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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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Written by: Milos Stankovic

Category: News & Tips

Created: 18 April 2013

There's one old feature of CSS that we usually ignored in the past. This is @media and it's natively added to separate CSS commands regarding the media type, for example, screen or paper. Furthermore, it can be used to execute CSS commands depending on the screen size. In modern web development where the responsivity of the website is not an option, but a necessity, we started to use this old and forgotten feature intensively.

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Written by: Milos Stankovic

Category: News & Tips

Created: 16 March 2013

VirtueMart development team announced a newly redesigned site today (congratulations!) and also the availability of the new VirtueMart component 2.0.20a.

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Written by: Milos Stankovic

Category: News & Tips

Created: 07 March 2013

Even if Microsoft's Internet Explorer is not your favorite browser, you should test your site on it, because many people are still using even older versions of this browser.

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Written by: Milos Stankovic

Category: News & Tips

Created: 07 March 2013

We are witnesses to a flood of responsive websites and templates. All the promises that, if your site uses them, it will look great on all screen sizes and all mobile devices based on iOS (iPad, iPhone, and iPod) and Android (Samsung Galaxy, Google Nexus, etc.). But how actually you can test this. Should you go to your favorite electronic store and buy all those devices?

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Written by: Milos Stankovic

Category: News & Tips

Created: 12 February 2013

Some of our templates have the reflection JavaScript incorporated. It creates a nice reflection effect of the images. This script has problems with the new Internet Explorer IE10 and instead of the reflected image, it shows a duplicate of the image.

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Written by: Milos Stankovic

Category: Joomla Installation

Created: 28 September 2012

One of the coolest new features of Joomla 2.5 is the possibility of the automatic one-click updates. It's not necessary to download and upload the patches by FTP anymore. The update process is completely automatic now. But, not always completely problems free.

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Written by: Milos Stankovic

Category: Joomla Security Tips

Created: 20 September 2012

K2 is probably the most popular Joomla component today. It enables Joomla with two very important features that in our opinion should be incorporated into the core Joomla. Besides the many other features, the two most important features are content tagging and comments on articles. The comment form in your article pages is one of the most often used for spamming. There's no better way for a spammer to get a link from your site than to leave a pointless comment on your article.

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