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Mastering Joomla! 1.5 Extension and Framework Development

Written by Błażej Krzymowski

Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:00

The second edition of "Mastering Joomla! 1.5 Extension and Framework Development" book written by Chuck Lanham and James Kennard is invaluable reference guide for PHP developers extending or customizing Joomla! 1.5. By over 500 pages book guides you through description of the topics surrounding Joomla! 1.5 extension development.

Containing a lof of expert advices and tips on many Joomla! programming aspects, illustrations with examples and code examples this book becomes a really great resource when attempting to develop extensions for Joomla! 1.5.

Despite the fact that Joomla 1.6 is not yet ready and will include new features, framework will not be much different. Therefore, the knowledge used in this book will be useful also in Joomla 1.6.

If you already know the basics of creating Joomla! extensions, you will upgrade to the higher level.

Packed full of advices this book explains the structure and design of the Joomla! Framework. It's valuable mainly for intermediate or experienced php developers enabling you to take advantage of the available tools. Helps to discover best practices, design, and coding methods for Joomla! components, modules, plugins, and other extensions. Provides informations about customizing the page output using javascript effects, making use of Web Services within Joomla! and ensuring that your code is secure and free from errors.

Besides of that, you can learn how to easily create user-friendly, and professional extensions taking advantage of the many libraries and utilities provided by the Joomla! framework.

For sure you will be very happy with this addition to your collection. Our programmers, who know the Joomla CMS system very well, acknowledged that the book is very interesting, really recommendable for extensions developers, and above all, could be a cause of all sorts of new ideas.

Refreshed templates at Joomla-Monster template shop

Written by Błażej Krzymowski

Wednesday, 11 August 2010 12:11

As we're constantly developing and number of our extensions is growing up, some of our older templates from Joomla-Monster template shop have been refreshed. Besides that their look was refreshed, they also have new functionalities.

Click on the link below if you want to see all the shiny refreshed templates.
http://www.joomla-monster.com/component/tag/refreshed.html

As you can see templates that were refeshed are easy to recognize as they are marked with a green leaf.

The main changes concern the additional styles for our chosen extensions.

We also enocurage you to watch the demo templates. This will allow you to understand of introduced modyfications and help to find out how your site may look once ready, and what beneficial functionalities can be used.

Don't worry if you have yet bought the previous version of a template. We have prepared the 35% discount for the purchase of a template. All you have to do is contat us at http://www.joomla-monster.com/contact-us/contacts.html and give us your order number to receive one!

Dj-Image-Slider component

Written by Błażej Krzymowski

Wednesday, 11 August 2010 12:02

Being a professional Design Joomla crew, we are constantly creating high quality extensions which make our clients use their websites more efficient.

What is our reason to be proud of? - one of our latest products - Dj-Image-Slider available at extensions.joomla.org has a great interest and is highly rated by users.

As a reminder -The DJ-Image Slider is a non commercial GPL lincensed extension, that allows to display image slides with title and short description linked to any menu item or url address.

We highly recommend that extension to all Joomla users.

For more information, visit our extensions page - http://dj-extensions.com/ where you can also find other useful components and modules.

Joomla-Monster shop with a fresh design

Written by Błażej Krzymowski

Friday, 06 August 2010 10:22

Joomla Monster - Best joomla templates and VirtueMart themes

We invite you to our Joomla-Monster template shop. We are excited to show you our redesigned website.

The old look of the site had to be replaced and finally the new look is ready. Modern, user-friendly and clean. We hope you like it.
The most important change is the look of the frontpage. With the revised colors is very clear and transparent. That improves the graphic look, usability, and overall usability.

We always work hard to offer you the best products. We offer many promotions and we are constantly adding new joomla templates and virtuemart themes. Enjoy!

Design-Joomla Norway

Written by Tomasz Kowalski

Monday, 14 June 2010 08:24

Recently we've opened norwegian branch of Design-Joomla.
Site is available at: www.design-joomla.no
We're sure that this new market will lead us to new contacts.

Mastering Joomla 1.5 Book Review Comming Soon

Written by Tomasz Kowalski

Friday, 11 June 2010 13:37

Recently Packt Publishing contacted us regarding reviewing second edition of "Mastering Joomla! 1.5 Extension and Framework Development" book.
We're happy to check what's new there. The book should arrive soon, and we'll be reviewing this soon.

Short overview:

In-depth guide to programming Joomla! 1.5 Framework
Design and build secure and robust components, modules, and plugins
Customize the document properties, add multilingual capabilities, and provide an interactive user experience
Includes a comprehensive reference to the major areas of Joomla!’s common classes, variables, and constants crucial for creating Joomla! Extensions.

Dj Classifieds Update

Written by Tomasz Kowalski

Thursday, 10 June 2010 13:40

We've just released an updated version of Dj-Classifieds component.
Learn more about the update and installation guide here:
http://dj-extensions.com/announcements/blog

Dj Mutlicolumn Menu update

Written by Tomasz Kowalski

Monday, 17 May 2010 12:17

Our menu module - dj-multicolumn menu was updated.
It fully works now with php >= 5.3.

You can download it here: http://www.design-joomla.eu/downloads/download/modules/dj-multicolumn-menu-1.5.html

Dj-Classifieds extension

Written by Tomasz Kowalski

Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:00

We've recently released the great classifieds extensions available for free.
You can find more about the extension here and here.

We've also started support forum for our extensions available here.
Hope you enjoy :)

Joomla with Flash

Written by Tomasz Kowalski

Monday, 19 April 2010 19:05

The book "Joomla! with Flash" written by Suhreed Sarkar is addressed to people interested in using Flash on the website built on Joomla 1.5.

If you are a Joomla! user who wants to integrate Flash into your website then this book is great resource for you, even if you are new to Joomla!, book can be very useful.

It's great overview with a well structured guide. It is full of examples with attached screenshots showing exemplary configurations. All that confirms that using Flash together with Joomla! is easy and reasonable choice.

The 8 chapters book, answers the question "why use a flash in joomla?" and by introducing the reader to the different types of Flash objects and various tools, obtains complete information on many interesting topics such as:

Creating Flash objects and choosing right tools for working with them.
Creating attractive Flash-based menus.
Generating, displaying and working with specific content in Flash as a part of a page (in an article or as a module) using Flash extensions ( videos, galleries, slideshows, flash maps, logo,banners and headers) .
Improving the overall design by learning to use Flash templates.
Transforming Joomla! site into a streaming media site.
And more.

The book also includes an extensive chapter about troubleshooting.

With a huge collection of tutorials the author covers virtually all the most common uses of Flash in Joomla!. You can benefit from this book as it definitely expands a knowledge. After going through the book, you can transform your existing web site into an new full interactive multimedia site. That book is a good resource that summarizes Flash extensions for Joomla!.

DJ-Catalog Major Update

Written by Tomasz Kowalski

Monday, 15 February 2010 12:55

DJ-Catalog was just updated with fixes, languages and new features.

CHANGES:

Changed: fixed minor issues in component and mod_djfrontpage
Added: Joomfish support. Copy all XML files from/administrator/components/com_djcatalog/translation/ to /administrator/components/com_joomfish/contentelements/
Added: Possibility to change decimal and thoundsand separators (DJ Catalog->Parameters)
Added: SEF Urls ('alias' field in __djcat_items and __djcat_categories table)
Added: Italian language (without front side)
Fixed: lots of bugs & warnings
Fixed: pagination issues in mod_djfrontpage module
Changed: 'Basic' and 'Component' Parameters in 'Menu Manager' are more user friendly.
Changed: Category tree is now replaced by drop-down list (Administrator->Components->DJ Catalog->Items)

LANGUAGES SUPPORTED:

English
Italian
Polish
French
Spanish
German

UPGRADE NOTES:

1. Because of minor changes to table structure, make sure to add 'alias' field into #__djcat_items and #__djcat_categories table in your MySQL database.
You may use following SQL script (replace 'jos' with proper DB prefix if necessary):
--
ALTER TABLE `jos_djcat_items` ADD `alias` VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL AFTER `name`;
ALTER TABLE `jos_djcat_categories` ADD `alias` VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL AFTER `name`;
--

2. Make sure to re-save component parameters and menu items pointing to DjCatalog after upgrade process.

SEF links issue

Written by Tomasz Kowalski

Thursday, 21 January 2010 09:09

Recently one of users of DJ Catalog extension (thanks John!) reported bug regarding 404 errors while using SEF links in Joomla.
The issue appeared when he named the link "Components". All other link worked properly and the one named "components" didn't, check what he discovered:

The answer: It's because, coincidentally, the link was named "Components"!

I suspect when the link is named any iteration of "component", there must be some mixup with the SEF urls and the actual Joomla Components themselves!

I've have verified that simply changing the name of the ALIAS field (to 'ivarscomponents') in the Menu Item causes the error to disappear! My Menu Item itself is still named "Components" and it works fine.

I'm not sure how many other customers besides myself would ever be affected by this, but there it is. You may not even need to look into this.

So essentially problem solved, everything working great and thanks for trying to sort things out for me.

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