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Written by: Milos Stankovic

Category: News & Tips

Created: 02 October 2013

"Ask a Question button" is feature of VirtueMart e-commerce Joomla component which allows your potential customers to contact you prior purchase of a product from your site. One new option regarding this button has been added in VirtueMart 2.0.14, which is useful, but could cause problems until you release it exists.

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Written by: Milos Stankovic

Category: News & Tips

Created: 29 September 2013

Both Joomla and WordPress keep data in MySQL database. That's the reason why you need to create a database on your server prior to installation of Joomla or WordPress. When you are making a new MySQL database, you select its name. What if you, from any reason, decide to change MySQL database name later?

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Written by: Milos Stankovic

Category: News & Tips

Created: 26 September 2013

Your website is not sending emails? You probably experienced this problem already. Popular CMS platforms such as Joomla and WordPress usually rely on PHPMail script that's installed on the server. Is there a better solution? Yes! Please keep reading...

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Written by: Milos Stankovic

Category: News & Tips

Created: 22 September 2013

Twitter has changed API, so you might release that your old widgets are not working anymore. This article explains how to create a simple widget that shows your latest tweets and how to publish them on your Joomla or WordPress site.

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Written by: Milos Stankovic

Category: News & Tips

Created: 20 September 2013

This article explains what's PSD file is and do you really need it when you work with our templates. This is a frequently asked question, so we will try to explain to you what's PSD file using several examples.

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Written by: Milos Stankovic

Category: Joomla Template Tutorial

Created: 14 September 2013

Favicon of your website has a similar function as an icon for programs you're using every day on your computer or for applications you're using on your mobile device. This is something that will help your visitors to remember and to recognize your site. Therefore, you can imagine how important the favicon should be for your website, which is, in this case, your brand, your product, or your virtual office where you meet your clients.

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Written by: Milos Stankovic

Category: News & Tips

Created: 29 August 2013

If you have visited our site recently using your smartphone or tablet, you probably noticed the "responsiveness" of the HotThemes' main site. After several days of re-development, we can finally announce that Hot Themes is following the latest standards in the web design industry.

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Written by: Milos Stankovic

Category: News & Tips

Created: 27 August 2013

After the update of one of my sites to the latest Joomla 3.1.5, the backend of Joomla becomes broken. All the buttons (for Save, Edit, Update...) simply disappeared. I couldn't even save the global configuration edits without editing the configuration.php file manually.

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Written by: Milos Stankovic

Category: Joomla Template Tutorial

Created: 04 July 2013

Since Mart 2012 when we published Hot Blankie, all following Joomla templates are developed using Sparky Framework. This is a piece of software that we are making and tweaking since then. All our experience in the development of Joomla templates is embedded in this framework.

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Written by: Milos Stankovic

Category: News & Tips

Created: 14 May 2013

Content tagging is one of the features that all Joomla users missed for a long time. While it's part of the core in WordPress, in Joomla we had to install additional component to have such feature, such as K2. The wait is over as Joomla 3.1 have content tagging as a part of the core.

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