Affordaink Continuous Ink Supply Systems (CISS) - http://www.affordaink.ph/

For reliable and cheap continuous inks (ink flow supply systems) products visit this latest web project, Affordaink Continuous Ink Supply Systems (CISS), at http://www.affordaink.ph/

Branches can be found all over Metro Manila easily accessible in Greenhills-Virra Mall, St. Francis Square-Ortigas, Market! Market!-Taguig, and a few more branches.

Joomla (CMS) seminar in Ortigas, Pasig on August 22, 2010

Kindly visit and register at TipidPC Events at http://www.tpcevents.org/

CMS- Content Management SystemDrupal, Joomla, Wordpress, and other web-based CMS


Date: Aug 22, 2010 - Sunday
Time: 2:00pm-6:00pm
Speaker: TPC Events Team
Venue: Roofdeck 23 Capinpin Place Capinpin St. San Antonio Village, Ortigas, Pasig City, Philippines
Topics: CMS and other web technologies used for websites, intranets and portals, photo and media galleries, shopping cart, forums, blogs, etc. Primary focus on Joomla.

See you!

Visit also http://www.jeromeesperanza.com

Learning Management Systems (LMS)

http://php.opensourcecms.com/scripts/show.php?catid=6&cat=Learning%20Management

Joomla hands-on training, Quezon City, Philippines

Conducted yet another comprehensive Joomla hands-on training last Dec. 12-13. Participants are already Joomla users so the sessions were adjusted for an advanced coverage of the topic include even Joomla security, SEO, analytics, and more.

If interested for such training in Metro Manila, which is very accessible (being located within the Cubao, Quezon City area), contact ACE I.T. Learning Solutions.

Apache, MySQL and PHP (AMP) for MAC = MAMP

Got an Adobe newsletter this week featuring MAMP which is an acronym that stands for Mac, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Article here: http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/december2009/articles/article2/index.html?trackingid=FBTRR#item3

Just spreading the word...

To note:

"Be aware that the current WAMP installer includes PHP 5.3.0. (to date)... Joomla and Drupal are not yet compatible with PHP 5.3.0. WordPress is compatible with PHP 5.3.0, but you need to make a small edit to the php.ini file to manually set the time zone for your location.

In Drupal, the following error occurs when you run the installation wizard:

Deprecated: Function ereg() is deprecated in C:\wamp\www\drupal\includes\file.inc on line 895

If you are using WAMP, you can address this error by downloading the latest 5.2.x version of PHP. Click the WAMP icon in the system tray and choose PHP > Version > Get More. The current MAMP installer ships with PHP 5.2.10, so this issue does not affect MAMP and Mac users."

AMP on!

Joomla Website Security and Maintenance Training (IFES.org.ph)

Conducted a 2-day training on Joomla Website Security and Maintenance for IFES.org.ph (http://www.ifes.org.ph) staff with primary purpose of web backup and recovery processes.

Tools used and recommended:

• FileZilla
• Dreamweaver
• MySQL GUI Tools (administrator)
• Google Web tools and services (Optimizer, Analytics, etc.)
• XAMPP/WampServer
  

Cool office, lots of food :D, great company! Hope to work with you guys again...

E-Commerce Website project, review of CMS...

Am doing heavy research for an e-commerce pet project these days... to date the ff. are noteworthy:

Magento

Magento is an interesting platform for your e-commerce website. It's modular architecture and unprecedented flexibility means your business is no longer constrained by your eCommerce platform. Magento is total control.

PrestaShop

PrestaShop is professional e-Commerce shopping cart software that you can download and use for free. It supports a lot of interesting features for a total control of your e-Commerce shop.

Drupal e-commerce

Drupal e-Commerce is a package of modules to let you create your own online store. It is totally free, open source, rich featured and flexible. The system can use PayPal, Authorize.net, eWAY, C.O.D. or you can roll your own.

Zen-Cart

Zen Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. The ecommerce web site design program is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think ecommerce web design could be and should be done differently.

CubeCart

CubeCart is an "out of the box" ecommerce shopping cart software solution which has been written to run on servers that have PHP & MySQL support. With CubeCart you can quickly setup a powerful online store which can be used to sell digital or tangible products to new and existing customers all over the world.

osCommerce

osCommerce is an Open Source online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved.

VirtueMart

VirtueMart is not a CMS but an Open Source E-Commerce solution to be used together with Joomla! (and Mambo). Joomla! and VirtueMart are written in PHP and made easy for use in a PHP/MySQL environment.

FatFreeCart

FatFreeCart is a free shopping cart developed by the team behind E-junkie shopping cart. It works inside your website, your blog and will even work from your MySpace page. It is simply a copy-paste cart and does not require you to register with us or install anything. It works with PayPal and Google Checkout. It supports product variations, shipping, handling and sales tax.

More issues to follow... am sure... :D

First Issue with PrestaShop, an E-Commerce CMS

http://www.prestashop.com/
Installer: prestashop 1.2.3

Problems:

- Stuck on Step 4, cannot proceed to Step 5; entering sitename/admin displays the login page but with below login error
- Installation > Step 4: Error: prestashop employee does not exist, or bad password

Checks done:

- PhpMyAdmin, ps_employee is empty despite having entered (and re-entered during re-installs) an admin e-mail/account

Fix:

- By avoided uploading any logo image, Step 5 follows through
- Logo change can easily be done manually in /img directory (logo.jpg)

More to follow as project progresses... Share some points here :D thanks!

A Drupal 6 Seminar, Ortigas, Pasig... more details at TPCEvents.Org

Drupal Seminar (Web Content Management System)
Date: Aug 23, 2009 - Sunday
Time: 9:00am - 1:00 pm
Speaker: Jerome A. Esperanza
Description:

Introduction

· Overview of Content Management Systems (CMS)
· Apache, MySQL and PHP Services as Requirements to Drupal
· Installing WAMPServer or XAMPP
· Brief Overview of Drupal

Drupal Proper

Installation

· Basic configurations (Frontend)

· Database

Administering the backend

· Content Management (comments, content types, settings, RSS publishing, taxonomy and categorization
· Blocks (content appears in your site\'s sidebars and other regions)
· Menus (navigation menus, primary links and secondary links, etc.)
· Modules (default and installation of added modules)
· Themes (installation of new themes and basic customization)
· User management (administering access rules, permissions, roles, user settings, users and user groups)
· Site configuration (Actions, Administration theme, Clean URLs, Date and time, Error reporting, File system, Image toolkit, Input formats, Logging and alerts, Performance, Site information, Site maintenance
· Reports (Recent log entries, View \'access denied\' errors (403s), View \'page not found\' errors (404s), Available updates of installed modules and themes, Status report)


Back-ups, Recovery, and Restoration

· Files and folders
· Database

Other Topics (Optional Topics, depending on time availability)

· Basic Search Optimization and Other Tips and Techniques
· Dreamweaver, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Drupal: Basic Tips and Techniques
· Firefox Add-ons and Other Tools for Drupal and Web Developers
· Web Analytics: Drupal and Google Analytics
Venue: Roofdeck 23 Capinpin Place Capinpin St. San Antonio Village Ortigas, Pasig, Philippines

More details at TPCEvents.Org

Images (or Logos) in the Weblinks for Joomla

The default web links core component of Joomla unfortunately has no option of assigning or uploading images or logos assigned respectively to each weblink item. I am running a organizational site that has a lot member of schools and institutions and having each of its member logos displayed alongside (or somewhere) beside its url or web link item seems a cool thing as. To date, it seems this is not a possible option yet for the current Joomla weblinks core component. Further googling seems to prove that.

Anyway, one component seem to serve that purpose, plus a few gem of layouts!

Try Simple Lists component, check it out here:

• About the developer and component http://opensource.jira.nl/projects/simplelists
• Demo: http://joomla1.demo.jira.nl/index.php?option=com_simplelists&view=simplelist&layout=toggle&category_id=34&Itemid=65

One setback only, you had to veer away from the weblinks component, as this might confuse your not so Joomla-proficient-web admin.