http://toolboxdigital.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:34:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://toolboxdigital.com/2010/03/disabling-google-analytics-for-front-end-administrators-in-joomla/ 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 ... http://toolboxdigital.com/2010/03/advanced-techniques-the-joomla-parent-menu-itemid/ 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. From MacHeist - here's what's included this time around: MacJournal MacJournal organizes ... http://toolboxdigital.com/2010/03/macheist-nanobundle-2-launches/ We've compiled a list of our most used development-centric applications for Mac, from coding to design tools - here are our ten favourites! Panic Coda Web: panic.com/coda | License: Commercial, $99 All the coding tools you could need in one place, including syntax-highlighted editing of all major code-types such as PHP, CSS, HTML, ... http://toolboxdigital.com/2010/01/ten-useful-mac-apps-for-web-development/ 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. We recently worked on a ... http://toolboxdigital.com/2010/01/advanced-techniques-mass-settings-changes-in-joomla/ We've recently been tasked with designing and building a bunch of newsletters for different sites. Newsletter crafting can be pretty straightforward but cumbersome at times due to the way they must be constructed in order to retain the original designs - even more so if the designs are quite ... http://toolboxdigital.com/2010/01/anatomy-of-a-newsletter/ The undisputed queen of Joomla, Amy Stephen, has set up a new Ning social community group especially for Joomla! professionals and developers. In just over a month it's amassed over 400 members and is growing rapidly. "We are an UNOFFICIAL Joomla! Developer and Site Builder Network for collaboration and involvement. ... http://toolboxdigital.com/2009/10/calling-all-joomla-developers/ You'd have thought there was a basic provision for this in Magento, but unfortunately this is not the case and, looking at this thread on the Magento forums, it's not something that Varien are looking at correcting at any point in the near future. The problem is that in-development ... http://toolboxdigital.com/2009/10/how-to-delete-test-orders-and-reset-counters-in-magento/ If you've ever had to move a Magento site from one server/domain to another, you'll already know how tricky it can be to get things working right afterwards. The following article describes the processes and steps involved to successfully move your Magento site to a new server/domain name, along ... http://toolboxdigital.com/2009/09/moving-a-magento-installation/ Autumn's definitely arrived looking at the fog cover this morning - but with it brought a chilling (if not beautiful) scene to my garden this morning - hundreds of dew-covered spider webs covering the bushes, trees and grass. I couldn't resist grabbing a snap of one of them. http://toolboxdigital.com/2009/09/a-different-kind-of-web-site/