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But what are you gonna do when it dawns on you that:
- The template is so... common. Your site's looks won't stand above the average.
- That groovy AJAX web2.something extension won't play the way you wanting. Or...
- You messed up some ancient good serving extensions with the latest automated upgrade of your Joomla!
- 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.
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.
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!
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!
Joomla People: Constructing Web Apps From Ground Up.
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.
It began in the late summer of 2006. Joomla plus Virtuemart e-store for thousands to tens of thousands of items. Nothing special, nothing scaring. Yet it proved to be one of the worst ever project of the past decade. Why? Keep reading to see why:
Seems I can't help myself blogging back every morning. So yes, again the "back" tag. That's about to haunt the day again. Today about the back button in your browser. Theories of usability are divided.
Some sustain that users worldwide are mature enough not to loose your site from sight once they click an external link out. In simple words for the coder and the designer of web sites: What to do with external links? Code them to open in the parent window or in a new window? The former will pass your site to history once the visitor clicks on that link, because another (external, alien, foreign, not-yours) web site will occupy the very window where you were just cherishing the clicking visitor's arrival and presence. Now you've gotta relay on the visitor's fidelity to 'remember' the importance of returning to your site. And then also on his or her perspicacity with the simple use of that top left browser back button, where the unforgetting user is supposed to punch in order to return to your site, where you actually want him to stay instead of roaming the web at random, ever farther away from your displayed work and business.
I'm back. New morning, new problem to fix. Or maybe the old one to re-fix. Yeah, just like some (few) clients used to: when you wake up early in the morning, then you ignite the computer, start your browser, load the project and haste in to write a mail to the developer, asking him to "move that back yet a little bit more"...
The "back" theme of my morning today will focus on fluid designs for web sites. It's that kind of menus, or columns, or divisions to be more general, that will shrink by themselves if there are lesser entries to fetch from the data base. And, respectively, will expand when more entries are served to fill in the allocated screen space.
There are clients who think they 'know' how it works to build that site of theirs. The more they think they 'know', the less they do. How to recognize such a client from the very beginning:
1. He will slap a PDF file at you and demand a 'perfect' reproduction of the design in the PDF over the web site. Anyone having an idea about web design and Content Management Systems, or CMS, will smile at that demand.
2. He will send you color data in CMYK.
3. He will force you to stack in there, over (almost, at best) every 'sub-page' that lorem ipsum text ad nauseum. Like no one but you are called to fill and fix the lorem ipsum, align them, bold them and craft few more paragraphs under fugia nullat pariatur...
Sometimes you really want your latest posted article to show up on top of the stack on your fancy dandy groovy Joomla site. Quite a normal desire, I might add...
An always excellent start is to go in your Joomla backend > Menu manager > pick up your menu > edit menu item > parameters [advanced] > Category order / Primary order > Most recent first; apply and check it out. If not properly sorting your articles in the frontend blog, then keep reading...
Say you have to clone a Joomla site. If you do that through normal SSH, or [S]FTP if you're having time, and phpmyadmin, then, when coming the next Joomla upgrade, you'll have to do that by hand: same SSH, or FTP.
Here's a way to clone a Joomla site while keeping it under Fantastica script install and inherent one click button upgrades follow-ups:
Quite some of our customers were asking us to develop customized complex feedback forms in Joomla, detailed down to the tiniest design pixel positioning. See this example, for instance, on ellco.no - where we used Joomla Artforms' practically infinite customizing capabilities to deliver specially crafted forms.
Help, I need to change the welcome to the frontpage title tag in Joomla
We want to help you out with how to change the title tag in Joomla. Yes, we are talking about the frontpage title tag. The one you are "stuck" with when you install Joomla 1.5 or later. This title is "Welcome to the Frontpage". Annoying, isn't it.
When cloning Joomla sites on custom inhouse servers, it happens that Flex_header won't catch up correctly with SOME of certain menu itemids unless:
- You clear the cache of sh404.
- You then disable the component entirely. No need to uninstall it, just check the NO button in the 'Enable' configuration field.
- Then do some casual browsing over the frontend, make sure the Flex_header rearranged images are catching up correctly. If so, go on and enable the sh404SEF component.
Oh BTW, our Joomla!People team has just opened a web utility for servicing PSD to XHTML template hand coding requests. This goes for more than Joomla! Check it out here at secure-installation.com - yes, enhanced security web hosting included, if needed...
