Spot the difference was one of my favourite games when I was a child.
(No Wii or Playstations when I was a child, and only 3 television stations - how did we ever survive such a primitive lifestyle).
I always struggled to find all the differences, my sister was so much better at this game than me.
But I bet everyone can spot the differences in the next picture - a screenshot of the Joomla administrator interface.
At some point in a web developers life you will no doubt be asked to build a web site using the organisations standard font or some wierd and wonderful font a photoshop designer has set their heart on.
Despite much talk in the standards bodies to permit the embedding of fonts in a web page this is not yet a viable option and we are left to either convince the client they can only use web standard fonts or to create the text using an image.
There are many different approaches to keeping your email inbox under control. Personaly I always try to answer emails as they arrive as I fear that if I let them stack up I will never answer them.
Today I was pointed to a slightly different approach, although perhaps recipients of my email replies might feel that I have always used it.
This post is here because in the last 3 weeks I must have googled for the answer about 5 times.
How do you search and replace a word in a database using phpMyAdmin?
Today I found a new book for Joomla! that aims to be a
"beginner's visual step-by-step guide to setting up useful websites using Joomla! in a few hours!"
Released under a Creative Commons Atrribution 2.5 India License.
This post has been through several revisions whilst I temper my anger!
A common e-mail from myself to some of the people that I have helped build web sites starts something like this....
"Very disappointed!!! I spent ages making your web site accessible to all. I spent ages showing you why it was important to make your web site accessible. I showed you web sites that didn't have any alt tags for images and how unusable that made your site. I showed you how easy it was to at the very minimum give an image an alt tag. And what do you do as soon as my back is turned...."
Obviously on this site it's on the top right corner of the page. But why is it there and can you still search the site if there isn't a search button?
I'm often asked for an extension that will translate a website into other languages. Although there are several available at JED that provide automated translation services I can never recommend them.
Why? Well if your content is important enough to you to write it in the first place then it is important enough to ensure that the translation is correct and no automated service will ever capture the nuance of a language accurately.
I love the ability in Joomla 1.5 to override the developers idea of how to present the data without touching their code. This means I can modify the output to my hearts content safe in the knowledge that if a new version is released my changes won't be lost.
Well that's almost true.
