Category Archives: Joomla

Here you will find some information that I found usefull with my Joomla sites

New Joomla Website Launched: North Wales Railway Circle

We launched a new website today for North Wales Railway Circle. North Wales Railway Circle was formed in 1971 by a group of like-minded people to establish a society for those interested in all aspects of railways. Our underlying aim … Continue reading

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Force scrollbar on short pages

When you have a design that does not fill the full screen you sometimes get the problem where the page seems to shift when you navigate between long and short pages. This is because of the scroll bar on the … Continue reading

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Calendar pop-up link position / not showing in Joomla

I Had an issue in IE7, IE8, IE9, IE10 when I click on the calendar icon the calendar does not appear. I then scrolled to the top of the page and there it was. So the issue in Joomla to … Continue reading

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Joombah jobsboard joomfish translation

Hi I have a dual language site using Joomfish. I wanted to translate the fields that are kept in the back end. I presume it will work for any of these fields that are stored in the backend / database. … Continue reading

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Joomla: Edit login module

If you want to edit the joomla log-in module you can go to and edit: /modules/mod_login/tmpl/default.php In my case I wanted to remove the option to register (without disabling the ability to register from Global configuration. Remove or comment the … Continue reading

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Joombah Jobs Board Component for Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 1.6

JobSeekers’ Features Front-End JBJobs has all the necessary features to run a successful Human Resource database directly onto our System by using our component. Below are only some feature highlights of JBJobs If you don’t see a feature you are … Continue reading

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Joombah: Set salary to accept more characters and text

In Joombah you can set the salary for a job to say: Salary: 1000,00 per month I needed to say: Salary: 1000,00-2000,00 per month This is how I did it: 1. I changed components/com_jbjobs/views/employer/tmpl/editjob.php from: <input class=”inputbox required” type=”text” name=”salary” … Continue reading

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Joombah: Allow the employer to set the expiry date from the front end?

Go to Joomla Backend > Components > Joombah > Dashboard > Global Configuration > Components Settings > Set “Free Mode” > NO > Save Go to Membership plans (Left menu) > Un-publish all the plans except the “Free Membership” > … Continue reading

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Nice Social Bookmark – no img width and height attributes

Website producers often include images on their pages badly, creating accessibility issues for visitors and increasing page load times. It is important to include the width and height attributes in each image tag.  The mark-up is valid without a height … Continue reading

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Joomla Joomfish flag has no image size assigned

To comply to W3C standards images must have height and width sizes allocated. If you want to add that to the images you can add it in: modules\mod_jflanguageselection\tmpl\namesplusimages.php around line 121 add width and height as below. $outString .=’<img src=”‘ … Continue reading

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