My Facebook Fanpage has dissapeared - how do I get it back

I wrote this blog recently My Facebook Fanpage has dissapeared. The good news is we got it back. It took a week!! There was any contact from Facebook at any point. Anyway if you want to do the same then I highly recommend following the tips here Get your Fanpage Back and I really hope you have some success also.

virtuemart how to show categories on the front page

There's a simple way to do this.

YOU DO NOT NEED TO ADD AN EXTENSION

All you have to do is go to the 'menu' button in administrator

go to the 'mainmenu' and change the button type to 'virtuemart' and enter the category you want to display.

virtuemart how to show category images

Apperently this is common problem, which doesn't help when looking around the internet for a soution. Heres some of the google search phrases I'd made.

virtuemart showing category thumnail

virtuemart show category images

This page http://www.gjcwebdesign.com/no-thumbnail-images-in-virtuemart-category-view.html says that normally its a chmod problem but it wasn't in my case.

After searching countless posts I found where the code generating the category display would be. its on

themes/default/templates/common/categoryChildlist.tpl.php

and the code showing the category image is

ps_product::image_tag( $category["category_thumb_image"]

that was present so I wrote Hello World

And it worked - this means that the code is present that I need to display.

So why no thumbnail !!

This is when the pin dropped. Well in Virtuemart you have a category main image and thumbnail and although I'd added a category full image I hadn't added a thumbnail - Doh!!!!

Trying to set up a cron job on Heart internet.

I've been trying to set up a cron job to run a webpage


I've tried setting up a redirect in .htaccess to send the address 'http://www.mysite.co.uk/mycron' to it. And then use 'wget' in the command line.


wget -O - -q -t 1 http://www..mysite.co.uk/mycron


and got the error
'Your script returned the following:
Can't find 'wget'. Check that you have the correct location. '

and i've also tried setting up a php script and forwarding there the header at http://www.mysite.co.uk/cron/rsscontent.php using the command

/home/sites/mysite.co.uk/public_html/cron/rsscontent.php


but this method returns a report that my method to call this page up using 'Location:' is inappropriate.


After mailing Heart support the reply was that in regards to the calling a page direct it cannot be done from the same server as it could cause a loop. However after trying the command

wget -O - -q -t 1 http://www..mysite.co.uk/mycron

from another server ( still on heart ) theres still no success.

I've got it sorted now though - just signed up for an account at www.setcronjob.com where you can use them for free ( you have to redo them every month though or pay! ) and am now free to spend time doing other work ;) phew...

Learning Dutch in 3 months

We're going to a wedding in Holland in 3 months so the target is to learn as much Dutch as possible but this is what I'm up against.

* 2 kids under 3 years of age
* Self Employed business owner ( dawn to dusk work !)
* have to spend at least! 20 hrs a week building our house to live.

So the plan is to utilise any spare time ie, walking, driving, yoga, tv time - and try and fit in a hour a day 6 days a week.

My smart phone will be one of my best friends through this, so mp3 downloads, android apps, you tube videos will be major tools in this mission. I'll let you know how I get on.

Create awesome Mega drop down menus in Joomla

I've been asked by a client to create a killer drop down menu like on Msw store page http://store.magicseaweed.com/?utm_source=MSW%2BSite&utm_medium=SB&utm_campaign=homepage or on Next Clothings website .

After finding a link to this module Maxi Menu in Joomlas Forum . I installed the module on a testing server and it seems to do all the things I need it to.

Here's what I've done so far to get it working. I'll be playing around with it over the next day so will hopefully get it looking professional.

Heres what I did.

> Opened up the current menu that I wanted to swap with the new one in a seperat browser window.

> created a new menu with the maxi menu module

> copied all relevant deatils from the old menu ie location, pages.

> in the joomla admin > menu > click on menu I'm changing.

> in the title of the top level menu item I want multi rows on add '[cols2]' - ( 2 being the number of rows you wish )

> create 'seperator' menu items and put [col] in the title when I want to start a new row (to create 'seperator' menu go ot 'new' in the menu screen and under 'select Menu Item type' scroll down to 'seperator. )

They'll be more to come on this module. Here's what I googled looking for the best solution for this

awesome joomla dropdown menus
joomla killer dropdown menus
the best joomla dropdown menu
joomla mega menu

Hacking News Pro GK4

Hacking News Show gk4



I was actually first looking for ' hacking news show gk3' but then found our theres a GK4 version out so decided to hack that to look like how I want it.

Hopefully by the time your reading this the news show is now up at UK Surf Magazine for you to have a look at.

A couple of things I needed to change in css was this

on line 66 of www.yourwebsite.com/modules/mod_news_pro_gk4/interface/css/style.css

and get rid of
clear: both;

this will then mean I can dislay the div boxes for headers and text next to the image.