I most recently ran into this problem using JoomlaWorks FrontPage Slideshow (for Joomla 1.5), but have seen it before in other JavaScript slideshow scripts. During the transition, you will see dots in the dark/black areas of the image being transitioned. These dot’s can be white, but are actually whatever the color of the background behind the slideshow image is. The problem is actually that both IE7 and IE8 interpret the black areas of the images as transparent. Why? Probably just the typical IE browser bug (try FireFox or Chrome if you aren’t already using them).
Here’s what it look’s like:
Internet Explorer Slideshow Transition Problem
How do you get rid of it? There are two ways that I’m aware of:
1) Set the background to black. This will probably make your slideshow darker overall, which may or may not be acceptable, depending on the context.
2) Edit your image to make the black, just not quite black. If you are using Photoshop, do the following:
- Choose “Select > Color Range”
- Click on the eyedropper with the “+”
- Click on a black area, then click “OK.” This should select all the black in the image.
- Fill the selection with a not-quite-black color.
It’s pretty common to have the same global navigation items it both the main navigation and footer links of a website. Be careful though, if you are using an SEF URL extension for Joomla 1.5, such as sh404SEF. Having multiple menu items pointing to the same article or ItemId can disable the active menu styling. Instead, use the standard Joomla menu links for the main navigation, and set up the footer navigation with external type menu items, pointing to the sef urls created for the main navigation.
Page titles in Joomla 1.5 are not particularly configurable. I prefer to use an SEO extension, which gives me total control of my page titles and metatags, but I understand the reluctance to rely on a non-commercial extension. Will it be around for Joomla 1.6? Who knows?
The problem with Joomla 1.0.X page titles was that they insisted on putting the site name in the page title. Joomla 1.5 cured that disease, but some people would still like to have their site name in their page title consistently across the site. For that, the perfectly simple solution is the Title Manager extension for Joomla 1.5 (native).
Download, install and activate this plugin, and you will have your Joomla site name, or another text string of your choosing in all page titles. You can even configure whether or not the page title goes before or after the original page title, as well as the seperator character. Here’s a peek at the configuration screen:
I’ve been using the Breezing Forms fork of the Facile Forms powerful form creation component and module for Joomla 1.5 for a while now. During development of a recent project, however, I suddenly starting having problems. Upon form submission, I’d get sent to a 404 page with the error message “Article #0 not found.”
After addressing every possible cause I could think of, in desperation I tried turning Legacy Mode off. It worked! Go to Plug-in Manager > System – Legacy, and click off if it is enabled.
Of course I needed to scramble a bit to eliminate the need for Legacy mode. I found out the hard way that Joomla 1.5 Legacy mode and Breezing Forms don’t mix!
September 8th, 2007
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!JoomlaComment 2.40 is probably the best free commenting component available for Joomla content management system (CMS). Unfortunately, that may not be good enough for those Joomla developers or web site owners without a lot of coding, troubleshooting and hacking experience, because it is pretty buggy.
First of all, if you aren’t using Community Builder, you are going to get the following error when you try to use this component:
joscomment Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()
It’s an easy enough fix, if you are comfortable commenting out some code. The instructions can be found here: http://www.haanchiang.com/joomla-comment . Also available on that page is a downloadable version of the component with that and a couple of other patches already installed. I installed the haanchiang version right after I got the first error, so didn’t have to deal with the other errors described on the page.
After that was solved, I set the admin to allow anyone to post, but required that the posts be approved before publishing. When filling out the comment form and hitting send, I got the following error:
Database error: insertNewPost!
The post, however was inserted into the database and I could publish it just fine. More than just an annoyance, however, because the user would tend to think the post wasn’t accepted, and may try again. Because I haven’t been able to fix it, I have no choice but to remove !JoomlaComment from my Joomla installation. In searching for a solution, however, I did find a lot of posts about various other bugs that people are experiencing with this component. If this is version 2.4, I’d recommend waiting for 9.2 before giving this component a try.
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