http://www.1guywebdesign.com rambling on about wordpress, joomla, mojoblog and other open source projects Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:31:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The recent Wordpress 2.5 press release from Matt on the state of WordPress 2.5 reads like a Christmas list of epic proportions. My own long wish-list for mojoBlog pales in comparision with what the wordpress developer community has achieved over the last six months. A couple of my favorite new ... http://www.1guywebdesign.com/index.php/2008/04/06/wordpress/the-word-word-press-25-announced As Duvien mentioned over on a8ejoomla I'm in the process of taking up the mantle of developer bottle-washer emeritus. Over the next month we'll/I'll be moving the existing a8ejoomla website and forums to a spot on our site5 hosting server. We will continue to support the a8ejoomla.com namespace until existing urls and ... http://www.1guywebdesign.com/index.php/2008/02/14/a8e/a8ejoomlacom-moves-gets-new-name-buys-cheap-dinnerware just because you can, don't. As a sort of an ongoing "addendum" to one of my favorite articles on common web design mistakes I've compiled a few notes on things we joomla! developers should do, but commonly don't... code for keeps DON'T style html Tables. While there are certainly valid instances where tabular ... http://www.1guywebdesign.com/index.php/2007/12/16/webdev/futureproof-tables-with-css Give misguided visitors a softer landing Successful blogs by their very nature tend to grow and evolve exponentially over time. Adding new categories and topics to your blog structure doesn't pose much of an issue but, what do you do when you need to change the structure and categorical markup but ... http://www.1guywebdesign.com/index.php/2007/07/31/wordpress/custom-404-page-for-wordpress joomlify mojoBlog update While getting ready for the upcoming stable-beta release of the open source version of mojoBlog, we’ve created a new projects website where you can find support, news and related forums on all things mojoBlog. The new support site is called joomlify.com and currently offers up: The mojo-blog: a live-Demo ... http://www.1guywebdesign.com/index.php/2007/07/25/joomla/mojoblog/joomlifycom-support-site-for-mojoblog Just when you think it’s beta-ready… I’ve come to the conclusion that, as long as the core developers from joomla and wordpress continue to implement revisions and upgrades on an almost daily basis, mojoBlog will most likely release as a semi-permanent beta version. Having spent most of the weekend working off a ... http://www.1guywebdesign.com/index.php/2007/07/22/joomla/mojoblog/forever-beta In an increasingly divided open discussion about developer/designer authorship rights and GPL, Joomla! voices it's informal stance on licensing, user and developer rights and, well.. It's looking like 2005 all over again. read more | digg story If you build it they will come The gist of the ongoing discussion (other than ... http://www.1guywebdesign.com/index.php/2007/06/18/joomla/joomla-template-designers-losegain-gpl A number of folks have requested a version of trikea coded up for joomla I've gone ahead and done it for you. It's styled up specifically for a8ejoomla but will work/display almost as intended in joomla (due to the few remaining nested tables in joomla, there's an extra bottom border ... http://www.1guywebdesign.com/index.php/2007/05/08/a8e/spartan-3-column-gpl-template-for-joomla Trikea is a simple, 3 column xhtm-strict layout which I've released to the public under creative commons copyright 3.0 so, feel free to use, modify and share if you wish. You can demo the design here (it's off-site so it'll open in a new browser window) or, scroll down for the ... http://www.1guywebdesign.com/index.php/2007/05/07/webdev/trikea-gpl-website-template I'm usually deep into my browser searchbar (firefox) more times a day than I can comfortably count. I use it to check correct code syntax, look up article references, double check spelling and even plan the dinner menu (yeah, i occasionally cook!) and it's gotten even more research friendly with ... http://www.1guywebdesign.com/index.php/2007/04/17/errata/search-made-simpler