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Chronoform - The Great Form Builder component for JOOMLA

This is a great component. Can’t believe I never found this before, just made my life a hell of a lot easier. And best of all it’s free.

Here all steps for how to use this component

1. Download ChronoForms
2. Install Chronoforms
3. Create form code
4. Insert form code
5. Create a menu item to your new form
6. Advanced Features: Email code

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Fireboard Latest Posts Module

Go to this link for download….

http://www.sayafuqaha.com/docman/joomla/view-category.php

How To Install Fckeditor in Joomla / Mambo

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5 Best / Popular Joomla Tutorials

Yesterday, I read a tutorial by Copyblogger, explaining how to write attention-grabbing blog headlines. So excuse today’s exclamation mark and over enthusiasm in the headline - I’m still practising the secret of better blogging (#2)! Before your patience runs out, here’s a list of our favorite Joomla tutorials showing how you can get rid of frustration once and for all (#5) and how you can build a Joomla website you can be proud of (#9):

1. Joomlart.com’s Understanding Joomla / Mambo CSS in 5 minutes. This is good enough to be part of the official documentation. I often give this to designers wanting to learn more about Joomla or clients who want to learn how to modify there own site. Its graphical, its comprehensive, its great.
2. Barrie North’s Joomla Template Tutorial. The original and best guide to building a Joomla template from scratch. Its recently been updated for Joomla 1.5 (zip file). Start knowing nothing about Joomla and
3. JoomlaTutorials.com. This is a new and improved variation on the Flash tutorials format initially produced by Mambodemo.com. JoomlaTutorials is easier to navigate and less cluttered with ads than its predecessor. They have a large series of clearly explained and useful video tutorials.
4. Joe Orr’s How to Install Open-SEF. Not the most comprehensive or most flashy, but perhaps the most important tutorial you can read for your Joomla site. Open-SEF is rapidly becoming such a powerful tool that you really need to look into its features and consider using it on your site.
5. Cory Webb’s HowtoJoomla.net. Not really organized, but this is a great site for browsing through and picking up tips and tricks.

Have we missed any? Contact us via the comments form below and we’ll add them to the list.

Most Top Ten SEO Joomla Tips

1. Install the SEF Patch
2. Install and configure JoomSEF or other SEF URL transalation component for use with Joomla. JoomSEF Latest Version
3. Change the title of Joomla to use title alias - helps for Admin purposes
4. Identify 30-40 keyword phrases using Google Adwords & Yahoo Overture.
5. Optimise frontpage title for your top 3-5 keyword phrases
6. Sprinkle these top keywords through meta tags and content on frontpage
7. divide up the other keywords into 3-4 groups and optimise other pages for these keywords.
8. Unique page titles, meta descriptions, meta keywords, page content.
9. Divide up the page content with appropriate page headings using H1, H2, H3 etc tags
10. Use appropriate page names in JoomSEF. ie: website-design.html & website-development.html

How to add a new module position in your Joomla! 1.0 or 1.5 template

A general tip on how to check the available module positions of your current template. Use a url like this: http://www.example.com/index.php?tp=1

After you’ve created a backup copy of your template folder, go to Template manager \ Site Templates, select your template and click on Edit HTML.
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Joomla - Component: Creating the Database Table

Now, we create a table for preparing place where data will go. For first time, make sure what prefix database you use. You can check on menu Site > Global Configuration > Server. Assuming, that your database prefix is jos_.
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Skeletonz: a Python-based, AJAX open source CMS

Just when you think there are plenty of CMS choices available, we track another one down via eHub: Skeletonz, a simple CMS based on Python and AJAX with a few tricks up its sleeve. Since it’s in a 1.0 beta for now, the only way to get it is through SVN, and you’ll need Python 2.4, MySQL and MySQLdb. Once you’re up and running you’ll be greeted with standard features like a template system, plugins and an intuitive editing system, along with built-in spell
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27 open-source AS3.0 projects that you should explore

Against many other famous, flexlib,degrafa,flux,vegas,carnigorm, easyMVC, pureMVC. Visit theses other projects you will find a good code for as3 stuffs you made.
http://code.google.com/p/skovalyov/
http://code.google.com/p/beni-as3-library
http://code.google.com/p/flexforum
http://code.google.com/p/mediacorelib/
http://code.google.com/p/xpath-as3/ ( Love that one)
http://code.google.com/p/flexstuff/
http://code.google.com/p/danielhai/
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Various PHP Programming Tricks

I’ll be presenting a couple of nice PHP Programming Tricks in this page. You can take a look at the various tricks in these sub pages.

Force a secure HTTP connection
if (!($HTTPS == “on”)) {
header (”Location: https://$SERVER_NAME$php_SELF”);
exit;
}

Get the date
$today = getdate();
$month = $today['month'];
$mday = $today['mday'];
$year = $today['year'];
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