Just spent ages fiddling around with image manager trying to get it to work. I got various problems; thumbnails not showing, unable to upload files, couldn’t edit images blah blah blah.
Finally realised that my .htaccess was interfering with it. You need to allow full access to the folder plugins/editors/jckeditor/plugins/ImageManager/ for it to work. Seems a bit insecure, but there you go!
My latest website has been live for a few weeks now. The site is for a music venue in Carlisle called The Source.
The Source screenshot
The brief was to design a site that could sell tickets for gigs, and organise events and gigs fairly painlessly, without having to use a developer every time they wanted to change something.
I used a Joomla installation, coupled with Event Booking Pro by Jomdonation. I needed some core tweaks to get the display I wanted, and there are still a couple of things I want to do better, but broadly it has worked really well.
Having recently used Akeeba backup to restore a Joomla site to a new server, I came across a technical problem which I solved, with the help of the TS guys at Rochen.
When I created the new database and it’s user for the new site setup, I used the password generator. This caused the installation to fail, with an error reading “Ajax error” tthen something along the lines of 406 page unacceptable. Apparnetly this is because Joomla only liikes alphanumeric passowrds, so I changed this and it worked! After the installation, I had to manually input the database connection details into the configuration.php file, but after that it worked a dream!
Crown Gallery
www.crowngallery.net This is a website I have designed for a shop that my partner and I are opening in November 2010. It’s a Joomla based site, and the first time I’ve tried using the tableless design you get with the Beez template in Joomla.
Because I wanted to have the site looking pristine, I’ve also had to change some of the coding to get things running right. Putting my new PHP skills to the test!
While working on my current site I wanted to be able to add articles to a menu automatically, without having to individually add them myself. I found this great module; CatArticles
I tried both versions; for me, the 100 version worked best. You simply fill in the id of the category you want displayed, and it creates a menu of links to those articles. If you add another article to the category, then the menu is automatically updated with the new article.
CatArticle surrounds the menu with a div, so styling the menu generated is easy, and you can customise whether you want the category to be linked or not.
A very useful module, which I will certainly be using in other projects.
CMC thumbnail
Ok, so my first website that I designed was for Carlisle Mountaineering Club. It quickly outgrew it’s meagre roots, so I decided to get to grips with Joomla! to expand it. I’ve been ‘getting to grips’ with Joomla ever since, and that was two years ago. It’s a hugely entertaining and interesting piece of software. By now my site had morphed into a huge, bloated beast of a site, with so many add-ons and bits of software. It really needs a good spring clean, but that will have to wait. It still does its job, just not very elegantly. It’s been really useful in that I’ve managed to learn loads about using Joomla from it, and I’ve had lots of opportunities to get into the nuts and bolts of how it works, which has helped my design better sites.
Whilst I’ve developed it I’ve also had to get to grips with XAMPP (the server formerly known as LAMPP) for development and testing of sites on my own computer, and also delved into the murky world of site security, and how not to get hacked.
