March 14th, 2009 by Eric
As I posted in a previous blog, the Gentle Beginnings site that I left over a half a year ago was 90% done, but was missing one core feature – the ability to post and read birthing stories. Recently I revisited this site to add the birthing story component, and learned a couple of hard lessons about Joomla! application development. Hopefully by posting this I can shed some light on the less documented portions of Joomla!, and perhaps save someone else precious time. Continue reading ‘Joomla! Applications: The Basics’
July 27th, 2008 by Eric
The Gentle Beginnings web page, http://www.gentlebeginningsnj.com, is available to view now. It has been flushed of *most* of the Joomla content, so by the end no Joomla-related content will be viewable. Continue reading ‘Gentle Beginnings is live, but not quite finished!’
June 26th, 2008 by Eric
I’ve probably covered about 85% of the necessary styles for my template, and now have a screenshot of the progress so far: Continue reading ‘Joomla site progress’
June 19th, 2008 by Eric
I recently was contracted to do a web site for a nurse midwife, who up till now has been using two-page site piggybacked on a friend’s server. It is the most basic of basic sites, and while it has pertinent contact information it has a circa-1996 flavor to it. What she wants is a site on which she may post a bi-monthly newsletter, keep an open guest book of testimonials, and maintain some static pages with updated info from the old site.
Content management is the key for her, and so I decided to try Joomla! 1.5 for this purpose. The 1.0.x branch is starting to look last-gen, so I thought it best to move up a notch. Continue reading ‘The Joomla! 1.5 Experience’