Wednesday, April 28, 2010
AppBox: A Fast Joomla Template Full of Tools
AppBox is a native Joomla 1.5 template built to visually integrate Joomla and three of its best extensions: K2, Kunena Forum, and the must-have JomSocial.
Not yet familar with K2? K2 is the powerful content component that gives you enormous flexibility to place and display your content differently than your typical "out of the box" Joomla layout style. Learn more about K2 and AppBox.
JS AppBox is a web 2.0 template optimized with raw SEO power and easy style integration with best-of-breed tools to make your site engaging and sticky.
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Our JomSocial 1.6 templates are ready
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New Lessons in Joomlashack's Online Joomla Training University
In the Blogging With Joomla learning module, you'll find two new videos:
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Joomlashack University loves CMS Expo
Not only is CMS Expo a hotbed of the world's leading Joomla experts, developers, and trainers, the conference has expanded to include learning tracks and presentations on a wide range of the world's best open source Content Management Systems.
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Monday, April 26, 2010
How to create abstract colorful background with bokeh effect in Photoshop
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Create a new document (Ctrl N) in Adobe Photoshop with the size 1920px by 1200px (RGB color mode) at a resolution of 72 pixels/inch. Use the Paint Bucket Tool (G) to fill with #010E1F color the new background layer.
To create a fiber background we’ll download Spiderman Pattern from brusheezy.com. Copy the pattern file and paste it into, C:/Adobe/Photoshop/Presets/Patterns.Create a new layer and fill it with black color, click to Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Pattern Overlay. Go to Pattern Picker, and additional Spiderman Pattern can be added by loading them from the Picker’s submenu.
We’ve got the next effect:
Click on the same layer on the bottom part of the Layers panel on Add layer mask icon and choose a Soft Round brush of black color from Brush Tool (B)( set the Opacity to 10% in Options bar)
Use Soft Round brush to paint in the mask to hide a little the document’s edges:
Create a new layer and select again the Soft Round brush
Use the Soft Round brush to paint the central part of the document with the #003173 color
On the next new layer we’ll apply again Soft Round brush to paint more the same part of the picture with the next color - #0F6FBC
Next pass on Adobe Illustrator program and choose here the Ellipse Tool (L) to draw two ellipses of black color.
Using the Direct Selection Tool (A), select both ellipses and apply here the next option: Object>Blend>Blend Options
We’ve got the next result:
Select the ellipses and press CTRL C(Copy). Pass on Adobe Photoshop program after that and press CTRL V (Paste As - Pixels).
Select for this layer CTRL I (Inverse)
Set the Blending mode to Soft Light for this layer and click Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel to select Drop Shadow:
We’ve got the next result:
Click on the same layer on the bottom part of the Layers panel on Add layer mask icon and choose the Soft Round brush (Opacity 20%) of black color
Use Soft Round brush to paint in the mask to hide the ellipses edges.
Create a new layer and select the Airbrush Soft Round brush of white color
Use Airbrush Soft Round brush to draw several small circles by changing the Opacity, Hardness value and the brush’s size
Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel to select Outer Glow
Add Inner Glow
We’ve got the next result:
Create the next new layer and select the Soft Round brush
Draw a spot of the color #FF00FF (set the Opacity to 10% in Options bar)
Use the same Soft Round brush for a new layer to paint the shown part below with the color #4AC1E4
Create a new layer and select the Airbrush Soft Round brush and white color (Opacity 30%)
Use the Airbrush Soft Round brush to represent a spot on the central part of the canvas.
Next choose the Pen Tool (P), set the drawing mode on Shape Layers in Options bar and draw many shapes as shown.
Set Fill to 0% for this layer and click Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel to select Gradient Overlay:
Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box.
We’ve got the next gradient on the shape:
Draw another shape
Set Fill to 0% and go to Layer Style >Gradient Overlay
Open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box.
We’ve got the next effect:
Draw another shape:
Set Fill to 0% and click Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel to select Gradient Overlay:
Open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box.
We’ve got the next result:
Represent another shape using Pen Tool (P)
Set Fill to 0% and go to Layer Style>Gradient Overlay
Open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown.
We’ve got the next result:
Draw another shape:
Set Fill to 0% and click Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel to select Gradient Overlay:
Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box.
We’ve got the next gradient on the shape:
Represent another shape:
Set Fill to 0% in Layers panel, add Layer Style>Gradient Overlay
Open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box.
We’ve got the next result:
Represent another shape on the right part
Set Fill to 0% for this layer and click Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel to select Gradient Overlay:
Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box.
We’ve got the next effect:
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Sunday, April 25, 2010
Slicing up the Status Quo of Joomla Extension Design
While having such choice is an awesome thing for the Joomla end user or site developer, it can at times present some 'formatting' issues. Often times the end user might find themselves out of luck, going back and forth between a template provider and extension developer for support, with each pointing the finger at the other as the cause of a formatting issue.
Perhaps it's time to start slicing up the status quo and approach extension 'design' from a new direction.
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Free video lessons from Joomlashack University
With more than eight hours of professionally produced instructional videos, Joomlashack University provides a wide range of online lessons and courses to teach you Joomla inside out.
To give you a sense of the quality and depth of our more than eight hours of video lessons available in our online training course, we've uploaded two that you can now view for free below.
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Verdant: Colorful, powerful, flexible Joomla template
Built on our customized Joomlshack 960 grid system, Verdant is lightweight, source-ordered, and fast loading for maximum SEO performance. And it's ready to style the outstanding K2 content extension!
Along with our many standard features, we've added a couple new cuts to this multi-faceted gem, including:
Page background color customization- change the color of your page background with a simple hex code in the template parameters
5 Colors and Light and Dark options- make your banner space pop above the fold with this instant change
CSS3 fueled- CSS3 styles that degrade gracefully for older browsers
Full vs Static Width- change the extent of your background color with a simple parameter change
Easy Title Customizations- make your heading stand out with easy-to-use title parameters
Verdant comes ready to style K2, the incredible content extension, and is easily customize with fully commented CSS overrides.
Here's a list of the full Verdant feature set:
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Summer of Code and Joomla 1.6 time again
It's amazing to think it's almost time for another Summer of Code, Google's annual festival of Free and Open Source (FOSS) student software projects.
Joomla has benefited enormously from the GSOC projects over the past five summers. Last fall we reported on a number of innovative features developed for Joomla 1.6 by GSOC students, including advanced front-end editing, multi-site management, and an improved administrator UI template for the Joomla backend. Time will tell if their code makes it into the Joomla 1.6 beta release expected soon.
For GSOC students to work with the Joomla Project, they must have an approved project and mentor. Last year, Joomlashack's own TJ Baker volunteered as a mentor, an experience he says he greatly enjoyed. "Mentoring a GSOC student is an excellent way to give back to Joomla, and to learn from your mentee too!"
Interested in becoming a mentor or a student in the Google Summer of Code this summer? Applications are due by March 12th and you can find all the details on the Joomla Community blog.
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Saturday, April 24, 2010
Tips to Increase link popularity
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New Google Places Announced
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Friday, April 23, 2010
How to Make the Meta Tags for Your Website into an Editable Region in a Dreamweaver Template
your web page's title in search engine results. Templates are used by the Dreamweaver web editor to let you manage multiple pages on
your website in an easy and efficient way. This
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Google SEO
What Do You Do With Top Listings In Google?
With top listing in Google your website may be hit by millions of visitors. If you are not equipped to handle that amount of traffic you may miss out on a lot of leads and enquirers that may get diverted to your competitors. So, top rankings are only a part of the online marketing strategy. It is more important to focus on the traffic at your website, particularly when we run a SEO campaign for you.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
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