RocketTheme Magazine

RokSprocket

support@rockettheme.com (Kevin DuCommun) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:00:00 +0000

RokSprocket

RokSprocket is a revolutionary new extension for Joomla 2.5 designed to give you an incredible level of control over how you present your content. Sophisticated content filters, robust layout modes and options, integration with multiple content providers, and a streamlined no-nonsense interface all contribute to a powerful yet user friendly experience from start to finish.

Basic CSS Implementation and Positioning

support@rockettheme.com (Cliff Pfeifer) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:00:00 +0000

Understanding the how CSS works is essential when working on a website. As a forum moderator, I find many questions relating to simple CSS adjustments and how to perform them. In many cases, the answer is a single line of CSS applied in exactly the right spot. While Rocket Theme templates come with a ton of professionally designed CSS that covers all the heavy lifting, customizing a template often requires adding new CSS that is specific to the situation. If you're new to CSS, you may not know where to start. We'll go over some basic CSS concepts that relate to implementation, selectors and positioning concepts.

Joomla’s ACL for Mission Control - Part 2

support@rockettheme.com (Randy Carey) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:00:00 +0000

In part 1 we created role-based groups and access levels to control what admin modules are displayed to any given backend user. In part two we expand our use of the ACL to limit what Joomla extensions can be accessed and used. We accomplish this by establishing a set of groups that represent sibling roles in the backend. This role-based approach, a departure from the old ACL model, leverages the new capabilities of 2.5's ACL.

Advanced Module Manager - Advanced

support@rockettheme.com (Igor Mihaljko) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:00:00 +0000

In the first part of the tutorial about Advanced Module Manager I wrote about basic things that you can do with AMM and how you can extend your module assignments with simple and basic AMM usage.In this more advanced tutorial I will write about some advanced usage of AMM and show you how you can greatly extend the way in which you can publish your modules based on the time of the day, date, week day, users which is viewing your site, users group in which your visitor belongs on the site etc.

Joomla Content Editors

support@rockettheme.com (David Goode) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:00:00 +0000

As a web designer who specializes in using Joomla, I get a lot of inquiries regarding the editing of articles. Joomla comes with a WYSIWYG editor installed, this is called TinyMCE. My personal choice of editor is JCE, which stands for Joomla Content Editor and is free. Having a good editor is one of the key points to having fewer display problems with your website. This article is just a basic guide to using a powerful WYSIWYG editor to help you get best layouts from your content.

Advanced Module Manager - Basics

support@rockettheme.com (Igor Mihaljko) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:00:00 +0000

Working as a forum moderator here I often see members’ posts asking how to publish modules on a page that doesn’t exist in the Joomla menu structure or how to publish modules just on a certain page of a specific extension. Answers to those kinds of questions can be very long and somehow frustrating to the end users since many of those users are often beginners in Joomla world.

Using Magento's Widgets and Static Blocks

support@rockettheme.com (Sam Mahoney) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:00:00 +0000

Magento can be pretty daunting when starting out. There's an awful lot of files to trawl through when hunting down bits of code, and it takes quite a while to get to know how it all works together.

So - when it comes to adding additional content - it would be great if you could avoid worrying about the file structure completely, and add everything through the admin. Luckily, since version 1.4, that's entirely possible, thanks to Magento's Widgets.

Easily Add Social Buttons in Joomla 2.5

support@rockettheme.com (Andy Miller) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:00:00 +0000

Continuing in my developer series, in this article I’ll show you how to quickly and easily add those facebook, twitter and rss buttons to any article. I’ll cover a couple of ways to accomplish this using nothing more than what’s built into Joomla, no specialized plugins needed!

An Introduction to CSS3 Gradients and Multiple Backgrounds

support@rockettheme.com (Peter North) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:00:00 +0000

Background images are usually the largest in any web design, both in terms of dimensions and file size. Some are several hundred pixels across, and they're usually part of every page of the website. If you reduce the image quality of your background imagery too far, you end up with gritty, pixelated backgrounds across your entire site. Conversely, if you upgrade the image quality of your background images even slightly, their file size grows tremendously, causing the designer to pay dearly for sharp backgrounds at the cost of hundreds of kilobytes. Because background images are so large and prominent, designers are frequently fighting this battle between a slow-but-sharp-looking design and a lightweight, fast-loading website with less-than-perfect images.

Creating an event site using Ohanah v2 and a RocketTheme template

support@rockettheme.com (Nick Balestra) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:00:00 +0000

Ohanah app is a Joomla extension that allows you to easily manage your events. Fully compatible with Joomla 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5. Ohanah automagically adapts to RocketTheme templates. I won’t go into much details about the new Ohanah V2, you can learn more about it here: http://app.ohanah.com/tour.

As a RocketTheme Magazine reader you can get the new Ohanah v2 using this special 20% discount coupon: RTMAGAZINE (offer will expire the 31.3.2012)