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 until then anyone that’s in need of multi-lingual content using Joomla 1.5 is SOL.
My switch from the Joomla 1.0.x series to the new (and much improved) Joomla 1.5 series is still quite recent. I’m planning a post outlining the …
Much the anti-thesis of my “I hate IE” post, I love Firefox. From principle to practice, it just is what a browser should be.
That said, one of the things that’s been bugging me lately about Firefox is that it is just crap on resources. I admit, I’m terrible with having 19 trillion tabs open at the same time, and that’s bound to slow stuff down. But, what I don’t like is that even after those tabs are closed and …
Causality in Web sites is a must these days. People want action, plain and simple. Not only does it add greater functionality for the user, it gives you a whole other dimension for design.
When I visit a site with static buttons and unchanging link styles I get confused (something I’m quite proficient at actually). I’ve grown so accustom to being shown visually that “this is a place I can do something”, it throws me when it’s not there.…
When I was a kid, I loved spring cleaning! In my hometown, spring cleaning meant one thing, and one thing only – free stuff! People would clean out their attics and basements and lay it out on the curb for all to pick through.
I would come home with an endless assortment of random goodies – an old kickstand, goalie pads, a broken armchair – that would sit around the house until the following spring when my mom would put …
The origins of the standard blog front page vary. Some say that the post-after-post-after-post style comes from the ancient Greeks, others say it was the Chinese. One thing’s for certain, it’s old and it’s tired.
Having been a blogger in one shape or another for going on five years now, I’ve started to become disenchanted with the main index layout common to near all blogging platforms. You know the one, a landing page that lists the 5-10 most recent …
No Web 2.0 Web site is complete without a smattering of glass-like buttons. This simple Photoshop tutorial quickly shows you how to make these little buggers in a jiffy. The process is quite simple, but I’ve spelled it out with as much detail as possible for any new-comers to Photoshop. Obviously, if you’ve experience, just scan for gist 
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The desired result.
Step 1: Open a new Photoshop file. You can make it any size you want, but for …
I decided to try out Ricardo Galli Granada’s WordPress Cache (WP-Cache) plugin and see how much speed it actually added to my blogs’ load times.
As the plugin advertises, WordPress is already pretty trim when it comes to MySQL database calls and PHP pagination, so this plugin is really only useful on high activity sites, or sites with really slow servers. My blogs are in the middle, and so neither of these situations really apply. But I tested it anyway.…
Customize Drupal’s Recent Comments block
I’ve been using Drupal quite a lot recently, and one of the things that was bothering me was the Recent Comments block. It’s excellent that Drupal includes this functionality right out of the box, but that it offers no way to template or otherwise customize it (in Drupal 5.x at least) is a pain in the ass.
Specifically I want to display the comment’s author (as a link) and be able to customize the number of recent comments that are …
Tags: blocks, customization, Design, drupal, recent comments, tips, views module