Compass Designs

Last week, the Joomla Extensions Team made a welcome change in how they are asking third party developers to post their extensions to extensions.joomla.org.

Previously, you could search for extensions that work with 1.5, but the results would include many (if not most) that only worked in legacy mode.

Well, that's been solved. 

If you are using a template that was designed for 1.0 in 1.5 in legacy mode, you might have found a small problem with table headers disappearing. The issue is caused by slight different XHTML output in 1.5.

So I have been working on a new site and wanted to take advantage of RSS feeds to pull content from other sites. This is a great technique, allowing you to show relevant content without having to write it!

The trouble is, you have no control over this content. If something is there that is too long, it will frequently break the layout of a column, making it grow too big or even worse, drop down in a float drop bug.

If you are familiar with Joomla, you will know that the CMS uses the phrase "read more" when it links to a full article from the intro text.

This read more link is found on millions of Joomla powered websites, but is it the best choice of words?

If you using Joomla 1.5 RC4, the chances are that your site visitors are not getting all the information they need. Prior to RC4, many messages such as when you register "Your account has been created and an activation link has been sent to the e-mail" where output to the mainbody, not any longer.

I was doing some double checking on the menus available to backend administrators for Joomal 1.5. If you are at all like me, you are visual, so I made myself a handy ACL guide as a one page sheet. 

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.