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Joomla Image Menu Rollovers with CSS Sprites

How to make Joomla image menus (image only) with rollovers and without javascript in the Joomla CMS system using CSS Sprites.

By JG Tuesday April 16, 2013

WordPress Fun with Advanced Custom Fields

Good news, people…I’ve discovered the most fun you can have with Wordpress -and it’s with the Advanced Custom Fields plugin. Come on in and join the party!

By JG Friday April 5, 2013

WordPress Dynamic Headers with your Genesis Theme

If you’re using Wordpress with the Genesis theme, I’ve found a way to take all the pain out of adding dynamic headers by using a few awesome widgets and a very helpful video tutorial.

By JG Friday October 28, 2011

WordPress and Twitter: The Handbook!

It’s safe to say that this Wordpress & Twitter Handbook for Beginners ebook will change the course of human history for the better…

By JG Thursday April 14, 2011

Firebug Web Developer: A Guide To Making Your Web Developing Life Easier

This one is an intro to Firebug tutorial for those looking to get started. The video deals with Firebug, Wordpress and TextWrangler but you can apply it to your own tools of choice (ie Joomla and Notepad, etc.).

By JG Friday March 18, 2011

Targeting the BODY tag with CSS in WordPress

I recently had cause to resort to an old trick to target a single page with CSS. It turned out to be a bit of an ordeal in WordPress, although I must admit it’s still easier than in Joomla.

By JG Tuesday November 9, 2010

Preventing downloading of your Facebook hi-res images

I was uploading some pictures to my Facebook Fan Page and I noticed the “Download in High Resolution” link on the bottom right of the image. A few months ago I had read that FB was going to implement this feature but I’d forgotten all about it.

By JG Thursday November 4, 2010

Getting your Facebook share out of Facebook Cache HELL!

Actually maybe that should be Facebook Cache Limbo? It is a mystery. Anyway, great news, people! An issue that came up in the comments section of my previous article on Facebook thumbnails has been solved (or at least reliably worked-around). Commenter Nélio (man, you rock!) tipped us off to the existence of the Facebook URL [...]

By JG Friday October 29, 2010

Twitter Marketing Video Tutorial from Socialmediaexaminer.com

I’ve been getting a lot more into Twitter these days, and I pretty much owe it all to Tia Petersen from over at bizchickblogs.com. She dropped me a line on a post of mine regarding a free Facebook video from Mari Smith, and mentioned that she used Twitter more than Facebook. Well, I had to [...]

By JG Wednesday October 6, 2010

WordPress Related Posts Plugin and Database Woes

I’ve had this site running on WordPress now for a little over a year, and I’ve wasted a lot of time by not optimizing it. For this reason, I decided to enable my related posts plugin to try to encourage some more reading of the articles on the site. To that end, I finally got [...]

By JG Monday September 20, 2010

How to style your module display positions better in Joomla 1.5

I 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

I 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

Magazeen WordPress theme and the return of the incorrect comment date issue

This site runs off of the free Magazeen theme created by the folks over at Smashing Magazine. I’ve modified it quite a bit from the default, but I really like it as a starting template. The problem I ran into right away was the annoying “comment date bug”. It became obvious fairly quickly that when [...]

By JG Thursday August 26, 2010

How to create a module position on the fly in Joomla 1.5

This 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

Using Facebook Lists to post different status updates to different people

I’ve been doing a lot of Facebook wrangling lately, but one issue had me stumped and I couldn’t find a clear answer. The problem: I have a Facebook Fan Page, and of course my own personal profile. I usually post my artwork and other stuff regarding this website, etc. on my Fan Page. However, I [...]

By JG Saturday July 24, 2010

Setting up your Joomla site RSS for use with Feedburner

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

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 article [...]

By JG Wednesday June 2, 2010

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