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February 23, 2007

Removing A Mambo/Joomla Template

Posted by Sarah King in Mambo / Joomla

Now there’s a misleading title but I had cause to ask a Mambo site to output some info without a template. Sadly it didn’t want to do that - although if you know another method, please leave a comment…

The official method is to call www.mysite.com/index2.php but that still parses the page and adds an alternate stylesheet and header information. It’s good, but not perfect. More »

May 14, 2006

Using a News Feed with Joomla and Mambo

Posted by Sarah King in Mambo / Joomla

It’s easy to add a newsfeed to a Mambo or Joomla website. The normal place for them is on the right hand column of a 3 column layout. In this example we’re doing just that. More »

April 12, 2006

Genuine 404s and Google Verification

Posted by Sarah King in Mambo / Joomla

Google is steadily building up it’s webmaster tools and winning over the hearts of webmasters. As covered in my Google Sitemaps and Verification post the feedback can be very, very useful.

I have run into problems though on Mambo and Joomla sites because they don’t throw true 404s so as far as GoogleBot knows every page is a good page. Google and Googlebot have given webmasters an incentive to change… access to the stats!

To get Mambo and Joomla to throw a 404 you need three things! More »

December 13, 2005

Using DOMIT! RSS

Posted by Sarah King in PHP & Web Development

I’ve worked with DOMIT! because it’s part of the Mambo and Joomla CMS systems so I expected this to be a doddle. Sorry, it wasn’t. There were 2 undefined constants and one code defect which all took time to identify.

There is no doubt that the code in DOMIT! is far more exhaustive than that of Magpie but, really, you don’t need it if all you’re planning to do is parse an RSS onto a webpage. More »

October 13, 2005

Link Vault for Mambo / Joomla

Posted by Sarah King in Mambo / Joomla

I’ve been using Link Vault on this blog and another site for while and the system seems to work well. I hadn’t put it on my hobby site because I hadn’t taken the time to create a module to place it on the site. However the site has a stack of pages so lots of opportunity to increase my vaultage.

I’ve just completed a small module I’ve written for Mambo 4.5.3 and Joomla 1 which will make it easy for users to add Link Vault to their sites. The module replaces Step 2 of the installation instructions… More »

October 12, 2005

Adsense Module for Mambo / Joomla

Posted by Sarah King in Mambo / Joomla

I decided it was about time I added Adsense to the BMX site. I’d written a custom module for my kiwi blogs site and just had to change the script. I decided this could lead to a maintenance headache for me so I’ve turned it into a “proper” module.

In this version you add Google’s script as a parameter, set the alignment (ie center, left, right) and the number of pixels above and below - this is top stop crowding and accidental clicks, et voila!

This module could be used to put any text into the modules section, not just Adsense.

Download mod_g_ads.zip

September 9, 2005

Which CMS should I use?

Posted by Sarah King in PHP & Web Development

Which Content Management System is a common question so I created a page to note my thoughts, but I’ll use this post to record any comments…