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Friday, 08 June 2007 |
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Effectively, when loaded on a prepared web server, a copy of Joomla (from www.Joomla.org) straightaway provides a working website, a public 'front-end' and an integrated 'back-end' web application to administer, control and preview the website before publishing content. The back-end (typically accessed by website address / administrator) is password controlled, intended for a nominated site administrator(s), accessable using any web browser from any location. User control is part of the administrator's functions, and registered users can be given access rights to submit and edit their own content (text and graphics) by logging in to the front-end web pages. Any number of users, members of your organisation, members of the public, can be allowed (and disallowed) user rights so as to contribute their own content to the Joomla website, with or without administrative editorial control.
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Here we are claiming the true potential of your Joomla website, to be fully developed as a web portal serving interests of your concern long-term. To say that Joomla is a database driven system is trite. To explain that this means Joomla provides an expanding information system is key to burgeoning provision of interactive working with your Joomla website as a central resource. Here is a quote from big business, talking about web portals: 'A point of access to all enterprise information and services to improve business visibility and collaboration'. Translate that to the ways of working of your people and make use of Joomla for all users to access public or personalized web pages presenting dynamic content and working applications and have users contribute to and communicate via your Joomla web portal.
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Friday, 08 June 2007 |
Under banner of ' Business Products', LWP are showcasing work-in-progress, sample web pages for community oriented hobbyist outfit, meant to show rapid development of prototype website fairly typical of service offered by LWP for clients making their web requirements clear.
Shopping Cart
Business Products statement of requirements included a shopping cart with proviso they were not certain of online sales success and needed basic shopping cart without cost. LWP pointed out a bad shopping cart would guarantee poor sales and suggested the VirtueMart shopping cart as probable solution subject to testing against their requirements. This is an ongoing process but at this stage VirtueMart appears good for Business Product's hands-on operations.
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Friday, 08 June 2007 |
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 Work with a Windows NT/2000/XP networked computer, install a copy of Joomla (call it Joomla_1), address your browser to http://localhost/joomla_1/ and you have your Content Management System sitting on a local server for development purposes, and potentially ideal for office intranets.
Here's a PDF eBook from PACKT Publishing: 'Building Websites with Mambo', with section on 'Setting up the Local Server Environment' using XAMPP for Windows. Then there is section 'Installing Mambo', but note: Mambo became Joomla, download from joomla.org. There is no downside here: Install Joomla on your local Windows machine for in-house development work, and seriously assess the implications of Joomla for your office network and your company intranet.
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Friday, 08 June 2007 |
Written by Arnold Punter
Sunday, 19 August 2007
How many times you read stuff on web pages not knowing if it is current information or what. Maybe look at bottom of page, try getting some clue from the copyright notice what year the web page might have been written. On your Joomla website, choice is yours, but can always publish full articles with day and date created shown beneath title, and when modified shown at end of the piece. This is so much better, to have datelined articles on your web pages. |
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Friday, 08 June 2007 |
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Used to be crafting web pages was a black art, guys writing HTML from scratch, using Dreamweaver, going through hoops to make work in browsers, getting things pixel perfect, these guys called webmasters, maybe because they were only ones able to fix their own web pages. Now, look at Death of the Webmaster, and view video with Drupal's honcho Dries Buytaert talking about Web working today, about how there's no place for webmasters but no place for designers nor developers either. |
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PHP For Windows Programmers |
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Friday, 08 June 2007 |
LWP background is Borland Delphi Windows programs, graduating to .NET with C#Builder. From programs for practically all desktops we all went for ASP.NET, pleased with the rapid development of real easy web forms and applications, only to find the PHP guys have got practically all the web servers. Now, the future in web apps visual development using PHP: Delphi for PHP, seems to have PHP purists either for or against [1].
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Friday, 08 June 2007 |
Current (August 2007) release of Joomla 1.5 RC1 has leapt away from Mambo. Joomla 1.5 departs from 1.0 and makes possible fresh start developing Joomla extensions. With this in view, here is preliminary gathering of information for learning creation of components, modules and plug-ins with PHP.
At this stage, for Joomla 1.5, most important resource is ' Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development', author Joseph LeBlanc, PACKT publishing (available in print or PDF eBook, with code and book corrections, downloading available). This book is a hands-on workshop covering a single project (a good restaurants guide). Working through the book to build the project extensions with a fresh installation of Joomla 1.5 should help understanding of all installed extensions as well as getting started with developing new modules, components and plug-ins. |
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Friday, 08 June 2007 |
In Sitepoint newsletter issue 170 Kevin Yank argues 'Tables Still Have a Place in Web Page Layout'. The counter argument is Tables must be replaced by CSS positioning, treated in a jokey way in this presentation from Seybold Seminars. For in-depth treatment there is 'HTML Utopia: Designing without Tables using CSS, 2nd edition' available from Sitepoint and UK book stores. This book covers in detail different layouts, achieving a 3-column 'liquid' layout (resizes to browser width) with full-length columns and a 2-column fixed-width layout...But this book makes it clear: there are tricky problems in designing without tables. Here's an update: Sitepoint newsletter issue 185 is about using CSS tables for layout, how IE8 will support CSS tables and how, in detail, 3-column page layout can be done.
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