A brief explanation of why Lowthian Design Works uses Joomla.
The importance of maintaining control over your domain name, and being able to make changes should they become necessary.
Letter of gratitude to the creators of open source and GPL resources.
Open source content management systems (CMS) are growing in popularity. Why? What gives them an advantage over a traditional web site? Here are a few reasons. First, they give you control over your own site. You don’t need to depend upon a webmaster to maintain your site, nor do you need to rely upon an [...]
A good template provides a solid base for your site. Here are a few pointers that helped me streamline the process.
Security measures for Joomla and other content management websites.
Each Joomla editor has its pros and cons. Though We haven’t tried them all here at LDW, there are three that we use regularly. I will compare how JoomlaFCK, JCE and TinyMCE handle images, text, code and configuration. Images: FCK is my first choice as an image editor. It offers many options the other editors [...]
Fixing the upload button in Joomla 1.5 and options for uploading multiple images.
My brother Kevin is currently pursuing a masters degree at Oregon State University. Right now he’s taking a course on Perl, the programming language. This has gotten him so interested in Linux and web design coding that he’s going to join us in March for a two week internship. Welcome, Kevin, to the big, fun [...]
Linkr is a fantastic * Joomla plugin, (*that I was about to call ‘little),’ which does so much. Once installed, a little button shows up in the bottom of the editor and allows the user to create links to almost anything within the site. File – It can be used to upload a file to [...]
