I got a request from a customer to make site like this one.
https://minibigbooks.com/en-EN/
First I needed to get the flying books working and I used this tutorial to get started.
This tutorial came in handy because they were rotating through the background colors and I wanted to add that feature to my page as well.
I hope this helps someone else out there…
Looking in on a customers website I was hit with a dialog box stating “This endpoint has been retired”. Not sure what to do I Googled it and found the following article.
I was using a Instagram module, and sure enough it was broken. I now need to go back to the customer to ask for more money to fix it. These API’s make it awesome to pull Social Media; however, I wish the Social Media Platforms could standardize and make it easier for a developers reputation. I like asking for money, but hate having to do because something put in place 6 months before is now broken.
I hope this helps someone else out there…
Got a great tip last night from the developer at BMoreCreative inc. He was having issues installing a Beta version of Joomla 4 for development purposes. Then he discovered Joomla.com not .org.
I decided to give it a try myself. It was super easy. I provided an email address and what I want the site to be called. Received an email with the activation link, created a password, and I had a “mysite.joomla.com” hosting, cpanel package ready for me in seconds.
It installed a 3.8 site but they provided me with a CPanel so I plan to upgrade to Joomla 4 to get ready for when it becomes the main distribution.
They also offer up a free Gantry based template called Cloud 3. I installed this since I do love Gantry. You can download it here.
https://www.cloudaccess.net/cloudbase-3.html
I hope this helps someone else out there….
With a recent project I needed to design a mock-up for the customer in Photoshop. I was planning on using Font Awesome and Google Font Orbitron. I used this tutorial to show me how to download and install a Google Font on my machine so I can use it in Photoshop.
For adding Font Awesome I followed the instructions presented by OSTraining
https://www.ostraining.com/blog/webdesign/fontawesome-psd/
I hope this helps someone else out there…
I wanted to take this component for a test run. It is always on the top row of “Install from Web” tab. It is a hefty install. When finished I clicked on “Lists” to create a list and got the following error:
Error 500 Layout listing not found.
I googled and didn’t find a quick solution other than “did you re-install it”. I ran it again from the “Install from web” tab, and got the same error. I went to the site to download their latest package. It comes down as a .gz. I thought I needed to unzip it first and I did. I didn’t need to do that. I just use the .gz (gun zip).
I was now able to create a list and it retained my only user…me.
I found this article for using Chronoforms with ACYMailing to get subscribers. It worked great. Just a name, email field, and a submit button combined with an PHP script. The user gets an email to confirm they click on the link in the email and ACYMailing took care of the rest.
https://www.acyba.com/acymailing/107-acymailing-chronoform.html#php
I hope this helps someone else out there…
I was matching another designer’s template where there are 4 big buttons, in different colors, with different icons, and different links.
Very nice. I was using Joomla 3.8 so I created a menu and gave it a style of the color of the button such as “red” for the first button, so each menu item had it’s own class. I had a difficult time when I had three words on the first button, but only 1 word on the other buttons. The line spacing to fit the three lines needed to be “line-height: 1.2em;”, but this made the text on the other three buttons at the top of the box.
The answer was the display option mixed with the line-height in combination with a dash of fixed height. Then align it in the middle.
#feature-menu ul li a {
font-size:2vw;
line-height: 110px;
height: 120px;
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
Then overwrite that style with a specific line-height.
#feature-menu ul li a.red {
line-height: 1.4em;
}
I hope this helps someone else out there…
I installed Chronoforms 6 for WordPress and it requires PHP 5.6 or higher. I am running PHP 5.5 and 7.3 is available.
This video got me started:
I downloaded PHP here: https://windows.php.net/download/
I moved the PHP.ini, wampserver.conf, and phpForApache.ini files from my PHP 5.5 folder to my new PHP 7 folder.
I made a few changes to the PHP.ini and phpForApache.ini from John Dugan’s instructions.
In my PHP.ini the only line I changed was line 1943.
WAMP wouldn’t start after I changed the version to PHP 7.
In the wampserver.conf file I needed to change the following two lines:
$phpConf[‘apache’][‘2.4’][‘LoadModuleName’] = ‘php7_module’;
$phpConf[‘apache’][‘2.4’][‘LoadModuleFile’] = ‘php7apache2_4.dll’;
I restarted WAMP and it was up and running.
The first issue I ran into was CURL needed to be enabled, but the fonts on the site I was working on switched from a Sanserif font to a serif font. Not sure why.
I hope this helps someone else out there…
Divi theme has some built in icons that you can call in a style sheet such as the following:
.someclass:before {
font-family: “ETmodules”;
content: “\6c”;
}
This will give me the icon of a pad and pencil.
I originally got this tip from Josh Hall on YouTube. Thanks for sharing Josh!
This issue I had was being able to figure out the code number for which Icon. The code numbers do not match Font Awesome font codes.
I finally found Elegant Themes cheat sheet for these icons.
The Elegant Icon Font – 360 Of The Best Free Icons For The Modern Web
I hope this helps someone else out there…
I had a customer complain about not being able to reach the new site we just finished. They were getting a 404 page not found page. This is because Google has the old pages indexed.
First I added the website to Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools so I could get the ball rolling on getting the old URL’s removed from their index.
Second, I got working on creating a custom 404 page. The following article helped me understand how to do this in DIVI.
It took about 30 minutes start to finish to get this working.
I hope this helps someone else out there…
I have used Akeeba for years for Joomla and made moving and backup up sites so easy. I started purchasing the Pro version so I could exclude various directories and back up to Amazon Web Services. With the use of a Cron Job my sites were taking care of themselves.
I was so glad to see Akeeba make their backup solution for WordPress. The best part was the way it ran the 3 SQL statements you need for updating the permalinks automatically. Although this was best solution I had used for backing up and moving a WordPress site it didn’t always work. Sometimes it would never finish running the SQL permalink updates and the site wouldn’t complete the move. In addition, the plugin would tell me I had an update available, but when I tried to automatically update it the site was breaking. I would end up with a blank white website.
Well this latest version of Akeeba Backup / Kickstart software is working really well. When ever I have moved a site the Permalinks update works well, and the latest version updates through the plugin manager without a hitch. I would highly recommend this software to anyone. The pro version is totally worth it.
I hope this helps someone else out there…