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- Ignácio Correia
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didn't thought you would really start from zeroI like this idea so we can discuss a lot of things you know. There are so many features and customization that if you don't discuss then you never know if you are doing the right thing.link to a tutorial regarding specific changes to gantryThe only tutorial that I know are in the gantry website: www.gantry-framework.org/documentation There is where I have learned to customize it.
Also there are a few very cool posts in this forum you need to learn where o find them, make sure that you are present and that you bookmark the posts when you find them, for example I know there is a tutorial to change the menu item to open page direct to rokbox(modal)
That's cool.Like adding a 3 cloumn, mean left, or right sidebar.This is the tutorial to add more position to the template, works for me: www.gantry-framework.org/documentation/j...ing-module-positions
Also Henning has a few cool tutorials himself a think how to change the WIDTH of the entire template, make sure you follow him, his last website is GURU stuff
hmmm wonder why it should not be possible to use different menus based on "per-menu-item-settings"?Yes is does, I think what you mean is that you can customize the Layout per menu item correct? The problem is only this one, when you enter the template settings that first layout you set in the Standards for the entire project, is how the template will act when you don't define custom settings per menu item. Of course you can override them but I don't want to do that if I don't have to. I set up my 1 column default with, then my default 2 column width and that's it, does are my standards.login.php in the features folder how to do that. Heh I'm off to breakfast nowNice I will.
Heh I'm off to breakfast nowMy turn know I need a bucket of coffee. - We are a web design and web development company, we use Joomla as our Heart, Gantry as the Brain and Custom Design as our eyes. Wanna know more about us, check: Design Algarve
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Friends today is time to another update correct? Late today I will talk about Joomla methodology.
A few tricks that will make the difference
About the CCK - we use k2 and FLEXIcontent - We are a web design and web development company, we use Joomla as our Heart, Gantry as the Brain and Custom Design as our eyes. Wanna know more about us, check: Design Algarve
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Title: METHODOLOGY SUFFIX/PREFIX
Created: 9/11/2011
Hello, this is something that have been bothering me in a long time, let see if you agree.
Its been a long time since I started to work with Joomla and there is something bothering me since the start.
The original concept of working with a template is the EASY way of configuring and changing the actual structure of the design or the code. That´s way I came to Joomla, because someone sold me the idea of working with it is easy, in fact after a few years it is easy but until today I had to suffer a lot (ill bet I am not the only one).
What make me come to Rocket was and it steal is because they are the best, not only in design but for me more about methodology and code structure. I think they philosophy is one of the best in the market and make me steak with it.
One of the most important things to me on the HTML part of the projects is STRUCTURE of the html if self. Let me give you 3 examples of code:
1 - Clean
<div><div><ul><li></li></ul></div></div>
2 - Simple
<div id="content"><div><ul class="menu"><li></li></ul></div></div>
3 - Complex(Rocket Style)
<div id="content"><div id="content-2"><ul class="menu level0 parent root"><li class="level1 last-level homepage active"></li></ul></div></div>
As you notice there are 3 ways of working in this community and there is preparing the code so that anyone, I mean anyone can use it. This means that you have to prepare it to be, GENERAL, SPECIFIC and even UNIQUE, I think that this is the only way any module, component. extension or plugin show be written. So we take really careful on selecting any one of this to our portfolio.
What does this mean, they of having an stable website and keeping up with updates is to "change" the code less as possible and don't overwrite if possible.
So we take in consideration the structure of the code, because we never know when we need to be General, Specific or Unique. One of my favorite codes is RokNavMenu, all the possibilities they gave us are just awesome.
So why am I talking about this, because on a daily basis with many websites done and many clients asking for customizations, Joomla been updated, components being updated, ... I want to have the possibility of changing thins fast.
So what is our methodology and this is rule number one, because not all components/modules/extensions and plugins respect the UNIQUE structure we do it manually but the easiest way possible. Who we do it let me explain:
1 - In the menus: Add a suffix to every page you make so each page can have a custom code (hope gantry would do this for me, grab the Title of the menu item and add it to the body class)
2 - In the article: Because we use CCK we add a custom class to each template (at least we have one, hope Gantry would grab the category where the item is inserted and add it as a suffix to the rt-maincontent class)
3 - In the modules: Add a suffix in every module: YES, EVERYONE SINGLE ONE OF THEM, that's the only way of talking to each specific module individual (here i hoped that the Gantry would grab the module Title and inserted as a suffix. But some modules are not prepared for this).
So in resume on a daily basis we create a suffix for everything peace of content and code of our projects, allowing us to customize them individually. I think it is easier to add this on the development process then when you start to customize the css.
Hope also that more components and coders could spend more time allowing their components being easy customized by everyone without touching their code.
What you guys think? - We are a web design and web development company, we use Joomla as our Heart, Gantry as the Brain and Custom Design as our eyes. Wanna know more about us, check: Design Algarve
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- Hanin Abdellaziz
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...hmm...
Just understanding that a lot of joomla and css potential was hiden for me for just to looong.
even if for somebody else you're just speaking about basic stuff, but for me it gives me a new point of view on how to start and how to progress a website...
A good overall clean structure... a must.
Thank you for clearing things up
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Thank you for clearing things up
welcome.
Hope a few developers see this post.....heeee I will find some haters with this
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- Following along, Ignacio. Thanks for your time!
- Kathy
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developing Joomla websites in the sweet, sunny South
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- Ignácio Correia
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Following along, Ignacio. Thanks for your time!Thanks Kathy, please always consider reply, we want to gather as much opinion as possible.
For example thanks to Henning we now have a solution to our login.php
Friends, today we have another update. (sorry I missed Friday I was on my vacation, the only vacation I took all year, hope you understand )
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Title: Joomla CORE problems
Created: 16/11/2011
As you notice by know I am talking about problems until know, that is on purpose, everyone need to know where are they putting themselves in.
The 3 major problems I will address:
1 - Translation
2 - 404
3 - Temporary page
4 - Redirect
5 - RSS
This will be short today.
1 - Translation
IT JUST DOES NOT WORK, sorry guys, but 99% of our sites are multilingual and we struggling with component translations every day. Let me give you an example, the new ROKGALLERY does not work with joomfish, so we are not using them. This is my number 1 hate with Joomla. It does not make sense a USER creates an article one way, then have to change component that has a name of "FISH" and then has to translate. What about USABILITY????????????
So because we don't have a choice we have to use Joomfish. If you are starting a project with 5 languages then you should probably just not use Joomla, am I right or am I right?
2 - 404
I thing if probably the most horrible thing ever. My idea, and a request for all Joomla developers, could anyone please create a MENU ITEM called 404, where we can assign a page? Can anyone do a plug-in for that, is that hard? (I am no developer). Just that a redirect plug-in god dammed. I know they are tricks and components and plugins and etc. But if everyone hates it why then keep it?
3 - Temporary Page
I which the OFFLINE template could have a MODULE POSITION so we could, even offline, assign modules to it, like NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIPTION, you cant do that with the offline template. So anytime you put your site down for maintenance at least you are DOING SOMETHING.
4 - Redirects
Joomla has a few "mandatory" redirects that we cant change them easily (from what I know). For example when you reset a password where is it redirecting? So they are many redirects that we can't control, so you showed know them and learn to change them or to live with them.
5 - RSS
This one is personal Because joomla only work with DESCRIPTION there is no default IMAGE FIELD, because of this people usually change for a CCK or require a EDITOR. this means that the images will be inserted inside the description field, this means that the RSS .XML does not have the <image> field so you cant integrate with Facebook RSS readers or Newsletters software, etc. So you only can have text or use a CCK.
This are few things that you should know very good so when you prepare a project or present a project to the client you know what the problems are.
This ones are daily basis stuff that I don't want to have much trouble change but I need to use them in every project.
(again don't hate me, just trying to put some ideas to test, want to have comments and feed back, so we cant help improve and also improve our selfs.) - We are a web design and web development company, we use Joomla as our Heart, Gantry as the Brain and Custom Design as our eyes. Wanna know more about us, check: Design Algarve
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