Get short easy to remember Facebook Fanpage URLS

The default of Facebook fanpages is that when you start one you get a URL like this

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Truro-United-Kingdom/Wavelength-Magazine

however if you want something shorter and more cool like. 

http://www.facebook.com/Polzeath

then all you need to do is visit this page

www.facebook.com/username  and you can assign short names to your fanpages. 

ITS AS EASY AS THAT :))

Making GK3 News Show ( mod_news_show_gk3 ) wider

There's two elements we need to do to make the GK3 News Module (Joomla!) bigger.  Firstly the width is preset in the module itself.

OPEN  modules/mod_news_show_gk3/tmpl/view.default.php


FIND

table mstyle; ?> class="gk_news_show_table" id="module_unique_id; ?>">


DELETE mstyle; ?> 

Now we can set the width from our template.css  ( or wherever you want to put it from inside your template )

for example 

#newsshow1 {
width:100%;
}

you can change the class id from inside the the module administration. 

Hope this helps you.

Joomla Module Frontpage not showing latest article

On the frontpage of Escape Surfboards Media Pages - http://www.escapesurfboards.biz I've used the Joomla module Mini Front Page ( mod_minifrontpage ) to display the latest blog entry for the Surf Reports category.
However I was getting a problem with the article not being the latest entry. A small change to the mySql statement in the helper file for this module has sorted this problem out in this scenario.


OPEN modules/mod_minifrontpage/helper.php


FIND line 95 - which should be the ORDER BY command.

I changed this to

. "\n ORDER BY a.id DESC "



this now works for me.








Surf Report:Polzeath Surf Reports

Blogs - Surfboard Manufacturing Blogs, SUP Blogs, Kite Boarding Blogs, Retro Surfing Blogs

Gallery - Polzeath Surf Pictures, constantine surf photos, UK surfing pictures

Videos - Surfing equipment videos, surf technical videos, surf equipment videos

Technical - Polzeath Ding Repair, custom kite boards daymer, surfboard artwork cornwall

 

 

 

Getting rid of  à from Mysql Searchs.

Getting rid of  à from Mysql Searchs.


I was returning a search from a MySQL database and in my results I'm getting these signs around £ signs 'Â Ã' .

The way to get rid of this was to change the collation of this table in MySQL. It was latin and after changing it to Utf8_unicode_ci .

stop editPlus overtyping

Today when I turned started to use my EditPlus software I found I could not use the return button as I could before. Insted of creating a new line it would just drop to the line below. Also when editing it would overtype.

I could not find any information on this from google searches. So after solving this problem have created this blog in the hope you will find it and save you some time.

The searches I made in Google where.

Edit plus overtyping

stop editplus overtyping

editPlus return button not working

editPlus turn off overtyping


I could not find anything of use here or in the softwares documentation so had to cover every option I could in the menu.

What you need to do it is turn off the 'auto indent' under the 'Document' menu item on the top menu.


Hope this helps you out.

Joomla - Customizing Mini Ad Spot css

I was commissioned to create a menu item that would display a few adverts - that would be

a image for a company > each one on different coloured backgrounds and they would need

to display randomly.

On this version of Joomla I already had Flexbanner - which is a VERY flexible advertising

manager this would do what I needed except for the last part. I couldn't seem to

randomise the adverts. If you know an answer to this let me know.

After checking out a few Advertising problems and finding problems with them, in a few

instances 'security' issues seemed to be weak - I found Mi

ni Ad Spot


This does exaclty what I needed only I needed to write a little css hack so that the

backgrounds displayed properly.

Here's what I need to change. NOTE! YOULL NEED TO GET RID OF SPACES AROUND THE < or >'s


>> Download the module to you harddrive

>> OPEN modules/mod_miniadspot/tmpl/default.php

>> on line 72, 76 , 81

FIND


< div style="float:left; display: inline; " >

CHANGE TO

< div class="miniad" style="float:left; display: inline; " >



!! note: now you could either just paste the ccs below into your template.css in the template your using. However if like me you use more than 1 template on your site you'll need to call it up from inside the module.


OPEN

modules/mod_miniadspot/mod_miniadspot.xml


FIND:

helper.php

ADD UNDERNEATH:


< filename >css/style.css


CREATE a new folder in modules/mod_miniadspot/ called 'css'

CREATE a new file named 'style.css'

paste this code or similar into it.



UPLOAD THESE FILES

Getting permission problems with noixACL - Joomla Extension help

if you've noixACL installed on your Joomla CMS installation then you may end up banging your head against a wall when you go back into your admin area and find that you can't add articles etc. At this time you'll probably search the settings and try and sort it out. If you manage to sort this out on a perminant basis then let me know because my solution is to

>> choose 'Access Control' from the components drop down.

>> goto 'adapters'

>> then turn off the adapter for the item that your working on

>> then turn it on again.

yeah it's not ideal but a temporary solution until I work it out properly.