I have been of opinion that its always best to use standard fonts for webpages and avoid non-standard fonts completely. I couldn’t find a proper way to achieve common look among the various browsers validly. I have used JavaScript font replacement like Cufon, but it didn’t satisfy me as there were issues with color changes on hover and some more issues that I can’t recall. I have known CSS3 font-faces but I found problems with Internet Explorer as it didn’t accept ttf and otf files. Recently something changed my views completely and let me implement non-standard / custom fonts on...

Joomla has a great template system. It allows to allocate spaces of your site and manage easily. But with increasingly complicated websites, you will tend to forget the names on the module positions. Also if you are experimenting with a new template you bought, you would want to know what goes where. If you want to trace module positions on your Joomla site easily, here is a quick and easy trick. Just add a Get URL variable to your URL string - tp=1 So if your address is “http://www.mysite.com/index.php”. make it http://www.mysite.com/index.php?tp=1 Similarly if you want to check the...

Hi, I am writing this post towards people who think lowly of Joomla. If you think Joomla is just a blogging CMS used by few individuals, then let me tell you that’s not right. People love Joomla and use it to make cool sites which not just look good but work great too. They aren’t limited to blogging, prosonal, business, or community; Joomla has a powerful framework and can be used to make just about anything. Joomla however does not give a KISS(Keep it stupid simple) interface so people find it tricky to get started with. Joomla has a well defined logic which separates presentation...

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Joomla has inbuilt error page which is nice but often you would want something which follows the layout of other pages of your site. It is easily achievable by creating error page override within Joomla. The default error page of joomla is : templates/system/error.php this can be overridden by creating a fresh page “error.php” within your template folder. If you template is “bzLayout”, your error page will be in [ Joomla ] / templates / [ template name ] / error.php You can create your own layout and content in this page using PHP and HTML. Find an interesting collection...

Last few days I heard that Google waved goodbye to Google Wave. I studied that Google will although keep it alive till the end of the year but not put more efforts on working/maintaining Google Wave. It is quite a disappointment to see such a nice tool dying. Since recently I have been using it a lot for collaborating on my projects and it was proving really productive to me. However today when I was trying to open my dear Wave it got redirected to the maintenance page : http://wave.google.com/maintenance/index.html Surf’s out, dude. Google Wave is down for maintenance. Time to chillax. Google...

Do you want a style a specific page Joomla differently than the other pages. Instead of making a fresh template there is an easy way to achieve it. The trick is to edit the template and add an id to body tag of your template. An ideal choice is to use menu alias for the body tag id. This way you can easily manage it from the inside of Joomla itself and use the ID in CSS to modify the look of the page. Share with others :

If you have a homepage as blog layout of articles, then you may run into a potential problem. The modules which you have enabled on the main page are also visible on the Full Article Page. This looks specially bad when you have long blocks above the main content on the home page. A user would want more visible area to read full article. It makes more sense to hide those extra modules from there. You can hide particular module positions from Full article view easily. You will need to modify your template and instruct the positions to not render on article view. Open the index.php file of your template....

I love Firefox; most for all the extensibility it gives me. It is one powerful browser which any techie guy cannot do without (everybody tests his website first on Firefox then elsewhere). But with great powers come great responsibility. The browser used to get slower with each extension plugged in it. Not anymore! New Firefox 3.6b is faster than ever. Although it is still in beta stage but the quality of the release is apparent. I have already shifted to the beta release and eagerly waiting for a final release of Firefox 3.6. Some extensions may not be compatible with the beta yet, however the...

Joomap has a serious problem with external links with SEF. It attaches a suffix “&Itemid=##” to the URL in the sitemap page. This addition makes most of the links to fail and return error 404 page not found. Here is a hack to fix the error manually on your website. open your file : components/com_joomap/joomap.html.php around the line 67, there is a default case swicth for node->type. Change it to default: switch(node->id) { case '61' or '64' or '67' : break; // These are itemid of external links. default : $link .= '&Itemid='.$node->id; break; ...