Changing the overall colour on a Joomla 1.5 template with photoshop
Written by Paul Whipp
Sunday, 31 August 2008 22:45
When you use a commercial or free Joomla template, there is usually an option to change the template colour. This generally will not have changed all the colour hues and often leaves something to be desired.
There is a simple technique in photoshop that you can use to change the colour of the image files without compromising their shadows, gradients etc. Essentially you can change:
Adding the comment facility to Joomla articles - mxComment
Written by Paul Whipp
Monday, 25 August 2008 03:56
Its good to allow users to add comments and to rate the articles on a website. The mxComment utility provides effective ratings and commenting.
It is free, it works well and it installs cleanly on Joomla 1.5 (although it is currently using legacy mode).
However, it does involve quite a lot of fiddling to get it to behave so I'm going to consider jomComment as an alternative. I'll update this article with my findings.
A few tips to help you when you work with web site designers. Web site designers are very numerous and their capabilities vary. They are a good economical choice if you are creating a brochure site (a site that is presenting information about your business to casual visitors) but you will need to ensure that the marketing of your site is being handled too in order to get the visitors to actually visit your site.