Internet Marketing
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Thursday, 19 July 2007 |
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My friend Philip Steynberg has launched a business networking website called Yrbiz - for Entrepreneurs
He is launching his business networking initiative with a Business startup race in which various charities are supported and at the same time offering small businesses and entrepeneurs the opportunity to win some cash prizes.
All in good fun and worth checking out |
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Written by Christine
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Thursday, 12 July 2007 |
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Tutorials are rated by audience level, namely:
Joomby  : Newbie to Joomla
JoomJock : Knows his way around Joomla. Knows how to change the front page around.
JoomZoom : Expert User level. Writes his own components.
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Sunday, 01 July 2007 |
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I was really shocked recently to discover that the developer of OpenSEF has abandonded the project and even more, apparently has decided to move away from Joomla! I am not 100% clear on his reasons, not having followed the whole saga but I do think that it is unfortunate, especially since he deleted the whole support forum from his website as well.
What a pity to lose all that knowledge. There are 13900 pages sitting in the Google cache...
I am using OpenSEF on all my sites but will also explore Artio JoomSEF in future.
Apparently OpenSEF has now been taken over by another developer as is now known as NUSEF - so at least it hasn't completely disappeared from the horison.
More information can be found on NUSEF here
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Monday, 25 June 2007 |
Just a quick tip - I came across the solution for this on one of the Joomla forums once but when I ran into the problem again I just couldn't find it! After some scratching around in my own CSS files I came across it again and am posting it as much for my own benefit as anyone else's.
If you use an image for the background in your template, you will find that the Print preview buttons and and Email buttons in your content opens windows where the text is often not readable due to the fact that the background image is often quite dark and your font might also be dark. The solution is as follows:
Add the following lines at the top of your template CSS file
body.contentpane {
background: #FFFFFF;
padding-left : 2px;
}
The 'padding-left : 2px' is optional, really. I just often find that the text is squashed up against the lefthand side of the window (for example in the email window)
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Monday, 18 June 2007 |
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I attended the first Joomla! Day in South Africa over the weekend in Cape Town, organised by SlingShot and http://www.joomla.org.za.
It was great!
Here are some photos that I stole from
http://picasaweb.google.com/slingshotsean/JoomlaDaySouthAfricaCapeTown
I hope Sean from Slingshot doesn't mind.
Apart from Melanie who helped organise the event (in the back) I am the single female in the photo - and one of about 4 who attended the event! Where are all the lady geeks?
But how great is this - I met the JoomlaJunkies guys as well as Ryan, the author of the JCE Wysiwig Editor
as well as, of course, lots of other people doing great Joomla! stuff.
The next Joomla!Day will be in Johannesburg, so for a change I won't have to get up at the ung-dly hour of 3:45am to catch a flight....
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Written by Christine
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Sunday, 10 June 2007 |
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Written by Christine
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
Quicksite Website - R1 600 excluding VAT
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Startup Website - R1 800 excluding VAT
 Our Startup Package is a personalized site with 10 pages - ideal for small to medium businesses who are just starting out - start small and expand your website as your business expands. This package is also suitable if you want to start a small personal or hobby site. (read more)
Business Website
 Affordable business websites to advertise your products and services online. The Business Website is a personalized site with 8 pages and is the most effective form of advertising and marketing. Your website is a brochure, a sales force, a help desk and a shop all in one. (read more)
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 Website design styles, just like fashions, change as time goes by. Redesign packages are available from R4 900.(read more)
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Wednesday, 02 May 2007 |
Tags: Pricetag, Virtuemart
Here is a Pricetag payment module for Virtuemart. This payment module was written to work with the new administration system of Pricetag. The installation instructions can be found in the zip file.
Click here to download the Pricetag Payment module for Virtuemart.
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Wednesday, 02 May 2007 |
For those of you using Pricetag with OSCommerce, you will have received notification already that the Pricetag System is changing. There are two options for interfacing with Pricetag - the HTTP POST interface, and the web services interface. For the POST interface the buyer will leave the OSCommerce website and be directed to the Pricetag secure website, where they will enter their credit card details. The POST method is not changing radically, the changes are merely to fit in with their new administration system.
After the transaction has been completed, the customer must click on a link to return to your OSCommerce website. If they don't do that, the transaction is not completed. This has long been a bugbear problem for OSCommerce/Pricetag users.
The only consolation is that Pricetag is not the only payment processor that works in this way. 2Checkout, for example, works the same, with the result that you might end up with the transactions sitting in the shopping basket and not transferred over to the completed orders side. You, as the website owner now has the problem that the shopper has paid for the goods but you don't know what they bought!
There are only two 'solutions' for this problem. The one is that I suggest that the OsCommerce website owner makes a nice big logo for their website that they can place on the Pricetag payment page with not only the logo, but also the words "Please click on the link below to return to our website in order to complete the order" - or words to that effect. The second option is a contribution that was developed for this problem that can be found on the OSCommerce plugins site:
http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1168
Here is the HTTP POST interface for OSCommerce and Pricetag to fit in with the new administration system. This is NOT the web services interface yet - I just haven't had a chance to develop that yet.
Click here to download Version 2 of the OSCommerce-Pricetag interface (POST method)
** Update 2007-07-01 : I have since developed the webservices interface for Pricetag/OSCommerce and it can be downloaded from the list below at the bottom of the page |
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Written by Christine
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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
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Tags: Web Hosting, Domains, Webhosting
OK, so you are looking for affordable and inexpensive hosting for hosting your domain or domains?
Let's take a look at what we mean exactly with web hosting and how it works to host your webpage or your domain.
Firstly, you will need a domain name. Read more about the importance of selecting the right domain name here. Your domain name will be your 'address' on the Internet.
Secondly, you need to select a website design company. Very often website design companies (like us) offer hosting for the websites that they design, or they are affiliated with good web hosting companies and offer hosting through these companies. In this case, the website design company becomes the first line of support for all hosting issues and interface on your behalf with the hosting company.
The web design company can also advise on the best type of hosting required for the particular type of website that they will design for you. They will be able to calculate how much disk space you require, advise on the amount of bandwidth that you will require depending on the type of content that you want to host (for example, videos and large download files will require more bandwidth than just text) and also ensure that you have all the other features that you might require.
For example, if you want a website with e-commerce functionality you are going to require a database to store your products in. The web design company will then ensure that your hosting package include a MySQL or other database.
Read here more about the features that a web hosting company should offer you. But often it is the best to let the web design company manage the hosting for you.
So the LAST thing therefore that you need to select is the actual hosting company! That being said, it is very important to choose the RIGHT hosting company since your website needs a stable platform to be hosted on. To find out more about how everything related to domain names, hosting and the Internet fit together, you might find this article on 'website hosting explained' useful. It compares setting up a website on the Internet with setting up a business in the 'real' world.
We offer website design and development services and also the right type of hosting for these webpages - so why not contact us to find out what we can do to get your website online in no time!
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