The Joomlashack Blog
Joomlashack Developer Club
- Written by Barrie North Barrie North
- Published: 27 November 2007 27 November 2007
Whether you're a new or advanced user, if you're a web developer who is serious about Joomla! you might want to take a moment to consider the Joomlashack Web Developer Club. We'd like to invite you to join us "behind the scenes" to be a part of something great. We believe this will be very beneficial to those who use Joomlashack products and resources on a regular basis.
Joomla Day New York City
- Written by Tom Elliott Tom Elliott
- Published: 23 October 2007 23 October 2007
Some Joomlashack friends might have stumbled upon the fact that while our small & lean team is spread all around the U.S. (Alabama, California, Pennyslvania, and Texas), the company's "official headquarters" is here in Vermont. (By headquarters I mean two of us in the same office at the same time occasionally, a wireless network named "Joomlashack," and a P.O. Box for our mail. Our real HQ is a persistent skype chat.)
Needless to say, previous Joomla Days in the U.S. were not anywhere near Vermont, a tiny state 4,000 miles from Silicon Valley and closer to Montreal than any major American city. So when the the first East Coast Joomla Day scheduled just 300 miles away in New York, we jumped at the chance to drive to the Big Apple.
How to Install Joomla! 1.5
- Published: 28 September 2007 28 September 2007
Chris Davenport, the documentation team leader for Joomla!, just announced the release of the Joomla! Installation Manual. Thank you to Andy Wallace for developing this manual. Great work!
Why doesn't my template look like the demo?
- Written by Tom Elliott Tom Elliott
- Published: 26 July 2007 26 July 2007
Sometimes, a new Joomla! user may ask the question, "Why doesn't my template look like the demo?"
Each Joomlashack demo should contain important pieces of information such as module map, module class suffixes, and the differences of template and content. If you have a problem trying to achieve a desired effect, we suggest looking through the actual demo for the necessary documentation. Our documentation is on the live demolive demo of the template you purchased. This makes documentation much more up to date.
How to Reset Your Super Administrator Password
- Published: 13 July 2007 13 July 2007
We've all done it. There's nothing to be ashamed of. Have you ever installed Joomla!, only to realize that you've forgotten your administrator password? When that happens, there is nothing you can do but re-install Joomla, right? Wrong. Here is a website with a great explanation of how to reset your super administrator password, even if you can't log in to the administrator control panel.
Don't thank me. Thank them.
Creating a Full Width Wrapper
- Written by Amanda Tabush Amanda Tabush
- Published: 29 June 2007 29 June 2007
The goal here is to get a full-width page with no left or right modules showing.
First, you will need to create a menu item linking to the page to be displayed. This can be anything you want such as a gallery, wrapper, forum etc.
Next, go to the Module Manager (Modules > Site Modules).
The filter drop down is your best friend within the Module Manager. To the right you will see a "select position" drop down list.
Select the LEFT position.
A list of all modules available in the LEFT position are now displayed. Obviously the only ones of importance are the ones that are published. Starting at the top, click on a (published) module title link.
When the page loads you will see several parameters. Look to the ones at the right of the page labeled "Pages/Items". These are the menu items (or pages) which the module is to be present in its respected position, in this case LEFT. Use your control or cmd (mac) or cntrl (pc) key to select or deselect multiple items. You can also use the shift key to select multiple items in a row. The menu item you created to be full width should NOT be selected because you don't want this or any other module in the left column.
Make your way down the list in your Module Manager through all the LEFT positioned modules with the above method and do the same for the RIGHT position.
2007 Joomla User Survey Says: Who uses Joomla?
- Published: 29 June 2007 29 June 2007
Who is using Joomla? Does our survey tell us?
In April and May of 2007, Joomlashack conducted the first ever major survey of Joomla Users. Over 3,600 people filled out 31 questions ranging from how many Joomla sites they managed to what Joomla tasks they do most often.
The Joomla survey results confirmed many things about this powerful open source CMS, and also had a few surprises. Here are the results with some Joomlashack editorial observations!
How do I get Support at Joomlashack?
- Written by TJ Baker TJ Baker
- Published: 22 June 2007 22 June 2007
Joomlashack prides itself on its support. During the last several years we have used our forum to support our customers needs in many aspects, and as a result have the largest membership base after joomla.org and have helped thousands of users build a professional looking Joomla powered web site.
How do I buy a Joomla template?
- Written by Barrie North Barrie North
- Published: 22 June 2007 22 June 2007
Getting a world class template from Joomlashack is now easier than ever. We have implemented a new system to give you total control over your purchases, invoices and downloads.
Joomla Template Tutorial
- Written by Barrie North Barrie North
- Published: 18 May 2007 18 May 2007
Reprinted with permission from Compass Design: Valid W3C joomla template designs for your website
As part of the Official Joomla Documentation program, this tutorial has been developed by Barrie North of Compass Design. As well as here at the official Joomla Dev site (dev.joomla.org) it is also available at www.compassdesigns.net in various complete formats, Word, PDF and HTML.
In this tutorial, we'll go through the steps of creating a joomla template. Joomla is an open source Content Management System (CMS) that is freely (literally) available and supported by a large on-line community. Specifically, we will create a template that uses cascading style sheets (CSS) to produce a layout without use of tables. This is a desirable goal as it means that the template code is easier to validate to World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards. It will also tend to load faster, be easier to maintain and perform better in search engines. We will discuss these issues in detail later in the tutorial.