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Oct 19
2008

In the can: Joomla template and CSS videos via Lynda.com

Posted by Jen Kramer McKibben in templatesjoomla 1.5frontend interface design4web news

I just got back from a week in Ventura, CA, working for Lynda.com.  If you don't know them, they are one of the best training resources out there for most things related to web development.  Way back at Dreamweaver 3 and Photoshop 5.5, I learned

Sep 08
2008

404 page not found handling

Posted by Bill Tomczak in templatesjoomla 1.5developmentcoding standards

Once we had decided against using sh404sef, we were still left with the need to handle '404 Page Not Found' errors. Clear and explicit information on this wasn't particularly easy to find, so I thought I'd document how we did it here.

 In J!15,

Jul 15
2008

Template Overrides - Part 3

Posted by Bill Tomczak in templatesjoomla 1.5

Creating a template override can be very simple or highly complex. It will depend on the Joomla core generation code you want to override and what you want to do. A relatively simple example that has been requested often in 4Web's work removes those

Jul 12
2008

Joomla! Magazine article coming soon

Posted by Jen Kramer McKibben in templatesjoomla sitesjoomla extensionsjoomla 1.5information architecturefrontend interface design

We've been asked by the Joomla! Magazine people to write an article about our MassAcorn website. It features all layouts done with a single template, among other cool features. We also used some great free extensions which we'll also discuss.  We're
Jul 06
2008

Joomla Modules: options for the container surrounding them

Posted by Jen Kramer McKibben in templatesjoomla extensionsjoomla 1.5

When you include a module position in your Joomla 1.5 template, the code looks something like this:

<jdoc:include type="modules" name="left" style="xhtml" /> 

This means that this is a module, with a position of left and a style of XHTML.  

The

Jun 29
2008

Template Overrides - part 2

Posted by Bill Tomczak in templatesjoomla 1.5

You've been designing your new website, creating a template to your client's specifications. All is going well. They are making use of the weblinks component for publishing their list of favorite links. They call up and say, "we really don't like

Jun 24
2008

Template overrides - part 1

Posted by Bill Tomczak in templatesjoomla 1.5

One of the more exciting improvements in Joomla! 1.5 is the idea of template overrides. Joomla! templates can be thought of as a wrapper for displaying content produced by the various Joomla! components, modules and plugins/mambots. If you've ever

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