Joomla Developer

Another handy cheat sheet

sirwaffle — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:21:54 +0000

I allways tend to find interesting things whilst working on something. You’ll recognise the feeling when you’re stuck on something and looking for a solution, and then you stumble upon a gem that helps you out.

Well today again i found an interesting cheat sheet to have near: a conversion table between ems, pixels, points and percentages for the font size in css.

It sure can come in handy when messing around with font-sizes in your template’s css.

CSS Cheat sheet

sirwaffle — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:01:42 +0000

Today i accidentally stumbled upon something handy: a CSS Cheat sheet. It has a quick overview of often used CSS items and can come in handy to freshen your memory. The site has a few other cool cheat sheets too: Php, HTML-characters, MySQL, … They might come in handy when designing a website/template.

Joomla vs. Drupal

sirwaffle — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:50:15 +0000

Well the decision finally fell and was in favor of Joomla. The decision to redevelop our department’s website that is. First we intended to try and build the website with Drupal, but that proved to be an enormous ordeal, so we fell back to Joomla.

I don’t know ’bout others but i found Drupal to be very hard to set up a website with. First off the way websites are structured and built-up still seems to escape me, whilst in Joomla i find it to be very intuitive to build up a well-structured website.

Furthermore expanding your website with all kinds of tools and modules is much less user-friendly in Drupal than it is in Joomla. Eg. internationalisation – building a website in several languages which is a requirement for us – is a breeze in Joomla: install Joomfish and you’re in! Also installing an alternate editor or other modules is much easier than in Drupal. The straw that broke the camel’s back for me was the simple fact that it seamed to be impossible to install an alternate editor to be able to edit your content in a fashionable way. I reckon that if something that easy already went wrong, well, what would it be when i got to more complicated stuff?

So Joomla it is. I installed a fresh 1.0.13 and now it’s template-design-time.

First glance at Joomla 1.5: it looks O.K. to me!

sirwaffle — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:41:37 +0000

Yesterday i took Joomla 1.5 RC1 for a quick test-drive, and i must say i’m impressed with what i saw. The installation went smooth and has a slick interface, as does the administration part. I can’t wait for the stable version to be released to start developing new websites in 1.5 and even convert existing 1.0.x websites to 1.5 as i’ve seen there’s the possibility to have an export made in 1.0.x and import it whilst installing 1.5.

Hopefully all the components and modules we currently use come out in a 1.5 version quickly!