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If you are considering uploading videos to youtube , then please consider Leawo free mp4 converter. There are loads you can do with this if you go to the pro version.

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Hello all,

It’s me again, i just want to quickly call your attention to issue in drupal custom template where the new custom templates does not load javascripts. One little mistake to make when creating a new drupal custom template is to forget some little codes that call things up on your template. i would advice most people to look at the structure and codes in the original default templates that ships with drupal and take examples from there.

Recently i worked on a new template and found that when i installed a code editor module to my client’s site , it refused to load but after some few research i found that i forgot to include ” <?php print $scripts ?>" in the head section of the template, once this was done, i was able to view it, now there may be some complex problems that would arise with this even if the code is visible in the header, please refer to this thread in the drupal forum and see if it will solve your problem.

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Hello all, sorry i haven’t really blogged on scripts for a long time , please accept my apology and let’s start again by me introducing you to PHPMOTION video script, this is a completely free open source video blogging script, not only that it can take images, audios etc . The only problem with this script is just the fact that it requires a little bit more money to pay for the hosting because of the server requirements , it is best run on a VPS or  dedicated server anyway.

Recently i tested it for a client for the first time and i am really impressed and as usual over the coming weeks, a lot would be written up on phpmotion free video script on this blog.

Please read an extract from the site below.

“PHPmotion Media Sharing CMS – PHPmotion is a free video sharing software that also has support for other types of media such as audio/mp3 sharing. The Content Managent System or (media cms application) will allow you to create and run your very own Video Sharing website, Music Sharing Site, Picture Sharing Site. With very little knowledge required you can now have a website just like youtube.com , dailymotion.com, veoh, hi5 and best of all, its 100% free to download and use.”

Free Video Script

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This is just a quick one , if you are having problem accessing your database through  phpmyadmin on a server running a cpanel platform, please make sure you are not logged in as the root, make sure you are not logged in through WHM.

Another very important note to take is that even if you use the same password for your WHM and cpanel login, it will always log you in as a WHM user and you would not be able to access your database using PHPMYADMIN, in order to avoid this situation please make sure the two passwords are not the same.

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Recently another client of mine was having so many issues with his joomla site and this was really really driving him mad. The major problem was his host that keeps turning off his site due to the fact that it is causing overloading to the system on a shared hosting. Please note that this same topic was previously written about in this post here but this is just an update on a related issue.

Problem: Please see a list of problems that you may be experiencing with joomla server overload:

1. My site loads too slowly

2.It gives you an error page when it loads

3. I’m regularly switched off by my host and i have been asked to turn on my cache before my site would be put back online

4. My site loads into a white dis organized page (first check that you are not importing articles from a microsoft word)

5. I have been warned by my host that my site is using too much resources.

Solutions:

1. I would recommend that you get rid of some un-necessary modules you dont need and delete them entirely from the site and server as these may be calling up some database queries even if they are disabled ( A case of bad programming).

2. Another thing is to go to your hosting provider and check if you need to move to a bigger server space either a VPS or Dedicated server, i know most hosting companies would like to push you to do this but make sure you are seeking the best advice. Check your Bandwidth limit used up monthly and your remaining disk space and then determine if you will really heed their advice and try to get a second and third opinion from an expert in the related field, you can do this by simply visiting hosting forums online and asking questions. Most forum members are usually very helpful and would offer you the best and truthful advice they can give.

3. If your case is the case where you are using up too much resources, please take note, if you are on a shared hosting or VPS, please tell your hosting provider to  help you delete your trash bin, usually you would not have access to this trash bin , you may think you have deleted all your trash from cpanel admin but really that is not the case. A helpful hosting admin was able to dig around the problem and found that my client had 18 GB worth of trash not deleted. Once this was done, the site’s speed was up again and there was little issue with resource. so it is really advisable to let your host make sure all the trash has been deleted.

Thanks and watch out for more update.

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I am actually tired of apologizing all the time to my readers for lack of constant updates on this site. Please bear with me as i have a lot to handle these days but just like i always do, let’s get down the business straight away.
I dont know why but me and a client of mine got frustrated with joomla recently when it started loading partial pages and loading pages with the template css missing and also calling up templates and modules that has already been deleted. We did a lot of research in this field and after coming up with no tangible answer to fix the problem right away and of which the last option was to re-install joomla again, we decided to wave goodbye to it and move to another CMS.  A programmer demanded a large sum of money we couldn’t afford to help fix this issue but we were quite concerned that the problem may develope again in the future as we are convinced it’s a bug problem with joomla.
Drupal offers a very good platform and very stable with less module and bad programming issues you get with joomla. Though the graphic user  interface (GUI) and editor in joomla are superb and also the ability to install modules and configure them easily are better in joomla, drupal on the other hand offers you the ability to be independent and develope your site to your taste. if you ask me, i would say Drupal is actually a bit for advanced users.

Well just to cut the long story short, if you find yourself in our shoes and would like to move to Drupal, migrating to drupal from joomla is as easy as can be, it takes just few minutes depending on your database size.

To do this please follow this link  here and if you have any more problems please let us know. I decided to post this here because a lot of discussions may confuse people on the best approach but i find this approach to be the best so far.

Hope this helps out!

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Hello all,

Recently after i installed Dolphin 7 on a shared hosting, a lot of bugs came up and i tried my best to solve the ones i can , the major bugs were video and sound not loading, email not being sent out even after configuring a cron job very well etc .

Anyway after talking to my hosting company hostgator (highly recommended) , i was told that Dolphin 7 cannot run on a shared hosting but would need a dedicated server. Please read the extract here from the hostgator site.

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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” ‘

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