your main hosting control panel, this process is very fast and easy to implement.
How to install and Configure JCE - Part 2
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Written by Marco Conti Wednesday, 09 September 2009 08:28
This is Part 2 of a 2 parts screencast about the Joomla Content Editor (or JCE). In this Part 2 of my JCE tutorial I go int more detail on how to use some of the JCE features. Remeber that this video was going to be part of my 10 Minute Joomla! Tips series but for a number of reasons I could not release it under that title. Consequently, I did not spend a lot of time editing and polishing the video and I apologize in advance if it's a bit rough. I hope you'll still find it useful and entertaining.
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- Joomla 1.5 - Sending System Emails from localhost
- How to install and configure the Joomla Content Editor - Part 1
- Change Joomla 1.5.x article date format
- Create a Static Joomla! 1.5 Homepage - take 2
- Internet Explorer 8 is here - What is means for Joomla and your CSS templates
- A list of Joomla1.5 core links
- Set Up a Blog in Joomla 1.5.x
- Joomla 1.5 base install add-on list
- Export your Joomla users to a new site
- New tutorial on JCE available
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