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

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

K2 comes as the Drupal-like content constructor kit for Joomla. A long awaited feature that, some say, will get in the core of next Joomla v.1.6...

But when you install K2 by the book, together with the All Videos plugin and the Simple Image Gallery plugin [both by the same excellent Greek creator] you'll notice that the respective Image Gallery tab in the Item creation interface is either empty or returning an error message. Here's what to do:

1. SFTP in to these paths:

admnistrator/components/com_k2/models/item.php

admnistrator/components/com_k2/views/info/tmpl/default.php

admnistrator/components/com_k2/views/item/view,html.php

components/com_k2/models/item.php components/com_k2/models/item/view.html.php

and change all jw_sig or jw_sigpro > jwsig

If still getting a void, then:

2. Disable the JCE or TinyMCE wysiwyg editors, set it to 'no editor'.

If nothing happens, then:

3. Give us a line.

Enjoy K2!

Saturday morning. Crossing the midnight with a finger on Slashdot feeds. After breakfast had to watch "Lissy und der wilde Kaiser". Had to? Yes, could not help myself. Then back to see why the Trac install for webverksted.no, which I did before breakfast, right after dawn, has some login ssh configs to go before giving Erik and Aleks a free way into sharing and versioning tons of files, and projects.

Gotta blog some here on JP while the ladies in house finish the cleaning and some broccoli green stuff.

We're set to launch JP anew this weekend. It's about time. So watch this blog: I'll be back.

Well, that's a statement to stay in the e-universe, of course...

Everything we do means: Joomla! installing, customization, hosting, maintenance, upgrading, migration; template code customization; component code customizing and new component creation; module code customizing and new module creation; search engine friendly (sef) URL installing, customization; SEO (aka Search Engine Optimization) consulting; PSD to XHTML hand code template creation; and... click here to ask for something.Joomla! we forgot.

Everyone means: YOU!

Yes, running an online business is not JUST everything about template design, images slimming and fitting, links optimizing SEO-wise, content creation and management, feedback contact forms, e-commerce, shopping carts, communities, socio-nets, twitting, digging, flashing, youtubbing, googling or blah-ing...

It's ultimately turning down to the infrastructure, to the hardware (enhanced security servers cluster) and software elements burried deep inside the LAMP web hosting ecosystem (where LAMP goes for Linux Apache MySQL PHP)... Then what would be a Volkswagen without the marvel of the Autobahn.

And what's a Joomla! without web hosting excellence for Free... (go click this link to read what you get for the cents).

Here comes the (*)asterisk note, in same font size as the GRAND offer above:
IF and only IF you've taken your Volkswagen (Joomla! is the e.Volkswagen, remember?) from our service labs, then you may ride it TOLL FREE for three months time!

Considering you liked the late century so much (remember the flashing fonts or animated gifs) that you don't have a Joomla! website YET. Finally, the candy competing websites (owned by other providers in your business field) stirred enough envy thoughout your brain's backgrounds to determine you make the move: dumping THE old school Dreamweaver hard coded, proprietary/tributary, non maintainable, HTML static site of yours, dump IT right away!

Welcome to Joomla! This is the world's most popular CMS (that goes for Content Management System) web site engine. Modular and versatile. Way more than a blog and a tad less than expensive big corp owned Java monster web applications. Let me tell ya something: Joomla is the Volkswagen of the web era!

How to get one? Simple do:

Write Erik a short message (click this link); or

Fill in a Joomla! secure installation feedback form so we may know to get in touch with you ASAP.

Assuming you're already having a Joomla! site up and running. Hey, it's no big deal for many to click few buttons in their hosting panel and Voila! the Joomla! website has been automatically put in place by a Fantastico script.
But what are you gonna do when it dawns on you that:

1. The template is so... common. Your site's looks won't stand above the average.
2. That groovy AJAX web2.something extension won't play the way you wanting. Or...
3. You messed up some ancient good serving extensions with the latest automated upgrade of your Joomla!

What to do then?

• First: take a few minutes tour of our Joomla!People sites so you get the feeling about who we are and what we're doing for a living.
• Second: Ask your questions in our JP community forums.
• Third: If you're so satisfied with our service response and quality that you can't help yourself, then subscribe to one of our Joomla!People packs. Trust me, it will save you time and money for good added value servicing.

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. 

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.