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Breaking your Layout in a Joomla Template
So I have been working on a new site and wanted to take advantage of RSS feeds to pull content from other sites. This is a great technique, allowing you to show relevant content without having to write it! The trouble is, you have no control over this content. If…
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Better SEO Titles for Joomla 1.5
Back in October there was a brief discussion about the all important page title tag in Joomla 1.5 and its importance for SEO. Essentially, in 1.0 your page titles would always get appended (unless you had a SEF component) leading to potentially long titles. In 1.5, the behavior was changed…
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The Joomlashack Developer Club
Whether you’e a new or advanced user, if you’re a web developer who is serious about Joomla! you might want to take a moment to consider the Joomlashack Web Developer Club. We’d like to invite you to join us "behind the scenes" to be a part of something great. We…
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Important Update about RC3 and SEF
If you have several Joomla sites you maintain, its worth adding the official Joomla developer blog to your RSS feed collection. In a more recent post, Wilco Jansen described an important change to how SEF is implemented in Joomla 1.5. The main point is that you will now have to…
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Day 4 Duplicate SEF URLs after Migration
As mentioned in my last post, I have now managed to get a couple of blogging extensions installed and have been pruning my menus. I had planned to re-build these after migration to 1.5 to better fit my new Joomla Blog concept. On examining one of the submenus I had…
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Day 4 Installing a 1.5 Template and Joomal Blogging Extensions
So if you have been following along, I now have my old site successfully migrated to Joomal 1.5. Its currently working at www.makeajoomlablog.com. The idea here is to get the site all working as we want it to and then to repoint the DNS to compassdesigns.net for a smooth transition.
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Day 3 1.5 Migrator Problems
OK, so we have ran the migration script in our 1.0.13 site, and have hit a few snags…. There are 3 tables that need to be created for migration of the users, one record in each for each user. It seems because of the large numbers of users we have…
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Day 1 Uploading and Extracting Joomla 1.5 to your Host
As promised in my last blog post, I am going to be doing a series of tutorials about migrating your Joomla site from 1.0.X to 1.5 stable. The site I will be migrating is this one, compassdesigns.net, currently running on 1.0.X!
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Day 2 Creating the Joomla 1.5 Migration Script
The next step in migrating to Joomla 1.5 stable is to create a special migration SQL file, and then use that in the installation process of the new site. As this migration SQL file is used in the last step of installation, we need to prepare it before we start…
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Joomla! Trainings by Barrie North
Want to learn more about Joomla? Need some in-person training? Sign up now! Barrie North, owner of Compass Designs and the author of The Joomla Book – A User’s Guide to Joomla 1.5, will be offering full-day Joomla! training workshops in early 2008. The trainings will be held in the…
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