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Actually this just simple, just set up your carrier, zones and weight ranges.  In your BO open the  carrier you want to use as the default carrier and edit the group access. Do not leave it to default only, select it to apply to all the groups. In this case it would show the default shipping price  according to the default carrier selected and would remove the Free Shipping text. If the user is logged in, it would select carrier according to the country of the user. Please do this only for the default carrier you want to show shipping  price for to  non registered  users.

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If you are trying to use Command line language for the first time, you may find it very difficult to comprehend but as usual, in everything you do in life, Practice leads to perfection.  One of the best uses of the command language in MS-DOS is to help copy files quicker and securely . This is  especially good for large files.

COPY or XCOPY  is your language to copy files with different switches  attached to XCOPY particularly. Please see  a complete xcopy description here. The common  problem you would face using xcopy is getting the invalid parameters error.  For invalid parameters error, please make sure that you put your source or destination path  in quotes (” “) if any of the path files or folders has a space.

Lets say your source or destination folder looks like this – C:\My Documents   you would get an invalid parameters error with that but if you do this  – “C:\My Documents”  you should be fine.

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For those confused about what the Facebook graph search means, here is s typical article explaning that from Natlie Revell. Please click on the link to read the full article.

“Graph Search is what Facebook is calling the third of its three pillars; with the first being the news feed and the second being Timeline. Graph Search is the new search function Facebook is rolling out that produces results based on likes, interests, locations and relationship history.”

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Recently in one of the forum discussions a member highlighted a problem with design and browser. We know that people find comfort in a particular browser and i strongly support this being addicted to Firefox myself. People usually choose to use particular browsers because the design and navigation suites their visual perception while others like me would definitly go for technical functionanities it offers.

Having a non standard company web browser has its advantages and  disadvantages, as shown in different studies, the dis advantages can run into financial cost, at MDS we encourage our staff to use firefox but they are free to choose any browser of their choice. We have seen from our little staff and customer survey that people who use firefox also are more inclined to go for Chrome.   We will always support our staff and clients to be free with their browser choice though we recognize that it is much easier to have a uniform browser for mainly technical requirements .

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Custom templates in Joomla for newbies comes with their own problems.  One of the problems after successfully  publishing your Joomla custom template is how to adjust the pagination list from vertical to horizontal. As usual, this can be achieved with CSS.  Adding the following CSS code in the template CSS file would solve this. Here is the code ;

.pagination ul li{
display: inline;
padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px;
}

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For those that prefer not to use the default Joomla Templates and decides to code theirs would find some common problems associated with custom templates. One of the problem is the word ‘Details’ sticking out above the article parameters. While some may struggle to adjust this from the Article options parameters in the backend, one of the best ways  is to adjust it in the template CSS file. Adding this CSS syntax .article-info-term {display:none;} would remove it.

Enjoy!

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Recently i made it a must to include video in all the websites we develop  for clients at Master Digital Services Ltd . We were actually very surprised how this feature annoys some of our clients. They would complain that they do not want any video on their website. While some would complain about the video on their website, some would just pretend as if its not in existence on the website.  Let us remind website owners  that there are many advantages of having an active and relevant video on your website.  Please see the article below;

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We cannot deny the fact that Joomla is one of the best Content Management Systems on the internet today and even the best for some people. Extending Joomla is quite easy with loads of free and commercial Components, Modules and Plugins. Phoca Gallery stands out as one of the best  extensions with an active online support.

For those wishing to publish pictures online, you may wish to consider Phoca gallery. As you go through the Phoca gallery extensions parameters, you would discover how easy it is to configure your gallery into anything you want it to do.

One of the problems you would find after installing Phoca gallery is how to remove the ‘ Powered by Phoca gallery link’. Dont worry, just search the forums or make a donation,  contact the phoca team with your donations details and you would be sent files that would remove the link.

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