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East Coast Joomla Day in NYC

Sep 20 2007 - Tagged in:

Finally, Joomla Joomla! Day has arrived on the eastern shores of the United States.  On Saturday, October 13, Joomla Joomla! users from across the western US will come to Google in New York City to share knowledge, meet other Joomla! users, and participate in the Joomlasphere at the free Joomla!Day USA East.

Sample Chapter - Creating a Pure CSS Joomla 1.5 Template

Sep 20 2007 - Tagged in:

A couple of weeks ago, I completed the manuscript of Joomla 1.5: A User's Guide to Building a Joomla! Powered Website and had sent it to the publishers!

I asked subscribers to the Joomla 1.5 Book News what chapter they would like to see available as a sample. After a short poll, the winner was clear:

A 30 minute video introduction to Joomla 1.5

Sep 12 2007 - Tagged in:

If you are curious about the new version of Joomla Joomla (1.5), then you should nip over to itidiots.com and check out the training video they have just published. It walks you through some basic steps in getting a site up and running. 

Joomla Confirmation emails to hotmail and aol

Sep 10 2007 - Tagged in:

I have noticed that alot of confirmation emails to aol and hotmail accounts are getting blocking in spam filters. I suspect there has been a change in the spam filtering with these global providers. To try and offset the direct email I have been getting to activate people's accounts, I added some extra language to the "registration success" text. 

Template Names, Paths and Base URL for 1.5 Joomla Templates

Sep 06 2007 - Tagged in:

I was playing around with 1.5 templates after the release of the 2nd release candidate for Joomla Joomla 1.5. I thought I might share some basic PHP/Joomla Joomla references for  common Joomla template outputs like template names, paths and base URL.

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