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Website Design and Development

I found a really good  list with many php (Free) Opensource CMS

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Posted by leosquarez On January - 12 - 2010 CMS Opensource Web Development

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While i was updating one of my server website how is running Joomla 1.0 i change the server from a Windows to a Unix server system.

  • Very important YOU HAVE TO BACK UP ALL YOUR FILES AND THE DATABASE

When i receive the new login, i uploaded all my files but i had this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘{’ in /web/htdocs/MYWEBSITE/home/configuration.php on line 1

To solve this problem you just have to:

  1. Delete from the server the “configuration.php” files
  2. Download the full package the last Joomla 1.0 version () i found that here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseView&release_id=6828
  3. Of course extract the dir
  4. Upload on the server the “configuration.php-dist” file and the “installation” directory
  5. Refresh the browser, and start the installation
  6. Before the installation start go to your mysql manager and (JUST AFTER BACKUP IT) delete the old table
  7. Procede with the istallation.. (host, user, pass, db name…)
  8. When the website is running again (and you delete the installation directory) back to your mysql admin and delete the new database and import the old one..

Done..

Any question leave a comment

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Posted by leosquarez On November - 12 - 2009 Joomla 1.0 Web Development

ie6All the web developer will agree with me saying that Internet Explorer is always the difficult browser from all the designer with.

A good web designer should test anything before resided on web with all the most recent browser (firefox safari crome opera… ect..)
and of course he should check in Internet Explorer in all the version.

While the modern (and much better) browser like firefox, crome, safari try to let you install all the times the new version, and with new version means a version that improve but still respect the HTML and CSS reading.
IE is popular for complete different view of the page for a different version of the Browser

IE in the last few years release different version of the browser, most popular IE6, IE7 and IE8, but the are complete different each other in displaying a page.

The biggest different in the different version are stuff like:

  • margin and padding (especially in list like UL, OL  and DL)
  • Alignment
  • Position
  • Float

So is a good trick to create a separate CSS for IE6 and most of the times for IE7 as well

to do that you just create a now css file and in the <head> tag specify a condition:
<!–[if IE]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer
<![endif]–>
<!–[if IE 6]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer 6
<![endif]–>
<!–[if IE 6]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer 6
<![endif]–>
<!–[if IE 7]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer 7
<![endif]–>
<!–[if gte IE 5]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer 5 and up
<![endif]–>
<!–[if lt IE 8]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer lower than 8
<![endif]–>
<!–[if lte IE 5.5]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer lower or equal to 5.5
<![endif]–>
<!–[if gt IE 6]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer greater than 6
<![endif]–>

Some designer check for IE5, but i believe is to small the percent how still does have this browser.
But how think IE 6 is not so common any more just check these data:

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

www.w3schools.com-screen-capture-2009-11-2-18-4-8

www.w3schools.com-screen-capture-2009-11-2-18-4-8

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Posted by leosquarez On November - 2 - 2009 Condition EI6

Add a link in your flash banner or files:

  • Convert your object in a button
  • Go to the action script editor
  • paste the code
    on (release) {
    getURL(”your-link”,”your-target”,”GET”);
    }

on your-link you can add a full path like:

http://www.leosquarez.com/leosquarez-service/

or a simple:

/leosquarez-service/

if you are in the same domain.

on your-target you can specify:

  • “_self” – Targets the window that the movie is in (MORE COMMON)
  • “_new” – Opens url in a new window
  • “_top” – Only useful in a framset, targets the top frameset
  • “_parent” – Targets parent window in a framset

So a examples could be:

on (release) {
getURL(”my-page.php”,”_self”,”GET”);
}

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Posted by leosquarez On October - 29 - 2009 Flash Web Development

Today i add a video in one of my client web site and i realise that the drop down menu was disappearing below the video.

The video embedding code was:

<object height=”340″ width=”560″>
<param name=”movie” value=”URL-VIDEO”>
<param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”>
<param name=”wmode” value=”opaque”>
<param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”><embed src=”URL-VIDEO” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” height=”WIDTH” width=”HEIGH”>
</object>

I realise that was a Z-INDEX issue (more info on z-index), i did check on the web for few solution.

First solution that i found was:

SWFObject, Flash and the z-index

This solution suggest to:

  • Set wmode=”opaque” combined with positioning
  • Wrap the object with a div with position: relative and set the object position: absolute.

CODE

#wrapper { position: relative; }
#overlay { position: absolute; }

-----
<script type="text/javascript">

   var flashvars = {};
   var params = { wmode: "opaque" };
   var attributes = {};

   swfobject.embedSWF("video.swf", "flash", "width", "height", "7",
                      "expressinstall.swf", flashvars, params, attributes);

</script>

-----

<object id="flashcontent" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="550" height="400">
   <param name="movie" value="movie.swf" />
   <param name="wmode" value="opaque" />

   <!--[if !IE]>-->
   <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="video.swf" width="550" height="400">
   <param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
   <!--<![endif]-->

      <p>Please update your Flash Player</p>

   <!--[if !IE]>-->
   </object>
   <!--<![endif]-->

</object>

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Posted by leosquarez On October - 1 - 2009 Web Development

adobe_illustrator-400-400If you are using Adobe Illustrator (.AI) often happen that you need and you need to convert text to outlines for press-ready vector artwork.

The big problem when you send files in a  printing house is the font. If you’ve used a family-face or typeface that your printing house doesn’t have, the result of the printing will print incorrectly.

This is why you’ll find that fonts within most vector logos (containing text) will have been converted to outlines, or paths.

This procedure means that the text will be no longer text – it has become a graphic, and so the text cannot be altered anymore.

So, how to convert text to outlines in Adobe Illustrator?

To convert text to outlines,

  1. go to Select/Select All.
    It doesn’t really matter if other graphic elements are selected.
  2. Go Type/Create Outlines.
    The text will become outlined and can’t be edited as text.

Now, all the text will be no longer editable and the line beneath the text has gone.

My suggest is to keep an editable copy of your document as an AI file before you convert text to outlines and save the file as an Illustrator EPS file. This is so that you can come back and edit it non-destructively later, instead of having to recreate the artwork with text again.

The text characters now have editable paths, or outlines, around them – they are no longer text, but vector graphics, and can be edited as such.

Information taken from a friend the site: http://www.graphic-design-employment.com/adobe-illustrator-how-to-convert.html

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Posted by leosquarez On September - 15 - 2009 Adobe Illustrator Web Development

Design and Creation of WebSites

  • Professional web planning.
  • Construction of online projects.
  • Search engine optimisation (SEO).
  • Building corporate blogs and dynamic web sites.
  • Projects in html, asp, php, javascript, mysql, flash and numerous other applications.

ZillerLeosquarez Partners with Ziller

Leosquarez is happy to announce a new partnership with  leading online marketing and ecommerce web design company, Ziller.

Ziller works with some of the Australian’s largest corporations to produce amazing results across the board.
The new partnership will allow Leosquarez to advance their e-Commerce web design as well as enhance online marketing skills to better serve our customers.

Contact me at: leo@ziller.com.au

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Posted by leosquarez On August - 28 - 2009 Leosquarez Service Web Development

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