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 Outdated.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
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
I’ve been receiving a large number of returned email notices lately because some spammers have been using my domain in the FROM field of their spams. It seems to be pretty common from my research, and I’m looking into it … Read More
Came across this link listed a plethora of links to online tools: http://essentialkeystrokes.com/164-essential-tools-for-online-success/ Much of it’s known, but it’s nice to have the laundry list to shop from.
Using MySQL’s Concat and Concat_Ws is your friend when trying to search two joined column/field values. This will sometimes be encountered in a simple example such as a name search, when you have two columns: 1. First Name (fname) and … Read More
It’s very simple to link to an iFrame with Joomla by using Wrapper and the menu item. Below are the steps to follow in order to link to an iFrame through the Joomla administrator: 1. fire up you admin 2. … Read More
Joomla installs with a default of only 3 to 4 items on the home page (depending on your column configuration). I found it was somewhat complicated to find the administrative screen allowing you to increase the number of content items … Read More