How to stop Google indexing your site when it is under construction or maintenance
When you are creating a new website with Joomla or with any other method on a live server, Google might index the half-done pages and give you crappy search results for some time. Best thing is to block google from visiting the site using the good old robots.txt change the content of the robots.txt in […]
Dashed and dotted lines with just one click in Photoshop CS6
Photoshop CS6 has some cool features which are top requests from any designer in the world. Such one is the ability to create dashed and dotted lines very quickly. In this video Adobe Product Manager, Zorana Gee, gives a hint at what’s to come – creating dashed and dotted lines with just one click in Photoshop. […]
How to enable or disable JavaScript support in web browsers
This applies to following browsers: FireFox / Chrome / Internet explorer / Safari / Opera To enable JavaScript in Firefox 2.xx or 3.xx series Open Firefox. On the Tools menu, click Options. Click on the Content icon. Check the box next to Enable JavaScript. Click the Advanced button to open the Advanced JavaScript Options box. Check the boxes under Allow scripts to section […]
Are All Search Engines the Same?
A web search engine or Internet search engine is a software system that is designed to carry out web search, which means to search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a textual web search query. – Wikipedia Search engines work by crawling hundreds of billions of pages using […]
eCommerce mistakes you want to avoid when creating your online business website
Building a business based on an eCommerce website is aways a challenge, so it is important to get basic things corrent first time to succeed in the ever competitive online market. Check if you have covered below points with your ecommerce website development. 1. No proper marketing Plan You can build the best website of […]
The CSS font shorthand rule
When styling fonts with CSS you may be doing this: font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-variant: small-caps; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: verdana,sans-serif And thats a lot of code to type and the CSS file gets big with if you have a lot of font rules! There’s no need though as you can use this CSS […]
Magento : How to replace the default logo in transactional emails
Here is a screenshot of the magento admin panel. Navigate through menu > System > Configuration> Design > Transactional Emails. Select and upload the logo , then set the ALT text. and save. Alt text is important as most email clients block images in email s by default.
Joomla Contact Us Form Issue – PHPMAILER_RECIPIENTS_FAILED
PHPMAILER_RECIPIENTS_FAILED Some times this error occurs because default contact form tries to use users email address as the FROM address. Some hosts doesn’t allow this to stop spam. So we need to change the FROM address to the Joomla configurations FROM address in the line 162 of file components/com_contact/controller.php. After that , for convenience, we […]
Database Error: Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to database
You should check the configuration.php file of your Joomla application and make sure the following lines are correct: var $dbtype = ‘mysql’; var $host = ‘localhost’; var $user = ‘user_name’; var $password = ‘YourPassword’; var $db = ‘database_name’; var $dbprefix = ‘jos_’; You should make sure you are using the correct MySQL username and database […]
Joomla Tip : Creating a new file on a joomla installation
Whenever creating a new file for the Joomla! installation you must avoid using certain text editors such as , WordPad, Word, for example as they unfortunately have a tendency to add unwanted and unnecessary code that may cause problems later on. Always remember to save files in plain text format.
How to add CSS and Javascript to Your Joomla Extension
When creating a quality Joomla extension you will place your styles and javascript codes on seperate files. Then here is the way to add those files in to the joomla extension the proper way. $document = JFactory::getDocument(); $document->addStyleSheet(JURI::root().’mod_name/css/stylesheet.css’); $document->addScript(JURI::root(). ‘mod_name/js/script.js’);
Redirecting non-www to www with .htaccess
If you want to redirect all non www requests to your web site to the www version, all you need to do is add the following code to your .htaccess file: Needless to say that you must be running on apache with mod_rewrite enabled. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L] Redirecting www […]
Why it is better to have a Dedicated IP ?
Every small piece of information transferred on the Internet is passed via an IP address. This address is just like your home address, and like a physical address can contain multiple houses , multiple websites can reside at one IP address. This setup is called shared hosting. A dedicated IP gives you with your own […]
Inserting an Iframe to Joomla article using JCE editor
Have you tried to embed the an iframe in an article using the JCE editor in Joomla ? You may have been frustrated to see your iframe code stripped off when the articles is finally saved. Most of the time iframe is the easiest way to include external content in an webpage such as videos, […]
What is Joomla and Why do I need Joomla for my website?
Almost everyone who wants to publish a web site can benefit from using Joomla! to do it. Take a look at a few of the many good reasons to consider into using Joomla. Don’t forget that it’s FREE, so you can give it a try without risking anything but a little time. Joomla! is a […]
Remove featured products and recently viewed products from Joomla Virtuemart category browse page
go to: component/com_virtuemart/themes/browse/includes edit one of this files depending of what you have selected in layout style. browse_listtable.tpl.php browse_layouttable.tpl.php browse_notables.tpl.php Comment out following lines. echo $ps_product->featuredProducts(true,10,true); echo $recent_products; It should look like this now // echo $ps_product->featuredProducts(true,10,true); // echo $recent_products;