Rememberthemilk.com – Happiness is staying organised!

My last addition for the evening and another one that has saved me loads of time, plus given me the nudge to stay organised – is Rememberthemilk.com.

Apart from having a really cool name, Rememberthemilk is THE most intuitive web application i have come across to date. The developers have stuck to an extremely basic and user friendly design and using the site is so easy that it really does give you that often needed nudge to keep both your professional and personal lives organised.

There are way to many features for me to list (and i am already late for dinner with friends), so i will leave it up to anyone who is keen on getting things organised to check it out themselves..

Till next time,
Chris

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Assigning templates to forums or galleries.

More often than not when using multiple templates on a site the
templates are variations of one template that begins with cloning the
primary template to a dir of another name.

EG:
1. /templates/MyTemplateName
2. /templates/MyTemplateName_forum
3. /templates/MyTemplateName_gallery

In this case there are 2 options:
1. Clone the whole template dir tree
This
gives a completely independant template but all paths must be altered
in the template index.php to suit the new template name.
2. Clone only index.php and the /css
This
allows all includes to still point to the primary template reducing
redundancy while allowing the 2 most important files to be unique.

I
do the above when I want the possibility of 3 cols everywhere except
the forum and/or the gallery.  Since the needs of a forum are about the
same as a gallery, both need the full width with 1 main column,
creating /templates/MyTemplateName_special is adequate for both. 

A
side note: forums do not work very well when assigned to a different
template and require the “Default” = MyTemplateName_special and the
primary site template be set to “Assigned” = MyTemplateName.  The
reason it needs to be done this way is each forum post is unique and
cannot be part of the Joomla! menu structure, so it will be loaded by the
Default template.  This is a work-around and will require that every
new menu item be assigned to the primary template MyTemplateName as
opposed to the default template MyTemplateName_special  and will be
necessary until Joomla! allows assigning a template to a section or
category rather than only to a menu item.

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Installing into your site’s home directory using Fantastico

Introduction:

Installing Joomla via Fantastico is a huge time saver when you are
working on multiple sites and don’t have time to wait for Joomla’s
install files to upload. I have come across a few posts in the forums
about people having a hard time installing Joomla! into the root
directory of their site. Here is a quick and easy guide to install into
your sites root. Please note, that this is assuming that you do not
have any live sites currently running within your home directory.

Step 1:

Login to Cpanel and click on file manager. Delete the public_html folder and then recreate it.

Step 2:

Close the file manager, click on fantastico & then Joomla (under CMS). Select “New Installation”

to proceed.

Step 3:

Add all your site’s relevant info. Make sure to leave the “Install
in directory” box empty. This will tell the installer that you want
Joomla! installed into your home directory. Thats about it. Complete the
rest of the steps and you’re done

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