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Again let’s call to your attention a little problem with Module title not showing after you have designed your own custom templates. Normally the basic joomla template tutorial which many would tend to follow would show you how to go about your template design but  after designing you may find out that your modules do not show titles even for the fact that you have commanded it to do so in  the joomla admin .

Normally you will get a code like this to display module ‘<jdoc:include type=”modules” name=”left” />’,  to get it to display module titles just replace it with this one ‘<jdoc:include type=”modules” name=”left” style=”xhtml” /> ‘

Notice that the only thing added there is only ‘style=”xhtml” ‘

Hello all, i just can’t explain why i am  so lazy to blog these days, there are so many things to blog about but let’s get down to business right away.

I know many people who run their sites on joomla would like to have a separate login page set up as a menu link as opposed to the normal login form appearing as a module, especially when you are using virtuemart. Well to do this is very simple.

Just login into your joomla admin > click on menu manager and try to set up a menu under the menu section you want > then afterwards choose type to link the menu to a type > choose “user” in the list and then choose “default login layout”  > Just publish your menu and you should be done by now.

Normally this works with virtuemart because by default, virtuemart is linked to joomla user database if you opted to make it the same.

Hello All,

There is no  other excuse for not blogging daily these days other than laziness. I have loads of useful articles to publish but i am sure i would pick up in the coming days.

Now lets get down to business;

Problem: After installing Oscommerce and selecting your default currency, you might find that the prices are rounded up to the nearest highest figure.

ie. if you set item price to £2.99, it rounds up to £3.00. Now, we do not want our customers to see our items as being too expensive.

Solution: Go to your admin > then go to Localization > then click on the default currency > click on edit > set the parameter “Decimal Places : 2″, make sure it is set to 2 decimal places. You can use this to adjust the other currencies also.

Please note that this applies to Oscommerce2 and may be different in Oscommerce3.

Hope this helps out!

Actually i just got back into dolphin community script again after abandoning it for a while, the latest version is dolphin 7 as at the time of this post. Though i am really impressed with all that has been done on the new version but there are still some bugs here and there that needs addressing but all the same it should serve it’s purpose to the full if you know how to work your way around it. One of the reasons i have decided to write more on Dolphin is due to information availability problem associated with it when compared to other community softwares.

For just a quick one, i know it might seem stupid but a lot of people who successfully install dolphin usually wonder how to manipulate the front page and especially to remove the news feed placed in the frontpage after installation.

Solution: After installation , simply log into your admin, then > click on  ”Builders” in the left hand menu > When it loads, click “Page Blocks” >  then select “home Page” > Once it opens , you would see active and inactive Blocks> Just drag “Boonex News” down to the inactive block and you are done. You can also use this system to modify your home page.

I haven’t worked with PHPBB for sometime now and recently i had to install and customise a phpbb forum for a client of mine who is trying to expand his site. remember there was an article in this blog on cache problem in phpbb. This can be found here. Well another thing  i would like you to take note of is the fact that after editing your work and purging the cache from the phpbb admin, you may still be having the problem of seeing the new changes and especially after editing CSS files .

SOLUTION: After editing your file and purging the cached page from the admin, if you still cannot see your changes, you may consider clicking on the Styles menu at the top > and then when it opens look in the left panel and click on themes > then you will see a list of the templates and the one you are using. > Click on”Refresh link” next to it and then go to board index again.

Refresh your page again and the changes should be made by now. If you are still having problems, delete your browsing history from your browser, refresh your page and you should be okay.