After installing VirtueMart on a Joomla 2.5 site, it should occur in the Components menu in the Joomla! backend. In my case, it didn’t show up. The problem can be caused by the Xmap – Virtuemart plugin not being enabled. Solution: Go to the Extensions menu and then select Plug-in Manager. In the filter box, […]
OpenSSL on Ubuntu can be vulnerable to the Heartbleed Bug. Not all versions of OpenSSL are affected though. OpenSSL version 1.0.1 to 1.0.1f are vulnerable. OpenSSL version 1.0.1g are not vulnerable. OpenSSL branches 1.0.0 and 0.9.8 are not vulnerable. To fix this issue on Ubuntu systems: Check your OpenSSL version to see if it is vulnerable […]
When configuring Microsoft Windows Live Mail (WLM) with an IMAP email account, you should set which folders on the IMAP server that should be used for Sent, Drafts, Deleted and Junk email. This is done by going into the setup for your email account in Windows Live Mail, edit properties for the account and select the […]
When setting up a Joomla site for multilanguage you need to set a default menu item for each language. However, sometimes it is not possible to change a default menu item currently set to language "All". The error message displayed is: "Warning Save failed with the following error: The Language parameter for this menu item […]
I recently bought a Plantronics Voyager Legend headset to use with my Samsung Galaxy Note II phone. It worked fine for a day or two, then I started to experience poor sound quality. Especially the person I was talking to had real trouble hearing me. Restarting bluetooth in the Samsung or restarting the Plantronics headset […]
Selection lists in the toolbar might also display things like "advanced.h1" and so on. The cause of the problem seems to be translation files for the JCE editor of an older version are read only which prevented them from being updated to the newer version. Solution: Uninstall JCE editor. Go to the menu Extensions -> […]
To migrate an osCommerce webshop to PrestaShop 1.5 I used the migration module from Presto Changeo. It worked just as specified, importing categories, products and customers from a running osCommerce webshop. One important thing before you start is that the module will empty all your existing customers, categories and products in your PrestaShop so make […]
This example shows how an image (img) can be vertically and horizontally centered inside a div. At the same time it illustrates how to resize the image to fit inside the div. A live view of this code can be seen here. <html> <head> <title>Vertically aligned img in div</title> <style […]
If you need to customize the blog category layout in Joomla 1.5 you do like this: Create the following subfolders to your template directory: mkdir -p templates/yourtemplate/html/com_content/category Copy blog.php and blog_item.php from Joomla core: cp -p components/com_content/view/category/tmpl/blog.php templates/yourtemplate/html/com_content/category cp -p components/com_content/view/category/tmpl/blog.php templates/yourtemplate/html/com_content/category Customize blog.php and blog_item.php in the components/com_content/view/category/tmpl/blog.php templates/yourtemplate/html/com_content/category folder to your needs. These modified files will […]
If a div is set to width (or height) 100% and margins or padding are added, it will be wider than 100% causing the scrollbars to appear in the browser. For example like this (click here to view live sample): <html> <head> <style type="text/css"> body, html { width: 100%; […]