How to Make your Joomla site Accesible for Mobile Browsers

How to Make your Joomla site Accesible for Mobile Browsers

15 June 2009

This is a simple trick that will allow your site content to be viewed by mobile browsers. It's pretty simple using Google's reader and looks something like this. All you need is to do is enable your RSS feed and add a simple snippet in your template's head tag.

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Rewriting a Simple SEF URL in Joomla

Rewriting a Simple SEF URL in Joomla

02 April 2009

Often times you’ll be asked for a link to a specific place on your Joomla site or you might just want a quick way of getting there yourself. This little .htaccess hack will allow you to create “Quick URLs”. There are several ways of achieving this through third party SEF plugins but if you don’t [...]

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Using page class suffixes in Joomla! templates

Using page class suffixes in Joomla! templates

12 March 2009

Using the page class suffix is a good way to define variable elements in your Joomla! template styles. Problem is, there are 114 references to the page class suffix in the core Joomla! views (/tmpl). This means for every class that inherits a page class suffix, a new CSS rule would need to be defined. What [...]

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Using Joomla’s modal box in any template

Using Joomla’s modal box in any template

12 March 2009

You see Joomla’s modal box used in the admin quite a bit. This code is already included in Joomla, so why not use it on the front end as well? It is actually pretty easy to achiev. First Call the necessary CSS & Javascript in your head tag. (add this to your template’s index.ph)

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