Tech Stuff (10)
Reviews, philosophies, ideas, best practices, worst practices, and advice by me or for me when it comes to technology and how I use it or it uses me ... depending on the day.
K2, while awesome is complicated and it's got a few things that are annoying. And by annoying I mean the programmers decided what they thought looked good and I don't always agree. Like making the intro text bold. The font enlarger is a cool feature and it helps my 100-year-old godmether build better joomla sites, but it doesn't work on…
By default Joomla shows the date and time in the article. While this is, for the most part, a useful feature there are plenty of times I'd rather not have the time appear. Who needs to know that I was up at 4 AM working on an article? You can globally turn off the date display in the Article Manager…
I noticed when I tried to print an article from one of the contributors at www.shitheadery.com that after clicking on the Print icon the new page comes up right aligned and that the punctuation is a bit screwed up. After a bit of searching it seems that this happens after upgrading Joomla to 1.5.15 and appears to be an error…
Every time I get a special plugin that can add stuff to content, like attachments, mp3, video, etc. using something like this {link}put your stuff in here{/link} and the plug-in picks up the code and places the video, mp3, download in the content of the article. AllVideos Reloaded is a good example of this. Try doing this with the HTML…
Add the following code to you index page Get the official Retweet button to put on your website or weblog. Feel free to alter them and customize them for your site. Copy and paste the following code where you want the widget to be displayed. The button has a brain of its own and will automatically grab the URL of…
By default Joomla has an upload limit of 20 MB. A little slim for the 21st century. You can increase this limit by adding a php.ini file or two on the server. Make sure you put the file in the affected folder, ie the upload folder and the administrator folder as well. You'll also want to put it in the…
By default the date and time show up in articles as Saturday, 14 November 2009 19:02. Personally, I prefer not to let every know that I do most of my writing at 3:00 AM in my pajamas while I'm watching South Park. You'd think this was an easy adjustment to make. You'd think the setting was right were it should…
