SPAM! : new web site for 'the chateau'

Thanks to discovering the joys of content management systems (thanks DNC
- Wordpress was ideal for my community volunteer assignment) I have been
working on a new web site for 'the chateau'.

Observant readers may have seen a link slip out here in the occasional
post when I forget to choose the right sig.

By courtesy of Joomla (thanks to Simon and others for their input) I now
have something much better. Still under development and needs a lot of
tweaking (particularly the photo layouts), but it's reasonably
functional already, including an availability display.

Anyone interested will find a status post on my Facebook page with a
link.

Should peeps wish to have a look I will post a direct link here, but I
don't want to attract the wrath of Auvache.

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You don't have to now!

 

Spamming Kahnt!

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Yep! And in the interests of fairness, I'll add
http://www.lanoyeraierocamadour.com/ and
http://www.lotvalleyenduro.com/Accommodation.html

P.S. including commercial URLs in your sig has always been OK for
regulars[1] afaik.

[1] And probably non-regulars as long as publishing the sig isn't their
only reason for posting.

 

*cough* www.labune.fr *cough*

 

A good start and, as you say, a reasonably functional site. And the joy of
Joomla is the templating system. Not only are there loads of free ones out
there but editing and changing them is a doddle too if you know a little
about html and CSS. You can try other looks at the click of a button. There
are also loads of image gallery components that are worth looking at to
polish the photo display.

One thing to bear in mind is that Joomla is a huge target for hackers so you
need to keep it updated to the latest version. It's easy to do but, as I
suspect, you have changed a default template these sometimes get updated and
you can lose your customization. Best way round this is to copy the template
and give it a new name. Just copy the entire directory of the appropriate
template and give it a name of your own. Look in the directory for the
templateDetails.xml file. Edit this file to change the name to your new one.
You can then choose that template from the template manager.

 

Oops sorry, didn't know you had a site up & running.

 

Some sort of scam IMHO. Get you down there and comfortable THEN tell you
what the weekly rates are ;o)

 

Well, it would be rude not to mention..... http://villa.brownz.org/
..... if you're all at it.

 

That's a half baked site if ever I saw one ;-)

Contact details might be a good start so at least someone could get in
touch with you to ask the rates and availabilty for the summer.

Just a thought.

 

I've only glanced at the extensions so far. The availability one was an
interesting challenge. Free, whereas a lot are commercial, but needed a
bit of hacking because the mySQL table structure didn't work with my
version of SQL. Created a table using PHPAdmin with the same fields but
compatible with my version and it worked. Plus having to fiddle with
language files that seemed not to have had some strings set up correctly
in the right files. What fun! I must look at the photo gallery
offerings. Also need to embed a Google Map properly. Just switching of
WYSIWYG article editing temporarily seems to be the simple way.

I haven't edited the template file by hand, but I think some learning
curve changes to the structure may have had the same effect. Thanks for
the tip, as well as making a backup of the whole shooting match
naturally.


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With the aid of extra pills from the quack yesterday for the
hypertension, yes.

Unfair? I thought you were a hunter down and eliminator of spam in any
form. Anyway, this is UKRM, what's fair got to do with it?



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I tried Joomla a few weeks ago, but switched to WordPress as the former was
like a 'gas factory' as we say.[/QUOTE]

As I said above, I am using Wordpress, as an unpaid volunteer, to set up
a site for a community organisation. Helps to keep my brain active now I
don't go to 'work' two days a week. When I did the requirements analysis
with them a couple of weeks ago it was clear that the ability for the
organisers to quickly add content themselves was important. The 'Quick
Post' feature in Worpress fits the bill excellently. Take a bit of
tuning to loose the 'blog' feel but they are very happy with the reults
so far.

I used that for my site partly to extend my knowledge of more complex,
but free, CMS. Heh, I can put it on my old gimmer looking for a bit of
light IT work CV! It offers great potential, particularly when you look
at the extensions available, but as you say, a higher level of
complexity. I've already fallen for one of the major 'gotchas'.
Fortunately if you google Joomla + your problem you pretty soon find
useful info,

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Much more your style.

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Here have some of these.
â Ҫ ҫ ğ ı İ î Ö ö Ş ş Ü ü

Ҫalış

The whole irony of going to work for a holiday is a bit much for me.
However it is rather nice area.

 

I can recommend JCE as the best editor to use. It is way better than the
standard one and can be configured to let you do the Google map stuff
without having to turn it off. The JCE extended image manager is excellent
although I think that may be an extra you have to pay for.

You'll also fine loads of Google map modules and plugins so you don't need
to hard code it if you don't want to.

 

Photos on the piss as well...
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Thanks for that I'll have a look.

For this site I don't need anything more fancy than a couple of embedded
'My Maps'. I do my Google Maps API and KML tinkering on another domain.

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If yoy can bear to sign up for a Google account then get sticking those
virtual pins in or creating routes. The map must be public, but not
necessarily 'listed'. You can share the map with other people for adding
content.

http://maps.google.co.uk/support/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=21670&topic=21676&answer=144347


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Ta muchly. My initial prejudices concerning Joomla! are being confirmed..
for example, there's a 'banner' on the front page of the site, and I'm
fucked if I can find where it's defined, so I can get rid of it.[/QUOTE]


You have to replace the default mw_joomla_logo.png banner with a .PNG of
your choice if using the rhuk_milkyway template. Or possibly edit the
template.css to not reference it at all. Beware that to change the size
gets tricky if you want it larger (interferes with the menu graphics).
Otherwise you might consider starting from scratch with no template, but
I suspect you need to be competent in css to do that.

div#logo {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
float: left;
width: 700px;
height: 90px;
background: url(../images/mw_joomla_logo.png) 0 0 no-repeat;
margin-left: 327px;
margin-top: 20px;
}

Tempus fugit, non autem memoria - oh hang on.

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