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 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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RussellvilleDental.com is now launched! We’ve moved off of the .net domain now, and using Google Apps and Google Analytics with AdWords we’re really excited about making this one seriously useful (and thus seriously visited) site. Just some notes on what all I’ve been able to accomplish thanks to Google. Google Apps allows me to give [...]

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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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A Basic How-To on Getting It Going First, install XAMPP from ApacheFriends, and make sure you check off MySQL and APACHE as services. The  next step is to make sure there is a  ROOT password.  Go to Start > Run > “cmd”.  Change directory to C:\xampp\mysql\bin and run the following command mysqladmin -u root password [...]

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