These sets of steps are for moving a Joomla site from one linux server to another. This is documented mainly for my own reference, and I think it might make some assumptions, but if you’d like to give it a go, feel free.
The notes below walk you through backing up your Joomla site with tar, […]

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Here’s a blog post attempting to make the case of dropping the www. from urls:
The reason for the extra “www” is now a matter of history. It’s old. Deprecated. Outdated. Antiquated. Like websites that only work in Internet Explorer, sites that break when you use the domain alone should be firmly encouraged to join the […]

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Pretty popular blog post dugg up here:
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/blasting-the-myth-of
There is an astonishing amount of disbelief that the users of web pages have learned to scroll and that they do so regularly. Holding on to this disbelief – this myth that users won’t scroll to see anything below the fold – is doing everyone a great disservice, […]

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I was recently trying to figure out how display sublevel menu items with the Joomla menu style set as Flatlist. I found a post here:
http://www.joomlajunkie.com/read-our-blog/p,2/
You can search the page for this single posting:
Oke, I did a little searching and I’ve found a solution for dispaying sublevels when the mainmenu is set to flatlist
U can […]

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A nice post from polishlinux.org outlining some SSH capabilities:
http://polishlinux.org/apps/ssh-tricks/#
SSH (secure shell) is a program enabling secure access to remote filesystems. Not everyone is aware of other powerful SSH capabilities, such as passwordless login, automatic execution of commands on a remote system or even mounting a remote folder using SSH! In this article we’ll cover these […]

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Going to document the installation procedure for the JCal Pro calendar extension for Joomla. This extension is by Anything-Digital.Com, published as free software under the GNU General Public License.
The documentation for JCal Pro is done very nicely. I’ll follow their basic steps, but I’m documenting it here for my own records.
Grab the files and install […]

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I recently had had enough of Joomla’s default content editor reformatting the html source in my static and content items. Joomla’s default editor is TinyMCE, and it’s a pretty capable option for editing. However, I’m often editing the html directly and I needed to make sure that when saved, the html source code was not […]

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Here’s a good post worth looking at. It works the same with smaller outfits too. From the site:
One of the things about being a freelance worker is that it is so free.
This can be a tremendously liberating thing — but it can also be intimidating, and confusing, and difficult. Without someone forcing you to work, […]

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Below is a little CHMOD calculator I found on the Web. I took it because it was just too cute.
You can link to it here:
http://www.ss64.com/bash/chmod.html

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“The first 6 bits of fonts on this list are considered “web-safe” - they’re supported by all major browsers on any platform. The fonts in the following 2 bits come pre-installed on most but not all systems. The fonts in the last 8 bits are mainly used for decorative purposes, and implemented on the Web […]

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