RocketTheme Magazine Edition

RocketTheme Magazine

This February magazine edition contains 5 new articles, that range in topic from using the new Ohanah event extension with RocketTheme templates, Working with Magento's widgets and static blocks, Avanced Module Manager, and much more. Please feel free to contact us regarding topics and if you are interested in writing for us.

Ohanah app is a Joomla extension that allows you to easily manage your events. Fully compatible with Joomla 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5. Ohanah automagically adapts to RocketTheme templates. I won’t go into much details about the new Ohanah V2, you can learn more about it here: http://app.ohanah.com/tour.

As a RocketTheme Magazine reader you can get the new Ohanah v2 using this special 20% discount coupon: RTMAGAZINE (offer will expire the 31.3.2012)

   

Working as a forum moderator here I often see members’ posts asking how to publish modules on a page that doesn’t exist in the Joomla menu structure or how to publish modules just on a certain page of a specific extension. Answers to those kinds of questions can be very long and somehow frustrating to the end users since many of those users are often beginners in Joomla world.

   

Magento can be pretty daunting when starting out. There's an awful lot of files to trawl through when hunting down bits of code, and it takes quite a while to get to know how it all works together.

So - when it comes to adding additional content - it would be great if you could avoid worrying about the file structure completely, and add everything through the admin. Luckily, since version 1.4, that's entirely possible, thanks to Magento's Widgets.

   

Continuing in my developer series, in this article I’ll show you how to quickly and easily add those facebook, twitter and rss buttons to any article. I’ll cover a couple of ways to accomplish this using nothing more than what’s built into Joomla, no specialized plugins needed!

   

Background images are usually the largest in any web design, both in terms of dimensions and file size. Some are several hundred pixels across, and they're usually part of every page of the website. If you reduce the image quality of your background imagery too far, you end up with gritty, pixelated backgrounds across your entire site. Conversely, if you upgrade the image quality of your background images even slightly, their file size grows tremendously, causing the designer to pay dearly for sharp backgrounds at the cost of hundreds of kilobytes. Because background images are so large and prominent, designers are frequently fighting this battle between a slow-but-sharp-looking design and a lightweight, fast-loading website with less-than-perfect images.

   
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