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Friday, 26 February 2010 14:31

Tips on Mass Uploading Inventory in Virtuemart with CSVi

Written by Georg

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. 

Tuesday, 23 February 2010 20:28

RocketTheme's Launcher Subtle Installation to Dreamhost

Written by Georg
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.
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:
Monday, 25 January 2010 12:47

Creative Password Guide

Written by Georg

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.

Friday, 22 January 2010 18:10

SEF and non-SEF URLs in Joomla Root

Written by Georg
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!
Thursday, 21 January 2010 19:54

The Splash Page

Written by Georg
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.
Wednesday, 20 January 2010 16:43

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

Written by Georg

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.

Instead of desperately staring at the dead core thing, why not stare at this screen shot:

...and click on that button to solve your [Read more] problem tag.

Happy Joomla JCE editing wishing y'all!

Tuesday, 19 January 2010 09:47

Security First, Usability Second

Written by Georg
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.
Monday, 18 January 2010 16:32

The T2, K2 and Their Inner Connecting Powers

Written by Georg

Yes, we're in that age when anyone's gotta get connected with anyone. For what reason?! Err... well, that's not been thought of. At least not for now. Just let's connect, let's get in the hub, do some chatting about what we've done this morning. Ya know, waking up, bathroom, breakfast, bus (or train, or car), business, back home, boring stuff... Just put it up there and feel important. Some will (are already, wow?) definitely harvest(ing) all the trivia from the public hubs and build nice projects of the future, cute models and more than few neat prognosis charts to be thrown on some table, for some other investment. Sounds like the bursted bubble of ten years ago. Possibly bit more mature because of the better infrastructure. As for the networking software running the clouds and clusters? Most, if not all, was in place through the '80s on mainframes.

Friday, 15 January 2010 09:14

The Winning Formula

Written by Georg

Remember yesterday's blog? It happened the same summer, lasted for a month, the building, and keeps on and on with regular maintenance ever since. Couple months ago we even did a major upgrade to it. This is, as you may already figure, another client. Still the provider team is exactly the same one: same web developer, same graphic designer, same web programmer. And this is a very successful web project we're gonna do a fast case blog about.

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