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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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    3
    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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    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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    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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    4
    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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