CSS and Joomla

What is CSS? If you know HTML and CSS, you have a huge advantage when trying to customize your website. Most extensions are fine the way they look when you install them. However, if you want the look of your website to be consistent, you often need to do some CSS tweaking. So if you don't know any CSS, you'd better start learning now. This post is not about learning you the specific techniques of CSS. Rather it is written to give you an overview on how CSS is used in Joomla. This is what Wikipedia has to say about Cascading Style Sheets: "Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application...

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OpenGL: Some paragraphs

From Wikipedia Defn: OpenGL (Open Graphics Library)is a standard specification defining a cross-language, cross-platform API for writing applications that produce 2D and 3D computer graphics. The interface consists of over 250 different function calls which can be used to draw complex three-dimensional scenes from simple primitives. OpenGL was developed by Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) in 1992[3] and is widely used in CAD, virtual reality, scientific visualization, information visualization, and flight simulation. It is also used in video games, where it competes with Direct3D on Microsoft Windows platforms (see OpenGL vs. Direct3D). OpenGL is managed by the non-profit technology consortium Khronos Group. Most Widely Adopted Graphics Standard...

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10 tips for a professional logo design

Designing logos is just like any other type of design work, to be professional you’ll need to pay attention to details. Even a great idea can be ruined by not thinking about simple things, the following tips will help you to keep your concepts safe. 1.Work with vectors This probably sounds obvious to most designers out there, but it isn’t to everybody so I repeat it as often as I can to avoid receiving those damn jpeg logos. Vector formats are the ones that will allow the most variations for your logo. 2.Don’t use more than 2 fonts There is many nice fonts out there and we would all love to use as many as we can. Unfortunately using too many fonts will most of the time result in a loss of coherence. Using two different fonts can be...

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Blueprint CSS Framework and Drupal

Building website templates and themes can be a real pain. Not only do you need to layout your site, setup your columns, and get everything just how you want it you have to check it out in a half dozen different browsers to get it working for everyone out there. That's where the Blueprint CSS Framework comes in. It's designed to take a lot of the legwork out of taking a design and making it work for the web. Now, Ted Serbinski has released a Blueprint CSS starter theme for drupal. This theme combines a bunch of slick drupal theming techniques along with the Blueprint CSS Framework providing for what looks like a great tool to use in theme building. Some of the drupal highlights: Automatically adds META description to many pages. Automatically...

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8 specific ways to avoid some common web design mistakes:

Effective web design goes beyond simple aesthetic appeal. In fact, there are many factors which can contribute to the overall success or failure of a website. Therefore, it is important to have a solid understanding of the common pitfalls you will want to avoid before starting this process. Here are 8 specific ways to avoid some common web design mistakes:    1. Avoid fancy, flashing or too-small fonts. Less is often more in the world of web design and this concept definitely applies to making font selections for your site. Remember to keep your human visitors in mind while making your selections and stick to those that are clear and easy to read.     2.Break content blocks into bite-sized pieces. Internet readers tend to prefer material that is easy to scan over...

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Importance of Colors in Web Site Design

While I was browsing the webpages about "colors on webpages" I was redirected to the website named webdesign.org.I found really a useful article by Vinay Kumar on that page.Heres the article just Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V on the page of WebsiteSupport hoping useful for you. Importance of Colors in Web Site Design Auther:Vinaykumar While designing a web site, importance of color is always overlooked by many web designers. But, keep it in mind that you depend on your company and your company depends on your website and your website truly depends on its color. So, color must be one of your very first concerns at the time of web site design. It's harder to read text on monitor as compare to paper and you will have to choose colors that are going to work best. Through color you can make your visitor feel...

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Formatting Tips To Speed up Your Website

While more and more people are getting access to high speed internet, there are many left on dial up. Be kind to those visitors and do a few, simple things to speed up your webpages. Not only will these tips give you a faster load time, most will also help keep your bandwidth fees low as well!Use CSS For Faster PagesEven if you decide to use tables, CSS can greatly improve your web sites load time! With your styles in an external .css file, the browser can cache all the formatting and stylizing for your pages instead of having to read each and every single tag all over again. Also it cuts down on long drawn out tags and replaces them with smaller class styles instead.Use External ScriptsUse the same script on multiple pages? Switch to an external script. I'm not talking about remotely...

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Install Program(apps) in Linux

Here is the simple way to install the apps and run it in UBUNTU. 1.copy the tar.gz apps on desktop. 2.go to terminal of the ubuntu.for this goto application->accessories->terminal 3. type the command as->sudo -s hit enter 4.if it prompt for password type password and hit enter. 5.then type ->cd Desktop and hit enter 6.then type-> tar xvfz filename.tar.gz -C /opt and hit enter.Here filename is your apps name. 7.now apps will install. Hope this will wo...

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Top 10 Drupal Modules

1. Administration menu " Administration menu module provides a theme-independent administration interface (aka. navigation, back-end) for Drupal. It's a helper for novice Drupal users coming from other CMS, a real time-saver..." 2. Content Construction Kit (CCK) "The Content Construction Kit allows you to add custom fields to nodes using a web browser. Drupal 7 and Fields in Core Most of CCK has moved to core in the Drupal 7 version. The D7 version of CCK contains..." 3. FCKeditor - WYSIWYG HTML editor " WYSIWYG editor This module allows Drupal to replace textarea fields with the FCKeditor - a visual HTML editor, sometimes called WYSIWYG editor. This HTML text editor brings many of the powerful WYSIWYG..." 4. Views "The Views module provides a flexible method for Drupal site designers...

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Drupal Flash Node Module (flashnode) and SWF Tools (swftools)

ite configuration > Flash node settings Creating Flash Content To create Flash content simply go to Create content > Flash In the flash file click on browse, select your video and click on save. You might receive a warning telling us that we don’t have a working player right now, this is because embed media field module allows you to upload the file but it doesn’t have a player, so we need to download  a module called SWFTools(http://drupal.org/project/swftools), after we copy it to the the modules directory, go to Administer > Site configuration and select SWF Tools and save configuration. Now you are ready to post flash video content Original Post: http://www.oshyn.com/_blog/Web_Content_Management/post/Drupal-Flash-Node-Modu...

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Top IT skills that can get you a better job

With the job markets opening up, it is time for all the aspiring techies to be equipped with the right skills that can land them in a job now. Recently, several reports have indicated that the job market is booming again after the slump due to the economic slowdown. Based on inputs from some industry watchers, Siliconindia has come out with the list of the Top IT Skills currently in demand.SAPThe surging demand in the ERP market is expected to increase the adoption of SAP in organizations around the globe. "The demand for SAP market is currently booming and with many companies adopting ERP these days, SAP continues to dominate this space," says Harry CD, Executive Director-Operations at 3G Labs India. Currently, SAP and Oracle are the two major ERP players, however the former is having an...

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How to make joomla site load fast?

Compressing Web pages with GZIP Compression is a quick and efficient way to save your server bandwidth and speed up your website load time. By adding a piece of PHP code to the top of your Joomla generated Web pages, you can instruct the Web server to compress files for transit to your visitors' Web browser. This is especially useful for text-heavy Web pages that are over 100K in size. To Optimize Your Joomla Site with GZIP Compression Go to Extension >>Templates Manager Open your default template and click on Edit Html button Add the following code to the very top and above the DOCTYPE: Done. Note: make sure you have GZIP Page Compression turned on in Joomla Global Configuration>>Server This will decrease website load time significantly for sites that are larger...

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The Importance of Having a Clear Vision and Goal for your Web Site

If you don't know what you are trying to achieve with your web site design then you will probably achieve … nothing! Just as your company (hopefully) has a clear vision of where it wants to be in the future and what it wants to develop into - your web site design also needs to have a clear vision. The vision for your web site design should be aligned with your company’s overall vision. Ask yourself: what is the vision for this web site design? why are we getting a web site? what is the purpose of your web site design? Next, think, what are the goals for this web site design? Be specific. What do you want to achieve through a web site? Think about the following areas: Enquiries Sales Brand development Business efficiency Put specifics on everything. How many enquiries or sales would...

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3 Reasons Not To Put Music On Your Website

Sites with music are neither quick nor convenient. A few years ago they may have been the rage, but today music or voice playing on a website is somewhat dated. It won't work, and chances are you will annoy your customers and they will be relaxing with a competitor where things are more peaceful. Why is noise such a bad idea? We could fill pages, but here are the top three reasons: 1. It will slow down your site. Waiting for your music file to load will add to the daily stress of a website user as opposed to relieve it. 2. It will embarrass and annoy your visitor. Often website users access a website from work. With a normal silent site, one may efficiently and quietly multi-task. But a blast of music (you never know where the volume is set) will alert the guy in the next room or...

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I can't Debug

Here is the source code of  A simple Calculator which I had coded on C programming.I was unable to debug it.So anybody can help me to fix it. http://www.ziddu.com/download/8597214/RaazCalc.txt.html...

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