Written by Ryan on June 11, 2008
It is a testiment to my own foul forgetfulness that I am endlessly hunting the Joomla forums for the post that explains how to reset the admin password for Joomla.
Rather, it’s not that I can’t remember how to do it -…
Written by Ryan on May 23, 2008
A while back I whipped up a little script to detect and redirect visitors if they were using an old version of IE. In the comments I went on to say that a more effective/professional way of handling IE users…
Written by Ryan on April 28, 2008
I’ve released a new version of autoMetaDescSEO, fixing many of the problems - including the stupid name - of the first release.
I’ve changed the name to SEOSimple to better reflect the fact that the Joomla 1.5 plugin project has expanded to…
Written by Ryan on March 30, 2008
The latest release of WordPress has just hit the net, offering some significant design changes and a boatload of new features. As mentioned in my previous post on the site upgrade, I’ve been using WordPress 2.5 RC since its release…
Written by Ryan on March 26, 2008
For anyone that’s been to the site previously, you should immediately notice a rather massive change in the site’s design.
When I stitched together the original site back in June last year, I did what I constantly advise clients against -…
Written by Ryan on February 10, 2008
Well, I’ve officially smashed together my first Joomla 1.5 plugin - autoMetaDescSEO - crappy name, I know.
You can get all the details about the plugin at its “official” homepage, but briefly, the plugin simply takes a set chunk of text…
Written by Ryan on February 9, 2008
It can be tough being a graphic designer. Long hours staring at pixels of varying magnitudes; a compulsion to work while under the influence of enough caffeine to make small animals explode; and the pressure of having to come up…
Written by Ryan on February 4, 2008
As someone who makes their living sitting in front of this silicon and liquid crystal box, I guess it’s little surprise that every few months I get itchy and feel the need to redecorate my system a bit.
It was just…
Written by Ryan on January 24, 2008
Well the big news in the open-source CMS community this week is the announcement that Joomla 1.5 is finally stable. It took 2.5 years to get it there, but the wait was well worth it.
Joomla, for those that don’t know,…
Written by Ryan on November 27, 2007
This is a quick and basic “how to” for anyone looking to add multi-language support to their content in Joomla 1.5. Eventually I imagine the folks over at the Joom!Fish project will get around to updating their excellent component, but…