Book - Joomla Made Easy
Over the last couple of weeks I have been getting asked for a good Joomla tutorial guide. While I have had to sadly turn people away with no real definitive solution or place to go to I have done some research and found a great product which as the title suggests “Joomla Made Easy” does make Joomla easy. This complete guide comes with not only a great step by step guide on how to install, configure and use Joomla but it also comes with Joomla templates, addon modules and guides on how to create membership sites.
Default Joomla Admin User Changer
For those of you who use Joomla regularly to develop your website you may not have realised this but each install you do has one common element with almost every other Joomla installation out there on the internet. Now for some of you reading this you are probably thinking “oh sure… whatever… you are definitly smoking alot of heavy drugs…” or “What are you on about?!?!?”… Sure there are alot of common elements between each joomla install that you make and after building a few Joomla sites you have a series of steps you take each time you install the software on your new site(s). Here is a couple of basic things that you should do to secure your installation of Joomla. This information I have colated after about 4 years of using Joomla right from version 1.0.9.
Finding Quality Joomla Components
Looking for a component can not only be very time consuming but also challenging. While there are many great ideas and options out there for joomla components. There are unfortunately alot of “hack together” styled components. In saying that it is good to see that developers are attempting to make components for joomla and share them with other joomla fans.
Joomla Template Options
Have you been spending hours looking for that right joomla template? Have you had a few joomla templates in the past or are sick of being stuff with the default ones that are supplied with Joomla when you download it? The good news is that you are probably not the only person who has had this issue. Infact up until a couple of years ago there were millions of users out there with this very issue. Joomla templating can be very difficult and time consuming even for the “experts in joomla”.
Whats the Verdict? Virtuemart 2.0 Released
After a break at Christmas I thought I would actually spend some time researching the technologies we frequently use at work. One of the things on the list of course is Virtuemart. Knowing that Virtuemart was going to be one vendor releasing a new platform I thought I would check to see if they had released the final to 2.0. Well I was surprised that they had finally got it released.
Customise Top Ten Module Virtuemart
Recently I worked on a project for a client and they wanted to customise their “Best Sellers” or Top Ten Modules appearance. The design came back with a product image, product price and a link to the product details. To achieve this in Virtuemart is not overly hard however it does have its inherit draw backs. Some include the fact you cannot have multiple module positions on your site for the top ten module. Instead you have to do the design for the one width / position then work your to the final product from there. This of course is for Joomla 1.5.x and Virtuemart 1.1.x. If you need a similar solution for older versions I will not be able to help as you should be upgrading your virtuemart store to the latest version along with your Joomla Install.
CSS for footer full width of screen
Getting a footer to go the full width of a screen is a painful exercise if you have never done it or have only done it a few times. After doing a lot of searching on the internet for a div and css solution followed by 2 hours of playing around I have found one that works in all browsers including Internet Explorer, FireFox and Safari. It is CSS 2.0 compliant code so it may not work on older browsers.
