Mon 03 Mar 2008
08 00 AM
In this post I’d like to introduce you a couple of Joomla extensions you can use to improve the image managemente of your website.
photo credit: Matthew Fang
HighSlide for Joomla [Creative Commons] it’s a plugin that implements a Javascript interaction like Lightbox. The difference with Lightbox is that the website is not put in the […]
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Thu 22 Nov 2007
10 58 PM
PixPro is a Stockholm web agency that has recently released a Joomla module that is quite interesting.
This module, called PixSearch, was created to imitate the search function you can find at Apple.com, which gives you instant results based upon the words you type in the search form.
You can see the component in action on […]
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Tue 30 Oct 2007
07 32 PM
To integrate Google Analytics inside a website you have to add a few lines of Javascript at the end of the html pages, in order to let Google know when someone visits your pages, and all the information that you want to know about.Using Joomla you can use a more high-level approach using a module […]
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Tue 09 Oct 2007
09 33 AM
The standard version of Joomla is not really Search Engine Friendly, and from a SEO point of view, we can improve it.
How can we do that? Using one of the plugins provided by the Joomla community, for the Joomla community.
sh404sef is under GNU GPL license, has a great administration panel, it even supports a component […]
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Sun 07 Oct 2007
09 48 PM
How can you backup in an easy way the entire Joomla site, both the files and the database?
An easy-to-use plugin that does provide these features isĀ JoomlaPack, http://www.joomlapack.net/, that backups your site and creates a useful installer to easily recover your system.
If you want an automated backup, you can use JomBackup. You can find it […]
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Tue 02 Oct 2007
12 51 PM
During the Joomla installation, in the first page of the setup, the installation script checks the server setup. In many server setups you could find the line “Register Globals” set to ON, and evidenced in red like it’s an error.
This error does not prevent you from installing Joomla, in fact it’s more a warning than […]
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Mon 01 Oct 2007
01 29 PM
This tutorial shows how to write a Joomla module that performs a database query and outputs the result.
This module will display in a little box five articles, belonging to a given category and section, based upon the “Finish Publishing” date.
Let’s suppose you have a section named “Events” and a category “Sport Events”. We want to […]
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