Mar 17
2010

How to setup language in Kunena Forums

Posted by Georg in Untagged 

By default, Kunena forum will follow the Joomla site selected language settings. 

First of, have a look over here:

http://www.kunena.com/forum/107-translations

to see if someone else already translated Kunena to your desired language.If so, then download the existing file. If not, then you may download the translation toolkit:

http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/kunena/scmsvn/?action=browse&path=%2Ftrunk%2Ftools%2Ftranslators%2F

If you plan to redistribute your translation, review the terms of the license. To use the core kunena code for your translation for redistribution, you must adhere to the terms of the license.
  1. Perform the actual translation.
  2. Download the Kunena distribution, and unzip it. Find:
    administrator/components/com_kunena/language
  3. Copy the file kunena.english.php to kunena.yourlanguage.php
  4. Edit the file kunena.yourlanguage.php and replace the English text with text in your language.
  5. In the Kunena folder, find: /components/com_kunena/template/default_ex/images
  6. Copy the english folder and rename the copy your language. Alternately, copy the blank_images folder from the translation toolkit
  7. Using a graphics editor, edit each image in the icons folder,replacing or inserting text as needed
Create a zip file containig your translation, organized as follows
Name the file kunena_version_language_translation.zip. For example, kunena_1.08_english_translation.zip
Create the following files and include appropriate content:
README.txt
LICENSE.txt
Create the following folder structure for your files:
administrator/components/com_kunena/language Place kunena.yourlanguage.php here

components/com_kunena/template/default_ex/images Place the yourlanguage folder here,
containing at minumum, the icons folder.

Source: http://www.kunena.com/forum/107-translations
Mar 01
2010

1st March, Springtime...

Posted by Georg in Untagged 

Yes, not that those stuck in airports or on the autobahn would appreciate this blog too much. But our calendars are indicating March the 1st and that's already a spell of hope... Oh, maybe this term is deprecated, then the spirit of sping, there you go!

Some little robot, named Spirit, very popular on our planet, got stuck on planet Mars, for months, and this not because of snows, though there are puddles on Mars. Okay, let's not veer too much, shall we? Springtime is here! Spirit (the rover) sent us some high resolution pictures (where "us" means NASA.JPL as the "root" and anyone else from the public as "subdirs"). Take a moment to see the small green spell of spring from Mars. If you don't mind, use this as a wallpaper calendar on your desktop (given that it matches the resolutions offered).

martzi640x400

Feb 26
2010

Tips on Mass Uploading Inventory in Virtuemart with CSVi

Posted by Georg in Untagged 

Don't get scared, we're not gonna reproduce some online manual at hand. The tips listed below are coming from our hands-on experience with one or more customers. Joomla and VirtueMart is serving their online business sales and CSVi is the component that's making their mass data uploads a breeze. 

Some lil things:

1. The [excel].xls file must be properly converted into csv and NO "$" sign in the price cells, because the mySQL data base requires numerical data in the price field. 

Feb 23
2010

RocketTheme's Launcher Subtle Installation to Dreamhost

Posted by Georg in Untagged 

As you probably know, RocketTheme's Joomla templates are coming with an added pack called RT Launcher. This contains the complete Joomla install, not just the template, pre-loaded with specially crafted sample data that make your new site a perfect clone of the Demo at RocketTheme.
Jan 26
2010

In Joomla the SEF Still Needs a Menu, Here's How to Hide It!

Posted by Georg in Untagged 

Consider the following scenario: your client wants a very simple, and fast loading, Joomla site. In fact the client's paying for a Content Management Site solution, where he can go in and edit his texts. He couldn't care less if it's a Joomla, a WordPress or a Drupal, he (or she) needs a CMS delivery from your part. So far so good. But the client has a headache understanding the backend "other" site, the /administrator area... No problem! You simply create a new menu item link to the user default login layout page. Then the client may ponder she does not wants the login link visible on her site, because she is not considering collecting new user registrations. The login link should be only for her personal management purposes. Then you handle her this relative URL:
Jan 25
2010

Creative Password Guide

Posted by Georg in Untagged 

Another old and repeated saga: the simple dictionary passwords users cannot care less about. Comes yesterday, Sunday evening news on RTL. A short instructive survey indicates that the most used password is "123456" or... "password" - yes!, the word "password". And I thought that was a "Naked Gun" parody series gag by Leslie Nielsen...  Turns out that reality is often times worse than parody. You may do a google for the string: "most used passwords" in order to discover more attrocious variations of reality.

Jan 22
2010

SEF and non-SEF URLs in Joomla Root

Posted by Georg in Untagged 

It's an important aspect of web development to have humane friendly, and googlebot friendly for that matter. Joomla 1.5 and later is having a core SEF setting. There's also the very well know sh404SEF third party component with so many extended features for the picky ones. No news to Joomla people, right? Right!
Jan 21
2010

The Splash Page

Posted by Georg in Untagged 

Remember the cool '90s with the animated gif icons, the ugly Yahoo white page and no trace of Google... It was the HTML decade. The hyperlinks fad. The splash page epoch.

Now that we've got ourselves in the teens (2k-ten, right?) of another century, the splash page is no more than a nostalgia, or so we'd like to think. Because it still turns out some web people will insist on hiding their Joomla sites behind a splash page. They insist because they find that huge picture, or animation, or... something, so... impressive.
Jan 20
2010

The Joomla!, The JCE and the Bottom [Read more] Button

Posted by Georg in Untagged 

Yes, today finally a tip-type blog. No more ranting, no more rambling. Hey, nothing sure this will last long. So enjoy the moment.

Since about the last Joomla upgrade to 1.5.15 some of us were hitting in vain the bottom button [Read more] when entering their articles in Joomla. That button became nothing more than a deco element. Sheesh, not good!

The cause, and the solution, is the JCE WYSIWYG editor, better than the Joomla TinyMCE editor, I'd say.

Jan 19
2010

Security First, Usability Second

Posted by Georg in Untagged 

Once upon a time, a client wanted us to merge his SugarCRM into one "single" site with his Joomla! These two are indeed two different beasts, from function to design. For one, the Sugar Customer Relationship Management system is basically a backend oriented site. It's not even a site, to some extent, but rather a staff centered marketing instrument. On the other hand, Joomla Content Management System is THE site, the frontend, the public face of the company.
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