When I recommended that my customer upgrade from Joomla 1.5 and Mosets Tree to Joomla 2.5 and SobiPro, I had no idea how difficult the directory migration would be. I thought I could export using the Mosets Importer (which I thought was an import/export) and import using the SobiPro CSV importer. Well, that didn’t work out at...
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The latest version of K2 has a built in option to allow you to display related items by tag at the bottom of your K2 item. In my experience, most customers don’t want to bother with tags, and would rather have an automated list of related items by category. I’m sure this would be a simple update to K2, but until this...
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Spring Mountain Motorsports was one of the most difficult websites I have created in a while. Fancy slides, popups, scrollers and galleries are cool, but can create an updating nightmare for the average Joe. My task was to find a balance between features and administrative simplicity. One tool that helped keep all content edits...
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K2 is definitely one of my favorite Joomla! components. It does everything so well that I rarely need to make edits to anything other than template files. The one exception is creating square thumbnails. Most of my customers incapable of creating square thumbnails, so we need the system to be as user friendly as possible. This is a...
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Most of the sites we design have plenty of fancy elements, but we always end up with a simple or unstyled page navigation list. The PSD always looks unique, but the web version falls short of the designers’ expectations. This is because there are no CSS selectors on the arrows, start, prev, next, end or numbers. I probably looked...
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