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RokWebify

Daniel — Wed, 09 May 2007 01:31:55 +0000

The resourceful folks over at RocketTheme have released a very nice Web 2.0 looking Joomla template under the GNU/GPL license. It’s called RokWebify. It seems that this is the basis for a series of tutorials they’re releasing on customising their templates.

I used to be a member of their template club (let my membership lapse – unfortunately), and they create awesome templates, as well as great tutorials. This one here is no exception.

You can find the download and the tutorials here. Note that you’ll need Adobe Dreamweaver to follow these tutorials. You could do without it, but it would be much more difficult.

Joomla Templates

Daniel — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:45:04 +0000

If you’re looking for professional looking (non-free) templates, look no further than:

http://www.rockettheme.com/

I just signed up with their template club. It’s great. You can download all of their themes, and you get the base Fireworks PNG files, as well as tutorials on how to customise their themes.

Here are some of the ones I like:

Another place that I saw some nice templates was http://www.pixelsparadise.com/I liked this one from pixelsparadise, but it costs 25 Euros – and I have no use for it at the moment:

Joomla 1.5 Beta

Daniel — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:35:39 +0000

Set up a test install of Joomla 1.5, installed com_migrate on the old site, and migrated the data over. The migration is a headache in it’s current form. None of the menus worked – and the site was basically unusable.

That said, the most important items did migrate over:

Content
Users
Weblinks
Categories

So what I did then was used phpMyAdmin to export jos_content, jos_users, jos_weblinks, jos_categories out. I then removed references to the old URL (as i’m changing the domain the Joomla site sits under) by manually editing the .sql files.

I then created a new installation with sample data included, deleted the standard jos_content, jos_users, jos_weblinks, jos_categories tables, and imported my ‘migrated’ ones.

This got me my site back up and running as a shell.

The software listings in the Joomla Extensions area are deceptive. None of the plugins are compatible with Joomla 1.5. They all assume you’re going to be turning on compatibility mode. There’s no way i’m going to be doing that, as I want a nice, clean, native Joomla 1.5 site.

The way J1.5 handles {mosimage} tags seems to have changed also. There’s no tab on the side of the editor that allows you to specify a list of images for that article. I haven’t really played around with it, but i’m waiting for JoomlaFCK and a good LightThumb plugin to be made available before I even think of migrating fully.

After that, I still need:

Calendar – Currently ExtCalendar.
Guestbook – Currently AKOBook
Document Management – Currently DocMan
To migrate my custom modules over