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Do You Have a Refund Policy
Many readers of this blog are one of two types of business, customization/design of Joomla websites or downloadable digital products. Prompted by a chat among some of my colleagues, I’d thought I’d see what people think about an important part an online business – your refund policy.
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Chicago Joomla EXPO Presentation-Building a Successful Website with Joomla 1.5
Here is my presentation about building a website in Joomla that was given at the Joomla EXPO in Chicago in May of 2008.
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Chicago Joomla EXPO Presentation-Creating a Pure CSS Template in Joomla 1.5
Here is my presentation about building a website in Joomla that was given at the Joomla EXPO in Chicago in May of 2008.
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Joomla EXPO in Chicago a Huge Hit with Users
Last Friday, close to 300 Joomla users and developers gathered in Chicago for the first ever JoomlaEXPO, followed on saturday by the hands on classes of Joomla University. The events were a great success with people coming from all over the US, Europe and even as far away as Malaysia…
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Should I use Joomla 1.0 or 1.5
Right now I am sitting on an airport heading the the Chicago Joomla EXPO, and I just *know* someone is going to ask me this question! Pondering over my foo foo Latte from Starbucks, I think I might have actually found the answer. I did a little digging in the…
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ACL is back in Joomla 1.5.3
OK, so its not quite ACL as most people think of it, but a feature that was in 1.0 has found its way back into the 1.5 series. A handy little trick using authors.
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New Joomla.org Dev Blog
If you are a frequent visitor to developer.joomla.org, you’ll know their blog has been offline for a while. I understand there was a security issue with the "Wordpress in Joomla" extension that was being used. The blog is now back up and new and improved.
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Using a Blank or Skeleton Joomla Template
When creating a site, its often easy to get quickly distracted by the colors and templates of the site. When working with a client, the problem can sometimes make a project crawl as discussions revolve around the exact shade of red that’s needed on that header. A powerful way to…
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Joomla and Model, View, Controller
As I have grappled with template over-rides in Joomla 1.5, I have tried to get my head around the MVC concept. I just stumbled across a great post that explained this really well at Coding Horror.
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Joomla 1.5, SEF, Traffic and Getting Naked
Over at Copyblogger, Sonia Simone made a recent post about Getting Naked. No, it wasn’t a college party, but rather the concept of being honest, sometimes painfully so in your blog. Current wisdom among bloggers is that this is a good standard to follow, you’ll see popular bloggers ranging from…
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