Dart Creations Joomla Site Syndication http://www.dart-creations.com Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:19:40 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.dart-creations.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.dart-creations.com Dart Creations Joomla Site Syndication http://www.dart-creations.com/news/latest/dart-creations-joomla-modules-tutorials-youtube-videos-and-lots-of-tips-and-tricks.html DART Creations - Joomla Modules, Tutorials, and lots of Tips and Tricks Welcome to DART Creations, we hope you have a good time browsing our site. Take a look at our great Joomla Modules (index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=22&Itemid=47), lots of Joomla Tutorials (index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=18&Itemid=43), and probably the biggest collection of Joomla Tips and Tricks (index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=23&Itemid=47) out there! We also feature a selection of YouTube Joomla videos (index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=34&Itemid=47). Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:43:57 +0100 http://www.dart-creations.com/joomla/joomla-videos/prevent-joomla-form-spam-using-recaptcha.html Prevent Joomla Contact Form Spam using ReCaptcha Form Spam is somewhat of a problem, and unless you do something against it, is only a matter of when you start getting spam, not if. The following YouTube video shows you a quick and easy way of how to prevent Contact Form Span by creating a Captcha plugin. Captcha is that image of letters / numbers which is difficult for spam bots to read. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:57:17 +0100 http://www.dart-creations.com/joomla/joomla-tips-and-tricks/73-free-mp3-music-player.html #73 - Free Mp3 Music Player So you have a Joomla website, and you want to put in some music / or play some other kind of MP3 on it. One of the ways to do this (and which we have used), is using the XSPF free mp3 player. XSPF is a playlist format which uses XML to define the playlist which you want to play. So how do you do it? 1. Upload the MP3s you want to play to a /Tracks folder on your website. 2. Download the Music Player and upload it to the root directory of your website 3. Define your tracklist playlist based on the tracks you have created. Save the file as playlist.xspf and upload it to the root of your website too. E.g. playlist <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <playlist version="0" xmlns = "http://xspf.org/ns/0/ (http://xspf.org/ns/0/)"> <trackList> <track> <location>http://www.yoursitecom/tracks/Track 02.mp3</location> <annotation>Track 01</annotation> </track> <track> <location>http://www.yoursitecom/tracks/Track 02.mp3</location> <annotation>Track 02</annotation> </track> </trackList> </playlist> 4. Go to Extensions > Module Manager, and create a new Custom HTML module. In the HTML put in the following code to embed the player and... Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:00:22 +0100 http://www.dart-creations.com/joomla/joomla-tutorials/the-most-versatile-joomla-template.html The most versatile Joomla TemplateOk, so you've heard that Joomla is a great free Content Management System, and you wanna give it a shot. If you've been around Joomla for some time, you might know that there are several great template companies out there. However, if you want to change the template with your own colour scheme, and you're not a techie, you might be in a little bit of trouble. Most templates make use of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), which are not so easy to understand and tweak. Enter BiggieSmalls - the most versatile Joomla Template - easy as pie!BiggieSmalls is not that "great" template that you get from other Joomla template companies - where you have something that looks good, but where you hit a brick wall of you want to change the colours. Biggiesmalls is for all of you that rate 0 on a scale of 1 to 10 in CSS skills . Eventually if you know CSS you will customize the template within 10 minutes, if you don't know css at all you will customize it within 20 minutes! And you will not have to edit a single CSS file, because all color, border, width, font-style... Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:44:57 +0100 http://www.dart-creations.com/joomla/joomla-tips-and-tricks/72-creating-a-joomla-submenu.html #72 - Creating a Joomla Submenu One of the most basic tasks in Joomla is the need to create a sub menu item. So many people find this a bit difficult the first time they need to do it, although it then becomes very easy once you've done it the first time. To create a menu with submenu items structure, we create one menu with two levels of Menu Items. Note that we do this whether we want to have everything shown as one large menu or whether we want to create separate menu modules (one parent menu and two child menus). Here are the steps to create the Menu and Menu Items. Create a new Menu in the Menu Manager called "Pets". Add a new Menu Item called "Dogs". For this example, we don't really care what the type of the Menu Items is. For example, you can just create one article called "Pet Menu Test" and then create all of the Menu Items as type Article → Article Layout and point to this article. Add a second Menu Item called "Collies" (again, Menu Type of Article Layout as above). In the Parent Item box, select "Dogs", as shown... Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:27:59 +0100 http://www.dart-creations.com/joomla/joomla-tutorials/quick-joomla-handy-tips.html A nice article by thebestofjoomla.com (http://www.thebestofjoomla.com/) about a few handy tips for Joomla. Most of these have already been described in some form or another in this site, but this article is a nice quick overview of all of them, so its being reproduced here. Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:48:53 +0100 http://www.dart-creations.com/joomla/joomla-tutorials/changing-joomla-messages-part-1-default-joomla-components.html Changing Joomla Messages Part 1 - Default Joomla ComponentsIf you want to change the text messages of the default Joomla Components, you need to find the text you want to change in the following files and change to the message you want. You should read the tutorial accompanying this article: C (joomla/joomla-tutorials/changing-joomla-messages.html)hanging Joomla Messages Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:18:17 +0100