Joomla blog posts from around the web (24/11)

Ninjaboard Announcements, growing team, new releases and a RocketTheme sponsorship

Written by Stian Didriksen

We have exciting news to share today, about what’s coming and what’s happening!
RocketTheme sponsors Ninjaboard development for the next year
This was announced during the JandBeyond 2011 event, you can read a good report on it here.
We are given resources to allow us to give Ninjaboard even more focus and development than we already do, with the end goal of making Ninjaboard a viable solution that can replace phpBB3 on the RocketTheme.com site.

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Making Joomla Idiot Proof (part 1)

Written by  Brian Teeman

Whenever I build a web site I try to do it so that the client will have as little to do or remember as possible and yet there are just some things "they just don't get".
One of the things that always frustrates me is when I re-visit the site after handing it over and it looks terrible. It seems that no matter how good the instructions are or how comprehensive the training is some users just don't listen or don't care.

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Peeking at 1.7

Written by Elin Waring

It’s less than a month until Joomla!  CMS 1.7 is scheduled for release, and developers have been busy writing, testing and committing new features, working on the platform, and fixing bugs. So what are some of those new features? There’s something for everyone, webmasters, developers, and designers. Let’s take a look at a few of them.

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DOCman Secrets: Standard Buttons

Written by Krisstoffer

We are back once again with yet another post in the DOCman Secrets collection which already includes some really great posts such as: Brief Permissions a quick look into the inner wranglings of the DOCman ACL, Email notifications a breakdown of the Notify plugin, Generating Thumbnails a breakdown of the Autothumb plugin and last but by no means least Batch importing a detailed look at Populate.

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Different handling of empty Categories in 1.1.9

Written by Thomas Kahl  

The current release of Virtuemart (1.1.9) handles empty categories different from previous versions: If a category does not contain any products, also subcategories are not shown - even if they contain products. There is a thread in the virtuemart forum discussing this behavior.

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K2 meets JCE 2.0 - love at first... site!

Written by Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Installation instructionsIt goes without saying, start by installing JCE 2.0 RC2 or later. This plugin will not work with JCE 1.5.x.Click on Components, JCE Administration, Install Extensions. use the "Browse" button to pick the plugin's ZIP file, then click on "Install Package".
ConfigurationShould you need to configure the plugin, go to Components, JCE Administration, Profiles. Click the profile you want to configure. Click the "Plugin Parameters" tab on top. From the left hand tabs, click on "Link". Scroll down until you see the "K2 Links for Advaned Link" box. In there, there are three settings.

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The contact page how to make the most of your blind date

Written by Victor Drover

We’ve all been there before. A friend or colleague has set you up and now your staring across at this stranger and wondering what to say.Who are you? Where are you from? What do you do?

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Music to Design to - Thin Red Line

Written by  Anthony Olsen

My Music to Design to selections tend to be a little (and unapologetically) electro-centric but over the last few years I have been trying to widen my scope and one genre that listen to regularly are movie soundtracks. I love watching intense and intelligent movies and love them even more when they have beautiful, intense and sublime soundtracks.

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jFlickr Flickr Module Joomla 1.6 Ready

Written by  Anthony Olsen

jFlickr is our free Joomla jQuery driven Flickr module - and it is now available for Joomla 1.6.  We have also updated the Joomla 1.5 version to fix an issue with jQuery 1.4+ and fancybox so if you are experiencing issues please grab the latest release of both JB Library and jFlickr and everything should be working swimmingly.

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JB Library updated to latest version of jQuery

Written by  Anthony Olsen

Our free jQuery system plugin - JB library - has just been updated to include the latest version of jQuery. jQuery v1.6.1 was released a little over a month ago but you can read about the new goodies and updates in the library on the official jQuery blog.

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Hoverbox Image Gallery for Joomla 1.6

Written by  Anthony Olsen

One of our most neglected Joomla extensions, Hoverbox, has just been recoded from the ground up and is now compatible with Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 1.6.  Hoverbox was one of the extensions I cut my teeth on and I used it as a bit of a tool for learning when I first started working with Joomla.

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Pretty Box Image Gallery now available for Joomla 1.6

Written by  Anthony Olsen

We are gradually moving through all of our Joomla 1.5 Extensions and porting them across to Joomla 1.6 and today I am happy to announce that one of our gallery workhorses - prettyBox - is now available in Joomla 1.6 format.

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Joomla 1.6 Template Version of Cultivate

Written by  Anthony Olsen

I've been working hard at getting our recent Joomla templates ported across to Joomla 1.6 and I am happy to say that the most recent template to make it across to the new version is the Cultivate Joomla Template.  Cultivate was released in January this year and so if you need a quick refresh on what this Joomla template was all about then check the overview page or go straight to the demo - otherwise club members can download the Joomla template and quickstart package from the download page.

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Standardising the way we include jQuery

Written by  Anthony Olsen

In the past we have used our free JB Library jQuery plugin to load the jQuery library for our templates and extensions but the next version of the Zen Grid Framework (due in the next few weeks) changes all of that.  The new version of the framework will be moved from being a collection of files stored in the template folder on your site to a fully fledged Joomla system plugin which means we can incorporate most if not all of the current JB Library functionality into the Framework plugin.

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A K2 lightbox video gallery using Microblog

Written by  Anthony Olsen

Our Microblog Joomla module can now be used to create a lightbox video gallery using your K2 content. The module can now display the video that you specify in the K2 video tab within a colorbox lightbox.

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A sneak peak at the July Joomla Template

Written by  Anthony Olsen

One of the challenges of getting a Joomla template to release stage is deciding how to present the final result. There are often some solid and worthy ideas that get cast aside simply because they don't fit the final "feel" that we are trying to achieve - either that or - we run out of time.

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Element Joomla 1.6 Template now available

Written by  Anthony Olsen

After a small delay I am happy to announce the availability of the Joomla 1.6 template version of our June template release - Element.   If you missed the announcement the other day you can see the Element template features, or view the live demo, read through the docs or just go straight to the Element download area.

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Making our equal heights jQuery script smarter

Written by  Anthony Olsen

If you have used any of our Joomla templates before, you may know that I am a massive fan of using jQuery. One of the things that we use it for is to equalise the height of certain divs so as to make certain design elements more uniform on the page.

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