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1. Posted in Joomla and tagged with CSS, Design, Development, Tips

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   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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2. Posted in Miscellaneous and tagged with CSS, Development, HTML, Newsletters

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   Jan

   2010

   Anatomy of a Newsletter

   

   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 complex and laden with images.

   This article describes the basics for turning your newsletter designs into functional newsletters.

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