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LIVE Joomla Template Training in Miami & Atlanta

Great news from BiD!  I will be teaching a Joomla template building class, in conjunction with JoomlaTraining.com, April 24th in Miami and June 18th in Atlanta.  The 7 hour class will cover everything you need to know from template tags to advanced techniques with template parameters and overrides.  To ensure good classroom interaction, the module [...]

JOOMLA! Word Association and Semantics

I posted this on the JOOMLA forums but thought it pertinent for the site at well: After doing so many sites for clients over the years, I’ve noticed a trend when going to train them in cms and blogging systems like WordPress and Joomla. Both systems, I feel, have fairly good naming conventions, as related [...]

BiD Relaunched. Diving into a New Year!

I have some exciting news!  Beautyindesign.com is changing it’s face, it’s business model, and it’s content.  A long time has passed since there has been activity on BiD but that’s all changing now!  2009 has some exciting news in store…

Surviving a Server Crash

Due to the remote nature of our employees, my company purchased a mac-mini and Leopard Server to fix our collaboration problems.  I personally was excited about it because I was tired of collaborating through email, shared hosting accounts, etc.  So we bought it, worked on, became reliant on it, and then it crashed.  So what [...]

The XiD CSS Framework (based on Blueprint)

The CSS framework used in most designs we do is based on Blueprint’s CSS framework. Our version is leaned down more by removing the majority of the grid styling while retaining the resets and typography classes.