Support is our driving force at Cleartext, if customers are happy they spend more and give you a bit of leeway when things go off the rails. It’s for this reason I’m recommending JoomlaPlates as a Joomla template provider.
During a recent ‘free’ web site project I needed a good template and selected one of JoomlaPlates, their php is good and the CSS is well documented. To my dismay there was a small bug in the CSS when displaying some rounded corners in IE7.
I needn’t have worried because with a short time of telling them I had the fixed up CSS in my inbox. Good work, excellent support.
Whilst building a new site using Joomla 1.5 I needed to display an RSS feed icon without text, unfortunately the standard mod_syndicate module doesn’t let me save the ‘Text’ Module Parameter empty, it defaults to ‘Feed Entries’.My fix was to edit the default.php file in /modules/mod_syndicate/tmpl/ and remove the code that display this text. this gives the following result.
When looking around for current methods for 3 column CSS web page layouts I came across this page on a site which has a great collection of valid CSS layouts.
From the authors page…
“IE7 is a JavaScript library to make MSIE behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6.” Read more…
And while I was looking for Flex related content I found Slingshot another excellent idea for deploying desktop apps. This one is a bit like Google Gears allowing browers apps to run offline.
I was asked about Flex today and surprisingly I remembered that it’s a cool OS and browser independent development platform, using ActionScript and Flash, I think. Anyway, if you’re looking for a new way to deliver apps that will work and look the same on different OS’ then Flex is worth a look.
There’s always a hidden issue with IT systems. As great as Ruby on Rail is at producing web applications in record time I’m finding that setting up a production server is rather more challenging.
I’ve spent a lot of time with Rails and Hobo over the last few weeks and I may have found a development system that i can get to grips with without having to spend the nest two years fully immersed in code… Read more…
Got very sidetracked to day, I started out working on my Ruby on Rails skilling up project and got into Rails plugins, which led me to the forge, which led me to RadiantCMS and then to Terralien where I considered paying someone to build my project, then remembered that needed money, probably large amounts of it. So I went surfing the Rails ‘o sphere… well anywhere that looked interesting. Â
Well, I’ve made good progress, but stuck when arriving at p182. Part III: real Rails. Listing 9-2 on the next page has a ‘require_gem…’ at the start of the page and try as I may i can’t get past this. Read more…
Well, I discovered that Aptana have taken over RadRails and downloaded their IDE. After a few hours messing around and using MacPort to install Ruby, Gems and more I’ve got to the stage where I can run the first example in the ‘Dummies’ book. I got distracted installing Locomotive and trying to point the IDE at Locomotives libraries, that was a mistake. One last issue to resolve, which is getting the IDE to run the Brick or Mongrel servers, but until then I can run the apps from a terminal session…
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