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 Software on Oct 10, 2010
Inspired by a blog post on Joomlabamboo I thought I would share my knowledge when it comes to updating a Joomla! website. Back in 2007 when I first started out with Joomla! CMS I did not know you had to update a Joomla! website 10 (or more) times a year due to security fixes etc.
In the beginning I just ignored the small updates, but as one of my friends Joomla! website got hacked I began updating my sites immediately when an update was released. Initially I used the FTP client Transmit - and updated the website manually by replacing and adding files in different folders. A really long updating proces which, if I was fast, took me more than 20 minutes per site.
Posted by: Søren
in CMS on Jul 23, 2010
The other day my browser landed on the website Gonelive.dk and if you are a web consultant or just like to discuss Danish websites and CMS you found the place. Gonelive.dk is all about interesting websites produced by various advertising and online agencies in Denmark. A great place to see and discuss Danish CMS based websites.
Visit Gonelive.dk here.
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 Websites on Dec 17, 2009
I learned some tricks in Photoshop, but I am not as good as Stein Bagger, who made his Ph.d. diploma in Photoshop.
Well my point is: I had 435 online guests on my website yesterday. And I have not been manipulating wth the number of guests in Photoshop in the picture below.
Posted by: Søren
in Websites on Dec 15, 2009
It is no secret that I consider myself a minimalist in the world of web design, music, furnitures and tons of other things. Minimalism in design means removing the unnecessary elements and focus on simplicity.
In this blog post, I am going to show you how web designs can can be considered as minimalism. I found 25 websites design which showcases how to built a minimalistic design using simple, but effective elements. In other words: Less is more:
Posted by: Søren
in Technology on Dec 11, 2009
Kvidr.dk is a Danish twitter community twitter sorted by categories and the number of followers. It is free to join and everybody with a twitter account can join.
Kvidr.dk makes it easy finding the top Twitters i DK and furthermore the site gives a decent overview.
Posted by: Søren
in CMS on Oct 27, 2009
Because of a forthcoming art exhibition at the media house "Ingeniøren" one of my most loyal clients (and girlfriend), Mette Dixen, wanted a new and more flexible website to present her paintings, resume etc.
I ended up using the designer friendly CMS Indexhibit as platform. Indexhibit is a web application used to build and maintain an archetypal, invisible website format that combines text, image, movie and sound.
