I needed a simple Joomla slideshow recently. After downloading, installing, and taking test drives of a few of them, I decided to go with the Joomla SmoothGallery + Lightbox Mambot. I had to make a few hacks to make it … Read More
These sets of steps are for moving a Joomla site from one linux server to another. This is documented mainly for my own reference, and I think it might make some assumptions, but if you’d like to give it a … Read More
Here’s a blog post attempting to make the case of dropping the www. from urls: The reason for the extra www is now a matter of history. It’s old. Deprecated. Outdated. Antiquated. Like websites that only work in Internet Explorer, … Read More
Pretty popular blog post dugg up here: http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/blasting-the-myth-of There is an astonishing amount of disbelief that the users of web pages have learned to scroll and that they do so regularly. Holding on to this disbelief — this myth that … Read More
I was recently trying to figure out how display sublevel menu items with the Joomla menu style set as Flatlist. I found a post here: http://www.joomlajunkie.com/read-our-blog/p,2/ You can search the page for this single posting: Oke, I did a little … Read More
A nice post from polishlinux.org outlining some SSH capabilities: http://polishlinux.org/apps/ssh-tricks/# SSH (secure shell) is a program enabling secure access to remote filesystems. Not everyone is aware of other powerful SSH capabilities, such as passwordless login, automatic execution of commands on … Read More
Going to document the installation procedure for the JCal Pro calendar extension for Joomla. This extension is by Anything-Digital.Com, published as free software under the GNU General Public License. The documentation for JCal Pro is done very nicely. I’ll follow … Read More
I recently had had enough of Joomla’s default content editor reformatting the html source in my static and content items. Joomla’s default editor is TinyMCE, and it’s a pretty capable option for editing. However, I’m often editing the html directly … Read More
Here’s a good post worth looking at. It works the same with smaller outfits too. From the site: One of the things about being a freelance worker is that it is so free. This can be a tremendously liberating thing, … Read More
Below is a little CHMOD calculator I found on the Web. I took it because it was just too cute. You can link to it here: http://www.ss64.com/bash/chmod.html
