Month: May 2010

Day 11-Working With Joomla Front Page Manager!

Posted on by Ganesh Sharma

Welcome to the Day 11 of your Joomla Website Setup series. Today I am introducing you to Joomla Front Page Manager. Now, we’ll discuss Front Page Manager. Almost all of the options available for Front Manager are same as those in Article Manager and except the few. So, I’ll be omitting those from this discussion and discuss only the ones which are new.

What is Front Page Manager

The Front Page Manager controls the Content Items that are set to appear in the Front Page (Home Page) of the web site. Individual Content Items are identified for publication here in the Content Item itself where the Show on Front Page check box is checked.

CSS Positioning Tips And Tricks

Posted on by Ganesh Sharma

In my previous article “How To Align Two Boxes using CSS.” I have written how to align the two boxes or “CSS In Php Specially For Joomla.”now am going to write about how to set positions in css and this article is really helpful who found the position problems with css in their templates…. Position:Static…

Five Great Tips For Designing CSS

Posted on by Ganesh Sharma

Avoiding changing the default font size
Try to avoid specifying the body font size. Don’t do this, for example:

body {font-size: 24px;}

People have set their browser’s option to a text size that’s readable for them. We don’t know whether they’ve got a pixel resolution of 1680×1050 or 800×600 pixels. It makes a difference.

•Making Sure Your Borders Show Up

How To Use Ajax Within Joomla! MVC Framework-I

Posted on by Ganesh Sharma

Ajax, which stands for Asynchronous JavaScript, is getting popular day by day because of it’s capabilities of displaying data without refreshing the page. The use of ajax is a headache for the absolute beginner, specifically when we want to use it within Joomla! MVC Framework. The article is the first in the series of how to use ajax within Joomla! MVC Framework.

Google Map in PHP For Absolute Beginners–The Easy Way

Posted on by Ganesh Sharma

Recently I was working on Google Maps for some hotels site. The requirement was to provide Google Maps for every hotel while the latitude and logitudes were given. I found the example given by Google to be somewhat difficult to follow. Once I figured it out on how to display Google Maps when latitude and longitude are given, I decided to write the article as a help to those having problem in dealing with Google Maps initially.