You may have noticed that StevenStark.com just got a makeover. This will be followed by 3d integration, but for now we will stick with this.
What did I do?
I setup a HTML Wrapper to render the HTML content in Flex (Flash). There were many issues involved in getting this to work, so let [...]
I recently signed up for a Dedicated Virtual (dv) server with Media temple, and had to do quite a lot of work to properly configure things. This article is designed to help those in a similar situation. Additional comments and suggestions are welcome. Use this article at your own risk. Backup everything.
Background: I am running [...]
I work with a lot of Content Management Systems, and one large problem is that 90% of the websites built with them look like each other. I believe this has to do with the difficulties in editing a module, component, plugin or extension’s output HTML code. This could be resolved with the use of XSLT, [...]
Friday, January 4th, 2008 | Posted in CMS | No Comments »This tutorial is designed to show you how to have one of the many XML driven Flash mp3 players to list the songs uploaded to your CMS website. This example uses the Joomla CMS with the User Home Pages 2 component used to upload thet .mp3 files to user pages. A live example can be [...]
Monday, May 28th, 2007 | Posted in CMS, Flash, Tutorials | No Comments »This morning I stumbled upon a well written post linking to many useful Joomla components, modules and mambots. I fould this list so useful that I have copied it here. It used to span acroll multiple pages, so this version will be more accessible.
Friday, May 25th, 2007 | Posted in CMS | 13 Comments »This week I was asked to fix the default RSS output in WordPress. I soon found out all I needed were two XML plugins and to use RSS2 or atom feeds to force the full text of the article and removes any content:encoded tags. The default RSS only displays a summary of the article with [...]
Friday, May 11th, 2007 | Posted in CMS | No Comments »This morning I was asked to install phpMyAdmin, and got held up for a few minutes on the setup. This is where I thought to myself: “Self, there has to be an easier way!”. There in fact was a much easier way!
Monday, April 2nd, 2007 | Posted in CMS | No Comments »Joomla is, in my opinion, the top CMS. It is also my opinion that Simple Machines Forum (SMF) is the top forum software. These two packages can work together, however it is quite a task and depends on how you want to build your website.
Friday, March 30th, 2007 | Posted in CMS | No Comments »