Jay Tucker - Web Design Gold Coast

Request a free custom Wordpress / Joomla extension

Jay Tucker — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:20:09 -0700

Hi, Are you looking for that seamingly reeeaaaaalllly simple extension (i.e. plugin, module, component, widget etc) for your Wordpress or Joomla site, but cant find it anywhere! Wish you had the kno-how to make it yourself! Dont know where to turn? Well, im feeling generous today, (and also interested to see what type of extension is actually sought after, beneficial and unheared of in this day and age!), and have decided to run a yearly... Free Custom Plugin Thingy! Where you can request a custom thingy for your CMS...

Automatically create a Joomla category for each new user

Jay Tucker — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:18:02 -0700

A request was made for a plugin for Joomla...

"Everytime a new user is registered / created, a category gets created with username as the title of that category."

Well, I didnt have time to create a plugin, but heres the hack, it should be easy enough to follow - I dont think its the type of feature that will be needed often, so a hack should suffice.

Simple Joomla Shadowbox / Lightbox Module 2.0

Jay Tucker — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:47:44 -0800

This module will display multiple thumbnail images in any module position, when an image is clicked, it will open the full sized image in a shadowbox style lightbox.
Checkout the demo!

You may set:

Folder for images
All shadowbox options including options to use it as a slideshow
Optional Title
Image alignment: Left, Center or Right
Vertical or Horizontal layout of images
A placeholder message when the image is not set.

Nice new features/options include:

Automatic detection and use of thumbnail images
Use a scaled version of the full image if a thumb does not exist
Automatically use the image file name as the title for the shadowbox i.e. My_Car.jpg becomes "My Car"
Custom resizing of thumbnails

To use:

Install module
Select your image folder, there are 2 options either choose a folder from the /images/ folder, or choose a folder in the /images/stories/ folder.
Activate!

Tips:

To use thumbnail images instead of scaling down the full image, simply place an image in the same directory with the same file name, but add the _thumb suffix. I.e. My_Car_thumb.jpg will be used as the thumbnail for My_Car.jpg

Do not use spaces in file names for better compatability across systems, use underscores or hyphens instead.

Click here to download JT Shadowbox 2.0 Beta

This module will display multiple thumbnail images in any module position, when an image is clicked, it will open the full sized image in a shadowbox style lightbox.
Checkout the demo!

You may set:
Folder for images
All shadowbox options including options to use it as a slideshow
Optional Title
Image alignment: Left, Center or Right
A placeholder message when the image is not set.

Nice new features/options include:
Automatic detection and use of thumbnail images
Use a scaled version of the full image if a thumb does not exist
Automatically use the image file name as the title for the shadowbox i.e. My_Car.jpg becomes "My Car"
Custom resizing of thumbnails

To use:
Install module
Select your image folder, there are 2 options either choose a folder from the /images/ folder, or choose a folder in the /images/stories/ folder.
Activate!

Tips:
To use thumbnail images instead of scaling down the full image, simply place an image in the same directory with the same file name, but add the _thumb suffix. I.e. My_Car_thumb.jpg will be used as the thumbnail for My_Car.jpg

Automatic Joomla Categories!

Jay Tucker — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:36:10 -0800

** New V1.2 - Easily add existing sections& Customise category names **
At the push of a button you can create a new category inside your specified sections, named “Month Year” e.g. March 2010 or whatever you like. A great time saver if you have a blog or news style website with lots of sections that all have categories based on the month for example.

Details:

If you have an article based site with alot of sections and categories, it can take a long time to make new categories inside each section manually, instead use "Auto Cats". It can also be used to quickly create new sections, and you have full control over the name format of the categories, (default is Month-Year, but you can customise this)

Thanks

Jay Tucker — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:26:47 -0800

Thank you for your support, it is much appreciated : )

Photoshop Photo Manipulation

Jay Tucker — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:21:59 -0800

Includes: Photoshop CS4 processing! Web ready or print ready manipulation File sharpening Image straightening Smart resizing Turn a good photo into a great one. Just like mastering makes your recordings sharper and cleaner, retouching makes your photos more crisp and attractive. Digital Color Enhancement can make your images look more natural and clear. A really sharp photo makes a better impression. Need to turn a horizontal shot into a vertical one? Our smart resizing can do it while keeping everything in proportion. Straightening a photo creates a more professional appearance.

Includes: * Photoshop CS4 processing! * Web ready or print ready manipulation * File sharpening * Image straightening * Smart resizing Need to rescue a photo? From altering facial features, to removing backgrounds, image repair to special effects, we can do it! Look your very best with photo age regression, removing marks, wrinkles, blemishes, imperfections etc. Remove distracting photo elements from backgrounds, clothing, etc. A number of special effects are available too: solarization, infrared, color tinting, vignetting, antiquing and more.

Photoshop Photo Manipulation - Examples

Before & After

Your photo is the centerpiece of your marketing image. A terrific photo makes it much easier to create striking marketing pieces.
Your photo needs to appeal to both your median demographic (agents, presenters, etc...) and ultimate demographic (concert-goers, CD buyers). Remember your images will be used by presenters in ad/direct mail pieces and will ultimately either attract or repel audience members. It is important to analyze both target markets and plan your shoot carefully. Yep, we do that!
Color can be an important part of your photo. Ultimately you want viewers of your photograph to imagine hearing your music by simply looking at your image. Color can help them do this. Are your musical programs passionate, rhythmic, energetic? Then red may be a good color to include.

Color can also help you connect to various market segments. Hot, bright colors usually appeal to lower-end markets. Deep, rich colors have historically appealed to higher-end markets.

How to convert Worpress to Joomla

Jay Tucker — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:29:49 -0800

Note: This guide is a work in progress, please let me know if you find any problems with it : )

NOTE: If you are here because you want to convert Wordpress to Joomla, you should know that there are solutions available that can convert a Wordpress database to a Joomla database and vice versa, the purpose of this guide is to provide you with an universal means of converting one CMS to another, maybe you want to convert moveable type to wordpress etc. Basically by pulling the required data from one CMS and converting it into a useable format for use with your new CMS's database.

To complete this guide you will need:

Existing Wordpress or other CMS site
Clean setup of Joomla + YVComment (If comments are required, this is a free comments component - read the documentation and setup correctly) Note: even though YVComment was used here, at the time the were not many other solutions available, I would reccomend using JComments now.

This guide will hopefully give you all of the information you require to convert your Wordpress blog to Joomla, it is intended for people that have a decent amount of confidence with a bit of DIY and want to learn a method of converting or migrating content management systems, Wordpress and Joomla are just examples of common systems the same principles of this guide can apply to all other systems, if you do not feel confident we actually provide this as a professional service contact us for more information.

Essentially all I will be doing here is providing you with a step by step guide on how to convert all of your Wordpress blog posts and comments into Joomla articles and comments :) You may wish to do this for a number of reasons, probably because you require a more powerful content managment system. Please link to this guide from your website or blog, but please dont rip it off, this guide is copyright JayTucker.com 2009.
Please note, even though this tutorial has been written for Wordpress to Joomla, the same method could be applied for Joomla to Wordpress, and the same goes for Moveable type, Drupal, or any other CMS conversion/migration.

OK, Where to start?
Well as you should know, when you make a post to your Wordpress blog, the content that you posted along with a few other peices of information are sent to your Wordpress MySQL database.
So lets think about this for a second... The information relating to your blog post is living in a database, obviously you will want the content/post data and the comments that go along with each post, but what else? Well you will also want to have the correct creation dates, correct categories, and other related information!

For the purpose of this guide I have setup 2 subdomains for jaytucker.com, these will be www.wordpress.jaytucker.com and www.joomla.jaytucker.com - I think you can guess which one will be used for which content managment system :)

OK so I am assuming that you have a setup similar to me, e.g. one setup of Wordpress and one setup of Joomla - NOTE: The Joomla setup should idealy be a clean install with no sample data, I will also be assuming that you have access to PHPMyAdmin, PHPMyAdmin is a web based MySQL database administration tool, You dont need to know how to use it, as I will be showing you step by step, and click by click what to do, but you will need PHPMyAdmin, If you dont have it, I would reccomend installing WAMP on your local machine, and making a copy of your Wordpress installation and Database on your local machine, there you can use the PHPMyAdmin that comes with WAMP to complete the task.
Another thing I will be assuming is that all of your blog posts are either 1) uncategorized, or 2) Only assigned to one category. If you have blog posts assigned to multiple categories you will need to first login to Wordpress and move them into only one single category as Joomla doesnt have multiple category support. It is OK though to have articles that are organized into categories and also uncategorized as Joomla has the feature of articles being "uncategorized" too :)

Web Design Links

Jay Tucker — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:02:49 -0800

Here you will find links to friends/sponsors that may be of use to you, feel free to request a link to your site by contacting us.

Logo Design Software - AAA Logo - AAA Logo is a powerful logo maker design software. It allows you to create attractive logos in minutes, print them or put on your website or business card. You can start from one of build-in logo template or design your own using imported clipart or one of more then 2000 logo objects embedded in AAA Logo.c

Waco Web Design BN Design is a TX Web design, graphic design, Flash, database development, and marketing company. Based in Waco, Texas, United States.

Top Dog Web Design: Low cost hosting, affordable design and cheap links.

Portfolio

Jay Tucker — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:17:15 -0700

Looking for examples of my work? You have come to the right place, I have worked on lots of fun and interesting projects, and I am thankful for my great clients.

To see my extensive graphic and web development portfolio please request it here, please let me know if you are interested in seeing a graphic/print portfolio or web portfolio.

Services

Jay Tucker — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:36:08 -0700

Web Design and Development:

No matter what type of design you like the look of, or what type of website you want, we have the skills to provide it! With great turn around times, and full guarantees. Shopping carts, blogs, community / forums, maybe you want to make your own online diary? we have the solution for you. All of the websites we produce are built on cutting edge content management systems, which means you dont have to pay us every time you want to make updates and changes to your site! Saving you time and money.

One thing that gets overlooked too often is cross browser compatibility... what does this mean you may be asking? Well, if you are web savvy you should be using something like Mozilla Firefox to browse the internet, but there are alot of people still using old, outdated and unsecure browsers, these old browsers have a hard time keeping up with todays technologies, and sometimes need extra attention to get them working properly. This is something we take care of so you dont have to stress about it.

Website & Email Hosting:

Looking for reliable and fast hosting? We provide all types of hosting packages, ranging from email only hosting, to fully dedicated and managed servers. All of our hosting packages are "carbon neutral" meaning we are being good to the enviroment too!

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO):

You can have a great looking website, but what good is a great looking website if nobody ever visits it? no good! - Every website we build gets tweaked to perfection so not only the search engines will like you more, but your customers will have a better / easier experience while visiting your site. We provide SEO services to anyone who wants it, not just our clients, so contact us to see how we can help you climb the ranks.

Logo Design, Branding, Graphic Design & Print:

We take pride in our effective and modern designs. We are not happy until you are happy, so if you are looking to get some brand new branding, give us a try! Contact us and ask about our design services. We can take care of all of your graphic design / print needs, if you are looking for some funky new business cards, flyers or corporate branding or even Photoshop photo manipulation we have the tools, experience and contacts to take care of it.

IT and CMS Training

Looking for training on your CMS or other types of IT training? We can help, we provide full training on managing your Joomla, Wordpress and most other CMS dependant websites.

CMS Conversions & Enhancements

Are you fed up of you current CMS or blogging platform? Would you like to get something more modern but dont want to lose all of your content? We can convert almost any system into any system! Meaning if you want to go from Wordpress to Joomla, Joomla to Wordpress, or any other CMS without the risk of losing your content, you can even keep all of your comments! This is a unique service so contact us to find out more!

We have been wokring with the top CMS's for a long time, building plugins, components and modules. If you are looking for a Joomla Implimentor or someone to make modules or modify your existing system Look no further.