Take it from me, and don’t learn the hard way like I did. There are too many assumptions about how people use Joomla by the developers (I’m referring to 1.0.x here since I have done nothing more than install 1.5 – no testing).  One of the biggest problems I have with it is the RSS [...]

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Ever since I found out about Blueprint CSS framework I have been dying to find out how to effectively use it for Joomla templates, but as yet I have been unable to work on it myself. I know there are a couple of people on the Blueprint side of things that are doing some work [...]

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I have two WordPress Mu sites, both for teachers at the High Schools in Logan County, KY. One, my wife’s school, I had delimited on registration domains to allow only those with appropriate email addresses to use. The other I had not. Yesterday I received a very polite email from a gentleman asking me to [...]

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I call this “Part 1″ because inevitably, as before, I’m going to find something I left out. What I want to do here is go over some of the very first things I do with any Joomla install, and there have been several now. For this example, I will be referring to 1.0.1x versions of [...]

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I just had the urge to make a list of some of the biggest Open Source Content Management Systems (and some that aren’t OS) out there to be use in the PHP/MySQL development arena. Joomla! (probably the largest community overall – the continuation of Mambo) Drupal SilverStripe (Beautiful Admin Interface) CMS Made Simple PHP-fusion Alfresco [...]

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