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How to integrate Foxycart & Joomla!

Rick — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:58:32 +0000

Foxycart is one cool shopping cart / e-commerce solution. It has a great API, lets you decide how you want to use your store (no bloated CMS comes with it), and is very flexible. This video will show you how to jump in with Foxycart and Joomla!

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Check out Foxycart!

Get the Joomla extensions for Foxycart (as seen in the video)

Joomla, SVN, Cornerstone, & SpringLoops

Rick — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:43:22 +0000

Wow, that title is a mouth full eh? I’ve had some readers ask for an easy way to use SVN with their Joomla projects. Placing your work in a repository is important (even if it’s front-end stuff like template building)! I’ve used a slew of different ways to manage projects and finally have settled into a solution that is comfortable for me: Cornerstone / Terminal & Springloops! Once you do it 2 or three times, repo-ing your Joomla projects will become second nature.

Here’s a quick-and-dirty video (hence some of the errors) on how it’s done…

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Resources:

Limited Coupon!

The guys that made Cornerstone were kind enough to offer a 20% off coupon for the first 10 people to use it from the site! Just enter: BEAUTYINDESIGN0409 on checkout to get the discount!

JOOMLA 1.5 Administration Lesson 4: Overview

Rick — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:29:03 +0000

Lesson 4, in the J! 1.5 admin series, is a brief video overview of the Joomla! administration interface.

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Missed the other lessons?

Lesson One – What is Joomla!?
Lesson Two – The Community
Lesson Three – Installation
Lesson Four – Admin Overview (current page)

JOOMLA 1.5 Administration Lesson 3: Installation

Rick — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:37:36 +0000

The third video of the basic Joomla! 1.5 Admin series covers just how quick and easy it is to install onto your server.

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Installing JOOMLA is a simple task. Just make sure you have your MySQL username and password ready and preferably your FTP username and password ready. If you have those two things you’re ready to go.

Missed the other lessons?

Lesson One – What is Joomla!?
Lesson Two – The Community
Lesson Three – Installation (current page)
Lesson Four – Admin Overview

JOOMLA 1.5 Administration Lesson 2: Community

Rick — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:50:10 +0000

The second video of the basic J! 1.5 Admin series briefly covers the main Joomla! website and how to use the most common, necessary aspects of it.

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Quick links from the video:

Missed the other lessons?

JOOMLA 1.5 Administration Lesson 1: Intro to Joomla

Rick — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:34:08 +0000

Here’s the first video in a series of Basic Joomla Administration videos. This intro to JOOMLA reviews the general features and benefits of using JOOMLA.

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What is JOOMLA?

Joomla is an open-source cms that can be applied to almost anyone’s need

From a Business point of view:

It allows you to manage your website and empower others within your company to contribute, administer, etc.
It provides a platform that is open to almost any specific need

From a Development Point of View:

JOOMLA! Shouldn’t be just viewed as a way to administer content. It provides a framework from which to build any application you may need.

Because of its flexible templating engine, a re-design of your site won’t constitute a complete re-do of the every web page. Simply change the template and a few minor things and you will have a whole new look.

Joomla’s framework includes many features such as built in security, user management, easy extendability…..thus enabling the dev of your site to stay focused on your specific needs / applications.

Joomla has a well documented framework and a very active community

Joomla Features

The JOOMLA! CMS is no rookie in the market! It has been deployed by companies such as Porche Brazil to provide their website backbone. Joomla’s content publishing allows you to quickly create content for websites, control access to your documents, administer user created content, and more.

The modules in Joomla provide easy to move blocked of code. Moving something on your site now doesn’t require you to change every page on your site.

The Joomla components allow you to install mini-applications in your site; thus allowing you to install applications such as e-commerce / shopping carts, photo galleries, form builders, forums, and more!

The user manager provides extendible control over registered and special users. From simple, public access, to control over authors publishers, and administrators

Open Source

A lot of people think “second class” when they hear “open source”. This is probably justifiable depending on what they have used. However, JOOMLA! ranks within the premium products of the Open Source community; showcasing a world-class team of developers and a thriving community.

Building from scratch a system similar to Joomla would cost tens of thousands of dollars. Thus by selecting Joomla as your CMS / Development, you eliminate large chunks of start-up costs and let your budget focus specifically on the immediate need of your site / application.

Joomla is the most popular GPL CMS in the world. Its community can be found in almost every country, it’s system translated in many languages, and can be used to fit almost any need.

Want to see the other lessons?

Lesson One – Introduction (current page)
Lesson Two – The Community
Lesson Three – Installation
Lesson Four – Admin Overview

Quick video on converting a template to Joomla 1.5

Rick — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:14:18 +0000

In converting a static theme to a Joomla template today, I decided to record part of it for preview’s sake. A related tutorial series coming soon will illustrate, in detail, what this video overviews. It’s a great clip to just watch how a portion of it is done!

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This video, of course, is just a quick clip of a Joomla conversion. The related tutorial series that is coming will detail this out much better (as I spent no time trying to explain some things in this video).

The coming series will include things such as: Dealing with template parameters, extending columns, Joomla specific styles, etc.

Oh yeah don’t forget: These videos are in HD, so you can watch in full screen!