Posted by: Søren
in Technology on May 20, 2011
Last week I was playing around with Facebook and Twitter login on my Joomla website. I managed to get it up and running with both features integrated, but I have to admit that it was kind of buggy since I was only able to login successfully every second time. So I decided to drop the Facebook login and went for the Twitter login only. And it works flawlessly.
So basically, if you need a Twitter login for your Joomla website I can recommend the MiniJomTweet component. The component includes a sign in module and an authentication plugin and all you need to do is to get an API key from Twitter. And the installation is easy.
Posted by: Søren
in CMS on Apr 30, 2011
The last couple of months I got a lot of spam comments on my website which is absolutely annoying. To avoid spam comments I decided to require that visitors need to login before the can comment on blog posts.
In Joomla you can choose to let your visitors login with the standard login features which normally function very well. But after some research I found a Joomla component named ITPConnect which integrates Facebook's connection with Joomla.
Posted by: Søren
in This website on Jan 09, 2011
No one doubt the fact that mobile devices (especially smartphones) will play a dominating and leading role in consumer behavior in the coming years. An example. Every second sold mobile phone in Denmark is a smartphone. An online trend which the majority of the Danish media companies like Politiken, Berlingske Media, Børsen etc.have been making use of years ago. They have all optimized their websites for mobile devices, iPhone and recently iPad. And in a short while we will see not only iPhone apps, but also iPad apps coming out.
Personally I browse a lot of websites from my sofa on my iPhone and if possibly I try to bookmark every iPhone optimized site I find interesting. As it is today I have not found a ton of iPhone optimized websites. But it will change quickly according to the consumers mobile habits. Making your website look good on mobile platforms will be more important each day and in 2011 we will see a lot more mobile websites.
Posted by: Søren
in CMS on Nov 22, 2010
This could tend to be a little nerdy. For quite some time I have been looking for a drag n drop plugin for Joomla! CMS backend. And now I found it. This plugin allows you to drag table row items into the order you would like, then just click the save icon and your items are ordered. Cool!
Read more about the drag n drop plugin for Joomla! here and here. If you registrer on the developers website you can downlaod the plugin for free.
Posted by: Søren
in CMS on May 24, 2010
Joomla! CMS has in many ways been outperformed by Wordpress and Drupal when it comes to the amount of minimal and aesthetic websites found on the internet. Joomla! CMS is mainly used for communities and website portals - where the website works as an information portal whereas you see many Wordpress based websites in categories like fashion, design and lifestyle magasins and blogs. I believe Joomla! has more functionality and outperforms Drupal if we are talking an user-friendly backend and easy learning curve, but when it comes to beautiful front end and design Joomla! seems to be the loser - because there is a not a lot of beautiful Joomla! based websites out there.
Designers and people working with aesthetic normally choose another platform than Joomla!. And I guess it is because you experience so many bad designed and "more is more" Joomla! websites out there. Keeping things simple and clean is not a first priority for many Joomla! programmers and designers - which is of course a big mistake.
Posted by: Søren
in CMS on Apr 03, 2010
During the last couple of days I worked on a fresh new look for my website. Again and again. I guess it is difficult to see big changes here, but actually I am quite happy with the result - because the new look is based on a completely new template framework named Zen Grid developed by Joomlabamboo. The Zen Grid template gives you a great flexibility and functionality when you work with Joomla and design websites.
The 960 CSS Grid framework Zen Grid is an elegant, easy to use template scaffold that gives you complete control over all aspects of layout and styling. Zen grid is the perfect starting point for developing your own Joomla template. And thats what I did really. The template gives you completely freedom to make what you want and like. Below I posted a picture of the Zen Grid template as it came - and a picture of my website - the result.
Posted by: Søren
in CMS on Jan 11, 2010
Choosing and finding a new CMS can, without the necessary research, be like finding a needle in a haystack. The need for CMS has, over the last decade, increased rapidly. And even for an expert it can be quite a challenge to choose the right one, because there are so many CMS' in the year of 2010.
Open Source CMS Vs. License CMS:
Posted by: Søren
in Technology on Aug 27, 2009
Yesterday I finally managed to get my website running SEO friendly URLs. At first I thought it was an impossible mission since I could not figured it out. At first I installed the Joomla component "sh404SEF" which rewrites Joomla URL to a more user-friendly format (SEF URL or URL rewriting): ornholt.dk/index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=69&id=34... becomes ornholt.dk/about). At first it did not work, but after a helpful one.com employee helped me rewrite my .htaccess file I did succed. Sweet. Now my URLs are just a little bit shorter (and have a lot more decent look). Great!
Learn more about the Joomla component "sh404SEF" which rewrites Joomla URL to a more user-friendly format in this YouTube tutorial:
Posted by: Søren
in CMS on Aug 03, 2009
During the last week I worked on a fresh new look for my website. Again. Being very much inspired by the lovely gray weather in Denmark the site is kept in gray/black/white colors with blue links on a white background. Less is more style I would call it. The frontpage is again showing a visual menu and the pictures works as menu links. Because of the many pictures on the frontpage I added a smooth preloader. Cool and functional I would say. Furthermore I implemented a Twitter plugin. When I Tweet my website automatically integrates these tweets. Sweet.
Moreover I added a small iPhone icon/link to my iPhone website. Usefull if you are browsing the internet on an iPhone. Check out right corner. My iPhone site is updated aswell. Visual changed are the same as ornholt.dk.
Posted by: Søren
in Websites on Jun 16, 2009
Do we need anther fashion/culture blog? Well.
The answer to that question depend on many things. Nevertheless I have been part/involved in designing and programming a CMS based blog for Mette Dixen and her Cand.mag friend Nina. The blog is named indimellem.dk and deal with ( I call it Cand.Mag stuff) fashion, movies, literature, architecture, design, culture, Copenhagen etc (Indimellem is "sometimes" in english).
