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    5
    Mar
    2010

    Disabling Google Analytics for front-end Administrators in Joomla

    A good question, raised by Jack Bremer, prompted the writing of this brief post in case it’s of use to somebody else at some point (including myself). The GA plugin in WordPress has this option, which is great for larger sites with loads of front-end admins all working on the site – you don’t want to be diluting your Analytics with all that noise.

    So, how can the same be acheived in Joomla? Well, quite easily actually. Read on to find out how…

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    Mar
    2010

    Advanced Techniques: The Joomla Parent Menu ItemID

    Joomla’s ItemID system offers a great way of customizing sites by giving the opportunity to style major parts of a template or page based on the menu links ItemID. Every menu link in a Joomla website has one; and they are unique to each and every link on your site.

    But what if you need to style entire sections of a site based on a handful of top-level (parent) menu items?

    This article explores the methodology of styling sub-level pages respective of their common parent menu links.

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    Mar
    2010

    MacHeist nanoBundle 2 Launches

    If you’re a Mac owner, don’t forget to grab your nanoBundle before it expires!

    The collection includes software worth over $260 for the measly sum of just $19.95, and a quarter of the funds raised goes to a charity of your choice.

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    Jan
    2010

    Ten Useful Mac Apps For Web Development

    We’ve compiled a list of our most used development-centric applications for Mac, from coding to design tools – here are our ten favourites!

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  5. Posted in Joomla and tagged with , ,
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    Jan
    2010

    Advanced Techniques: Mass Settings Changes In Joomla!

    Ever need to do a bulk settings change to an established site in Joomla? Perhaps you forgot to make the changes are you were building the site. This article describes how you can perform mass settings changes in Joomla using a simple MySQL query.

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