How to make Joomla image menus (image only) with rollovers and without javascript in the Joomla CMS system using CSS Sprites.
Joomla Image Menu Rollovers with CSS Sprites
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Joomla VS. WordPress – The New Project
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!
Templates and Themes: 5 reasons why you should use a template or theme when creating a website
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 sites […]
My Joomla SWMenu Video Tutorial now showing on the official site!
Good 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 […]
Meetup with Brian Teeman and the Milwaukee JUG (Joomla User Group)!
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(!).
On Web Hosting – My Thoughts
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 hosting […]
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 […]
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 […]
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:
From Joomla to WordPress
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 a […]
My Top 10 JOOMLA 1.5 Annoyances
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.
My Top 10 Joomla 1.5 Extensions
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 really […]
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.
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 […]