| February 2, 2012 | Joomla Tutorials |  Over a year ago, we wrote the Ultimate Mobile Joomla Guide. Back in 2010 we covered two different techniques for making your Joomla site ready for mobile phones. Both of those techniques worked by showing one template to desktops and another to mobile devices.
Since that post a third option has emerged: responsive design. Responsive design means that your one and only template is flexible enough to look good on any device. In this blog post we'll show you some of the very best mobile-ready Joomla templates. Some use the older techniques and some use responsive design. |
| February 2, 2012 | WordPress Tutorials | The phrase "Responsive Web Design" isn't even two years old, but it's hard to read web design articles these days without hearing it mentioned. What is it and how does it impact WordPress? Responsive design means that your theme is flexible enough to look good on any device. There is no need to create a separate theme or even a separate subdomain or site. One theme can look good on a large desktop, your tablet and your mobile phone. In this blog post we'll show you a selection of 10 great responsive WordPress themes to whet your appetite. |
| February 2, 2012 | Drupal Tutorials | It's hard to miss the word "Responsive" when looking at themes on Drupal.org these days. What does it mean? "Responsive" design means that your theme is flexible enough to look good on any device. There is no need to create a separate theme or even a separate subdomain or site. One theme can look good on a large desktop, your tablet and your mobile phone. In this tutorial we're going to use one particular example to show you how Responsive design works with Drupal sites. |
| February 1, 2012 | Joomla Tutorials | Today is our 2nd birthday. Wooohoo! To celebrate, we've got a great present for all our members. 
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| January 25, 2012 | Joomla Tutorials | In our forum we are often asked to help with problems with paths, passwords, data base connections and other basic configuration issues. This is especially true after a migration or move of a site. Most of the fixes for these problems can be made in your configuration.php file. We're going to help you get to know it this very important file. |
| January 24, 2012 | Joomla Tutorials |  Ever since the release of new versions after 1.5, there have been a lot of questions as to how to migrate or upgrade. It is now a year since the latest series of Joomla releases started and we have now reached 2.5 which will be supported by the Joomla project for a long time. It's a great time to upgade.
This guide will take you step-by-step through the general procedure of how to migrate to Joomla 2.5. Please read through all the material as this is not a light undertaking. |
| January 24, 2012 | Joomla Tutorials | 
For this tutorial, we're going to assume you're brand new to this entire idea of installing Joomla and go back to the beginning. The installation procedure for 2.5 is almost the same process it's always been, but we're going to note a new feature and use updated screen shots for you, so we have the most current installation tutorial available. |
| January 24, 2012 | OSTraining News |  Joomla 2.5 was released today and the slogan for it is "Extra Features! Easy Updates!" Both are true.
Updates: If you're using Joomla 1.7, it is a one-click update to 2.5. All your extensions and template will work with the new version. Also, you'll need see an icon when you first login and this will do what WordPress does and warn you and any updates to Joomla or your installed extensions. |
| January 24, 2012 | Joomla Tutorials | The Joomla 1.6 - 2.5 release series has a lot of useful, under-appreciated features. One of them the ability to easily create different layouts for modules. In this tutorial we'll take you through a simple example of how it works. If you install a new Joomla 2.5 site with sample data, you'll see these two menus on the left-hand side. They both have identical styling. |
| January 20, 2012 | Webdesign |  Fireshot is a very useful Firefox plugin that allows you capture screenshots. Not only does Fireshot take the screenshot, but it also allows you to edit the image or email, print and upload it directly to Facebook, Flickr and other sites.
To be able take screenshots with FireShot, you'll need two things: - Mozilla Firefox
- The FireShot addon
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| January 19, 2012 | Joomla Tutorials |  For many years, there was one name that everyone turned to when creating multilingual Joomla sites: Joomfish. However, that changed in 2011.
First, some of the features from Joomfish were incorporated into Joomla 1.6, and so it was possible to make a decent multi-lingual site using only the Joomla core. We have a tutorial on how do that here. Second, a release of Joomfish for the latest version of Joomla has been slow in coming. It's hoped that Joomfish will soon be ready any day now for the latest Joomla. However, for now many people have been using a fork called FaLang. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to use FaLang. When Joomfish becomes available, the instructions will be almost identical. |
| January 19, 2012 | Drupal Tutorials |  There are many different languages available for a Drupal installation, but what if you want to have a site with more than one language? Drupal is up to the task, but it's not a trivial procedure. There are two areas that need translation.
First, you'll need to translate the interface, which includes the button texts, drop down menus, messages and other languages you use to interact with the site. Customizing the interface is fairly simple, and there are language files you can download that will help you make short work of it. Drupal developers often refer to this as localization. Second, you'll need to translate the content. There are some modules that will make this possible, but this does require more effort than translating the interface. |
| January 19, 2012 | WordPress Tutorials |  It is possible to build great multi-lingual sites with WordPress. The WP core is not multi-lingual but there are several plugins available including WPML, xili-language, Polylang, qTranslate, Transposh and Global Translator.
In this tutorial, we're going to explain how those plugins work and help you decide which one is right for your needs. The multilingual plugins fall into at least five distinct types: |
| January 18, 2012 | OSTraining News | 
It's been hard to go online this week and not encounter protests against the SOPA and PIPA laws which the U.S. Congress has been considering. There was a huge amount of pushback from online organizations, and open source projects led the way. Here's how some of the biggest reacted: |
| January 17, 2012 | OSTraining News | 2012 is here, our 2nd birthday is approaching in a couple of weeks. It is time for some thank yous. A lot of thank yous. OSTraining is a new business that has been a long time in making. I used to work full-time as a teacher, doing webdesign in the evenings to pay the bills. From the beginning, the webdesign was powered by open source. My first Mambo ( Joomla ) site was in 2003. Three years later, as open source really started to become popular, the evening job was more profitable than the day job. So I went full-time with Alledia.com, where we did traditional webdesign and SEO services. But the urge to teach remained and over time the teaching side of Alledia grew until in 2010, I split it off into a separate company. Still, at the beginning of 2011, OSTraining was just me and a large team of part-timers. A year later and we have the equivalent of 5 full-time staff members, plus an even larger team of part-time live trainers and video creators. So a big thank you to Rod, Nick, Ed, Thanh, Stacey, Tessa and everyone else who's worked with us this year.  |
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but now we have Joomla 2.5 with Language overrides
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