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Is it really important to make sure your websites incoming traffic lands on either www or not?  This question bothers many and for some its never even occured to them.  This tutorial outlines how to set your Joomla htaccess file to redirect to one or the other.

Published in Web Developer
Friday, 09 September 2011 18:23

Free Joomla 1.5 theme.

If you like our new Joomla! theme, you can have it!  We're giving away this new Joomla! theme FREE.  Is there a catch?  You have to like Toxzen on facebook or simply pay with a tweet, that's all.  Use the pay with a tweet button to download it.

Published in Blog
Sunday, 26 June 2011 16:33

Hide empty K2 extra fields in Joomla

K2 has been great in customizing content for Joomla.  However adding extra fields to your articles, and then not having values throws content out and displaces things a little.  This tutorial tells you how to fix that in two lines of code!

Published in Web Developer

Well actually this won't make that much of a difference unless you really have huge amounts of CSS.  However it will score you points with Yahoo's YSlow and in the grand scheme of things will add value to your sites performance, maybe get you ranked higher with Google too.  You will still need to take care of your images and HTML still.

Published in Web Developer

How many times have I seen this online: Help my site has been hacked!  Or someone asking the question: is Joomla secure?  Sadly the truth of the matter is security is mostly up to you.  This tutorial will guide you in making choices that will keep your site more secure.

Published in Web Developer
Monday, 30 May 2011 22:37

Formatting K2 attachments style

This simple tutorial shows you how to format the CSS style of your K2 attachments.  K2 is a component for Joomla which is becoming extremely popular.  Attaching multiple files can sometimes make it unreadable.

Published in Web Developer

This Joomla K2 system plugin allows you as a developer to restrict which visiters can register on a site.  If you are creating a website or intranet site with Joomla and K2, and need ONLY users belonging to the corporation or organization to sign up, then this plugin is for you.

Published in Joomla
Tuesday, 25 January 2011 16:55

Removing the border around checboxes in IE

If you've customized your inputs and checkboxes in the CSS of your website, you'll know that Internet Explorer has no mercy and adds some ridiculous border to your checkbox.  There is no CSS to compensate for this error.  This little script however will fix that ...

Published in Web Developer
Friday, 14 January 2011 16:00

Joomla Horizontal RSS Feed Module

The Joomla RSS module for displaying feeds from other sites lacks the ability to display horizontally.  I have tried to create such an effect using CSS but failed.  It seems the only way to do it, is with custom design and by creating a custom module.  Here is a horizontal RSS feed reader for Joomla...

Published in Joomla