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Joomla Zen Cart Open Source
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Written by conticreative
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Friday, 03 November 2006 |
Many web designers are used to and like to use Macromedia Dreamweaver (DW) to work on their HTML and CSS. The latter in particular is very well supported in DW8 and it allows for very visual work on CSS files.
However, because of the way Joomla templates are structured it is often impossible, or at least unpractical, to work on a Joomla template from within DW in any satisfactory fashion.
I think I might have found a workable solution that with some adjustment allows a designer to customize a Joomla template in fine detail.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 16 January 2007 )
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Joomla Zen Cart Open Source
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Written by conticreative
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Monday, 30 October 2006 |
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When I first discovered Joomla! when it was still Mambo, my first question was: "How the heck am I going to edit the template?"
I think this is pretty much the first question any traditional web designer has when they first try to work with a CMS. It's natural. We are used to a Top down style of designing the page and then inserting the content, Joomla is the opposite. The content is there, but the design, even the excellently designed Ruck Solarflare, is the first thing we must change if we want to make an original website.
I came up with two distinctive systems for dealing with Joomla templates, one uses the excellent Firefox Web Developer plug in and the other is a more traditional approach using Macromedia Dreamweaver as a css editor. Both assume that the web designer reading this article is interested in having some sort of visual feedback when editing CSS files.
This article is about using Firefox and how it can be edit many aspects of a Joomla template. Using the Firefox Web Developer extension is, to me, a bit more laborious and confusing than using Dreamweaver, but it is more immediate and less convoluted at times. Let's get going.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 01 March 2007 )
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Joomla Zen Cart Open Source
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Written by conticreative
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Saturday, 28 October 2006 |
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 184320 bytes) (NOTE: The above is not an actual error - just a subtitle, don't be alarmed)
Working with Joomla! is very exhilarating and there is a tendency, when you work on your site, to want to test all the different modules available. Some of them have some really crappy code, others are simply not compatible with one of the other modules. Inevitably, problems will arise. I had almost finished building my site, when it crashed big time. At that point I decided to install it again from scratch making sure to document and back up every step of the way, a practice I follow religiously when I work for a client but that I sometime ignore when working on my own site. Big mistake.
Everything was going fine until i installed Community Builder, a great app for building communities with Joomla, and I linked it with Joomlaboard, a light weight forum that is actually quite useful and even powerful if not the prettiest out there.
I tested the site and it worked fine until I went for dinner. At my return, trying to view my profile as a user in the front end gave me this error message:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to
allocate 184320 bytes) /-/-/-/-/mod_filename.php
The rest of the page was a blank. I did a quick search in the various forum, starting with joomlopolis, the makers of the Community Builder script for Joomla.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 16 January 2007 )
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Joomla Zen Cart Open Source
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Written by conticreative
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Wednesday, 25 October 2006 |
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Welcome to my first Zen Cart article. In this post I'll try to explain how to manage images in Zen cart and a few tricks I have learned along the way.
By default, Zen Cart displays images in 3 sizes: small thumbnails for the product listing pages, medium for the Product Info page and large, used when the user clicks on the "View Image" link in the product description.
When the user uploads a picture to Zen Cart in the administration interface Zen Cart processes that image when a given page is displayed (Scaling it to the appropriate size for the different views).
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 16 January 2007 )
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