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Joomla VS. WordPress – The New Project
Tweet I gotta tell you guys, sometimes it’s difficult for me to decide what CMS to use to build my new projects. I’ve got a new site coming up, and as usual my choices are a toss-up between Joomla and WordPress. Let the battle begin!
By JG Monday April 18, 2011
Templates and Themes: 5 reasons why you should use a template or theme when creating a website
Tweet I had a disagreement the other day with another designer friend of mine who took issue with my use of themes & templates and didn’t understand why I always start out with a theme or template. He argued that my work wasn’t really unique and that the web was being diluted with carbon copy [...]
By JG Monday November 1, 2010
My Joomla SWMenu Video Tutorial now showing on the official site!
TweetGood news, folks. Sean White, the creator of the SWMenuPro system for Joomla over at Swmenupro.com saw my video tutorial the other day and wanted to use it on his official site. Awesome! Now, he never asked me to do this, but I don’t have a problem promoting any software that saves me time and [...]
By JG Saturday October 23, 2010
Meetup with Brian Teeman and the Milwaukee JUG (Joomla User Group)!
Tweet I had the pleasure of hanging out with some real movers and shakers in the Joomla community this weekend -the guys from the Milwaukee Joomla Users Group and none other than Brian Teeman, co-founder of Joomla(!).
By JG Sunday October 10, 2010
Fat-ASS Friday Links!
Tweet You know what I noticed? Everyone out there seems to have some kind of Friday link round-up, like Follow Fridays or Feel Good Fridays or something similar. Well, things are done a bit differently here at the crystal towers of Hypertransitory.com. Oh yeah, they’re done with a lot less class, too. Oh, well. We [...]
By JG Friday October 8, 2010
On Web Hosting – My Thoughts
Tweet I’ve had a few questions regarding web hosting from friends and clients recently, so I thought I’d do a video with my general opinion web hosting these days. Let me know your opinions or tales if you have anything you want to share. I’ll probably do more videos because I have more specific web [...]
By JG Monday October 4, 2010
How to style your module display positions better in Joomla 1.5
TweetI did another video tutorial recently on Joomla module positions, and I used the old trick of adding “?tp=1“ to the end of the url to display the module positions. If you’re unfamiliar with this, try browsing to your Joomla site and adding that to the end of the url. So if I had: “http://www.example.com/” I [...]
By JG Sunday September 12, 2010
JOOMLA Drop Down menus with SWMenu Free
TweetI just posted a video tutorial on setting up the SWmenufree extension in Joomla 1.5. It’s true that sometimes people don’t know what to do first when they install this extension, so I came up with a basic walkthrough. Here’s the vid (and make sure to subscribe to my YouTube Channel if you don’t want [...]
By JG Friday September 3, 2010
How to create a module position on the fly in Joomla 1.5
TweetThis is a Joomla tutorial I made on creating module positions because I saw a bunch of questions on this in the Joomla forums. Sometimes coming to grips with the module positions in Joomla is kind of a pain. So here’s the vid:
By JG Wednesday August 25, 2010
From Joomla to WordPress
Tweet This is a real quick rant. I run this site on WordPress. I chose it because I’d been doing a lot of sites in Joomla and I was ready for something different. Besides, after hearing all the time about how great WordPress is and how much Joomla sucks I just had to give it [...]
By JG Monday August 2, 2010
My Top 10 JOOMLA 1.5 Annoyances
Tweet Hot on the heels of my last Joomla article My Top 10 Joomla 1.5 Extensions, here’s another Joomla list. This time my top 10 Joomla annoyances. We all have them no matter what CMS we’re using, but the following are a list of mine, in no particular order.
By JG Tuesday June 29, 2010
My Top 10 Joomla 1.5 Extensions
Tweet I’ve done a lot of developing with Joomla. I’ll tell you, I used to be really impressed and pro-Joomla when I started over 4 years ago, but the honeymoon is long since over. There’s a lot of issues here and from what I’ve seen in the 1.6 Beta, they aren’t addressed. They need to [...]
By JG Sunday June 20, 2010
Setting up your Joomla site RSS for use with Feedburner
Tweet Here’s one I recently wrangled with while trying to get my novel site True Tales of the Soryan Order, built with Joomla, set up for RSS.
By JG Friday June 11, 2010
Getting your Facebook share thumbnail into your article from your Joomla website
Tweet I run this site using WordPress, but a lot of the other sites I develop are created with Joomla. Recently, I had a lot of trouble getting the thumbnail and meta-description from my sites to show up when I tried to share them on Facebook. Only the site name and the link to the [...]
By JG Wednesday June 2, 2010
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