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We have been getting more and more beginner Joomla! users as clients, so we decided to create a list of great resources for Joomla! users from beginners to advanced. I know there are a lot more than what we have listed here, but it’s a good start. Enjoy!
I ran into a strange bug today while implementing sIRF into Joomla!. Everything seems great until I log into the frontend. Then the titles show this:
Contact Us <!– function olMouseMove(e) { var e = e ? e : event; if (e.pageX) { o3_x = e.pageX; o3_y = e.pageY; } else if (e.clientX) { o3_x = eval(”e.clientX+o3_frame.” + docRoot + “.scrollLeft”); o3_y = eval(”e.clientY+o3_frame.” + docRoot + “.scrollTop”); } if (o3_allowmove == 1) {runHook(”placeLayer”,FREPLACE);if(olHideForm)hideSelectBox(); } if (hoveringSwitch && !olNs4 && runHook(”cursorOff”, FREPLACE)) { olHideDelay ? hideDelay(olHideDelay) : cClick(); hoveringSwitch = !hoveringSwitch; } } //–>
After many hours of frustration we finally came up with a fix!
Many of you have probably noticed that the latest Joomla! has broken many scripts that rely on ItemID for processing. If you are using our code for using itemid for unique css on each page then you will want to implement this fix.
How many times have you wished you could style things differently for members than the public on your Joomla! site? Well, we just had a project that it was mandatory, so we set out to come up with some code to allow us to style the CSS separately. This is how it’s done…
Today we realized that the De-Modular Business template doesn’t display entirely correct in IE7. One issue that boggled me for hours on end was when I had 3 columns with the middle column divided into 2 additional columns and they acted like the 3rd column didn’t exist (default install in the Blog section). I am willing to bet that we are not the only ones that has had this happen with a Joomla! template. So how can you fix it?
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With some of the recent projects we’ve been working on we have had to come up with a way to control css on a page by page basis. It would seem that the only way around this would be to create a new template for each of these pages, but we have come up with an invaluable piece of code that will change the way your do your css with Joomla! forever.
A lot of chaos has happened over the last few weeks with non-secure Joomla! 3rd Party components. In result we have secured our site with ever possible way and this even includes utilizing the all famous .htaccess file. Read the rest of this entry »
It has come to our attention that JD-WP doesn’t work out of the box with Open-SEF. This is due to it having its own menu for Joomla! Now after doing some reading we found out that all you have to do is add it to the menu then unpublish it. Now go to Components -> Open-SEF -> Configuration. Click on Components in the menu above and make sure the check box next to Alias is checked then name it what you want it to display.
Now JD-WP is Open-SEF friendly 
I personally don’t think there is anything more frustrating than spending hours troubleshooting something only to find that one line of code is all that is needed to fix it. This is the recap of my day today: I had a great tableless designed site that seemed to hold up against everything I threw at it. Then I had a page that had a table in it and all hell broke loose.
Here is a nice little easter egg built into Joomla! If you add ?tp=1 onto your address string then it will show all the module positions for your template (example: index.php?tp=1). This could be a nice time saver, especially when using third party templates.
After installing Virtuemart, a highly integrated shopping cart for Joomla!, I realized that there was a small issue. The issue was with how Virtuemart and Joomla displayed the pathway of the cart. When looking at the product it displayed the a double pathway and with most of the links not working. While browsing a category you couldn’t go back to the main store because the link was not linkable. This was very annoying to me and after hours of figuring out what was going and going through code pieces I collaborated on a bunch of various different hacks and this is what ended up working for me and has been tested on all versions of Joomla and only with Virtuemart 1.0.5.
I am writing this for all those who constantly get paths wrong while creating templates (like myself)! Sure, you can get it right through trial and error, but when time is money it’s always good to have a resource you can visit to find the correct answer instantly. Keep reading to find out the correct paths to use in different parts of your templates and in other parts of your Joomla! site.
Did you know you can dynamically wrap modules in div tags within your Joomla! templates to make it tableless? For some this is old news, but for new users this could be a dream come true (I know it was for me when I first found out about them). With this knowledge, you can make your template validate XHTML and CSS, and almost WAI 1.0 Priority 1 in a default install of Joomla!
