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Joomla First Time User – Help Appreciated?

admin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:40:18 +0000

Hey there. This is my first time setting up my own Joomla website. Any help is apprieciated!

My Questions are:

- How do you actually buy a Template. I know theres plenty of sites selling them, but how does it work. Can I just do a one off payment and then download the Template to host via FTP?

- How much can you alter a template? Like this for example: http://joomla.siteground.com/index.php?mos_change_template=siteground58

Could I make ‘Easy customization’ and ‘Free themes’ appear in the one column so all the news is visable without it being cut off.
Could I change the Green font and lines to a different color?
Could I add a subnavigation? So when I hover/click something in the top right navigation, there is pages WITHIN those pages. So if you had multimedia, you could have Music and Videos as pages within.

Sorry for all the ‘could i’, but basically I want to know how much I can alter and customise the templates.

- Thanks, any other useful bits of information are welcome
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Will the Joomla 1.5 User Discover the Perfect Platform For a Website?

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:25:29 +0000

Perhaps, but it probably depends on what is required. If you want a simple one-page sales site with a contact page and a terms and conditions page thrown in, then Joomla 1.5 is overkill. But if you want a site that will continually grow over time to become important in the eyes of the search engines, then Joomla 1.5 could be perfect for you.

Joomla was born on August 17th 2005, though the name didn’t actually come into use until September 1st of that same year. The name is the English spelling of the Arabic word which means “all together.” Joomla 1.5 is certainly all together. It is a significant upgrade from its predecessor versions, and well worth checking out.

Joomla is a content management system (CMS). It is open source software, meaning that it is free to use and change as you like. There is a large and very enthusiastic Joomla community that has built up around the software. The Internet is teeming with Joomla tutorials, Joomla templates and just about everything else to do with Joomla. The Joomla 1.5 user is certainly not alone!

Joomla comes out of the box all ready to go. It has all the features you will need to build stunning websites, but you are not stuck with just the basics. The Joomla software is designed to allow modular extensions, which add functionality. It’s a bit like the plugins that certain other software types use.

Joomla extensions are little mini-programs in effect that specialise in certain areas. They extend the reach of the basic software in all kinds of directions. Because the software is licensed under a General Public Licence, and is also cross-platform, the overall reach for the Joomla 1.5 user is truly immense.

Joomla 1.5 is also a very stable CMS. It is very robust too, making it ideal for large portal type websites. However, it can just as easily serve up a small five page site too. Nothing is really too big or too large for this amazing software.

So, is Joomla the perfect platform for a website? It certainly comes close if not actually so. Its main competitors are good, but in some ways not as good, and not as flexible and adaptive either. The official Joomla community forum has almost one and a half million posts. That’s a vibrant community, and it wouldn’t be so if the software was seriously lacking in some respect.

There is one slight drawback for the Joomla 1.5 user however, and that’s the initial steep learning curve. Compared to the popular WordPress blogging software, for example, Joomla does require a bit of extra effort to get to grips with it. Once that has been mastered, any comparison with blogging software fades into obscurity. This is a powerful, robust and serious platform for any website. Is it the perfect platform? It very nearly is!
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What CMS to use for a photo printing website?

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:19:43 +0000

I am about to start a photo printing website where people can upload their photos and I can access, print and courier them. I also plan to use coupon codes and referral IDs for customers that bring other customers.
What CMS should I use? I am quite familiar with Wordpress and Joomla. Please suggest a good, free CMS.
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WordPress For Affiliates

admin — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 03:16:12 +0000

In many ways WordPress is an affiliate marketers dream come true. Besides it being free and the fact that the search engines seem to love WordPress sites (meaning lots of traffic for you) the flexibility of WordPress is what makes it so great as a tool for affiliate marketing.

In the old days of static HTML websites, any tiny change you wanted to make to your site could take hours. For example if you had an affiliate banner ad at the top of each page of your website, and you wanted to swap it for another one, you would have to go through each page in turn carefully making the change. It could take hours. WordPress for affiliates makes life so much easier though because now you simply change one tiny detail and the banners change right across your site.

Once an affiliate site has been built with WordPress it’s not just easy to change your banner adverts. You can change the layout of your website very easily so it is possible to try out dozens of different themes to see which ones actually convert best for you.

You can also change the structure of your affiliate site to see what arrangement of articles actually encourages the most people possible to click one of your links and buy something.

And finally WordPress for affiliates works so well because of the broad range of plugins that are available which can significantly help you to increase your affiliate sales. Examples include plugins that will automatically insert Clickbank or Amazon product listings on your site without you having to do anything.
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Chakras, Galaxies and Black Holes

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:57:26 +0000

Scientific researchers at Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, using sophisticated scientific equipment, have shown that subtle energy has the properties of an electromagnetic current when flowing through acupuncture meridians but takes on the properties of coherent particle streams, similar to laser light, when projected out from the body through the hands of master Qigong healers who cure diseases by beaming their energy into the patient’s body. There are important chakras on the palms of the hands. To understand how we can beam energy (which is manifested as coherent light) from chakras, some understanding of the structure and dynamics of chakras would be useful.

How do Chakras Form?

Barbara Brennan, former NASA engineer and now world-renowned energy healer, describes chakras as “swirling cone-shaped vortexes in the human energy field.” From the perspective of plasma metaphysics, chakras (or “wheels” in Sanskrit) can be considered to be composed of two components: one, a magnetized node and two, a rotating cone structure or vortex that forms in the low density magnetic plasma that subtle bodies are composed of.

In laboratory experiments, it has recently been realized that a localized source at a fixed frequency excites a cone of radiation in a plasma crystal. The apex of the cone will be pointed towards the source and the angle of the cone is determined by its spin frequency. Excitations from fast moving particles in a plane below or next to a single-layered plasma crystal give rise to these cones. According to plasma cosmology, rotating galaxies in space are formed when filamentary currents pinch. This can happen when two currents move towards or cross each other. Dr David Tansely, a radionics specialist, says that, “The seven major chakras are formed at points where standing lines of light (or meridians) cross each other 21 times. The 21 minor chakras are located at points where the energy strands cross 14 times.” Based on these theories, we can infer how chakras develop in subtle bodies (composed of magnetic plasma or ‘magma’).

When meridians cross in our subtle bodies, they pinch each other, forming “knots” and collapse as compressed nodes of intense magnetic fields that pulsate at fixed frequencies. Super particles and objects are attracted to the magnetized nodes and are sucked into the subtle bodies at very high speeds using helical paths. This dynamical behavior of the incoming particles and the pulsations of the node excite cone structures on the surface of the body. The plasma of charged particles (known popularly in the metaphysical literature as “qi”, “prana” or “kundalini”), from the ionized environment, spirals into the nodes, swirling the magnetic plasma on the surface of the compact subtle body. It is then absorbed into the chakra and its energy is then transferred to various parts of the subtle body through the network of meridians (or filamentary currents) within the body.

Structure of Chakras

According to scientific researchers, a complicated elastic double vortex structure emanates from the excited region in a plasma crystal. Each region splits into an outgoing and inward-going vortex. The wave-fronts are circular near the source. This resembles how experimental metaphysicists, such as Charles Leadbeater and Brennan, have described and illustrated the spinal chakras – which come in pairs and have circular wave-fronts. A tube or channel connects the outward-facing chakra at the front of the body to the chakra behind the body – which faces in the opposite direction.

According to scientific researchers, the cones in plasma crystals possess an interesting multiple structure of nested cones. Nested cones within chakras in our magnetic plasma bodies have been observed by Brennan. According to Brennan, chakras appear “to be nested within each other like nesting glasses. Each chakra on each higher layer extends out farther in the auric field (to the edge of each auric layer) and is slightly broader than the one below it”. Each vortex metabolizes an energy that resonates with its particular spin frequency.

Alignment of Chakras

It is interesting to note that the cone structures of chakras are positioned at different angles in illustrations in the metaphysical literature. As noted earlier, the angle correlates with the frequency of the radiation source. It is well-known in metaphysics that not only are the spinal chakras positioned at different angles but that each chakra spins at a different frequency. The axis of each cone is aligned with the magnetic field generated by the node so that the apex of the cone of the chakra, which faces the central channels in the subtle body, has a different magnetic polarity from the base of the cone, which faces the environment. If we look at the central channel in the subtle body, the nodes would be distributed along the knots in the central channels at discrete intervals. This agrees well with metaphysical observations (and is consistent with the behavior of magnetic plasma, as noted in studies of plasma crystals). According to Brennan, “Their tips point into the main vertical power current and their open ends extend to the edge of each layer of the field they are located in.”

Absorption and Emission of Energy from Chakras

According to Brennan, each swirling vortex of energy appears to suck or entrain energy from the universal energy field. Chakras connect to the nodes of meridians which are areas of intense magnetic fields. They are therefore able to attract high-energy charged super particles and objects. The particles, after absorption, course through the meridians to distribute energy to various parts of the body – similar to what happens in the heart-lung and circulatory systems in the physical-biomolecular body in terms of distributing oxygen to the cells in the body. When particles in subtle bodies are energized they begin to respond to their environments. Leadbeater explains that one of the functions of chakras is to calibrate (or entrain) the frequencies of particles in order for them to be responsive to particular frequencies of radiations in the environment. Brennan also observes that the direction in which a chakra spins is important. When the chakra is spinning clockwise it is absorbing energy. When spinning anticlockwise – the flow of energy is in the reversed direction. In other words, it is emitting energy rather than absorbing.

Focused Beams of Light from Rotating Galaxies

According to scientific researchers, an ordered magnetic field plays an essential role in jet formation from a rotating accretion disk in an ionized environment. The process of forming jets (or focused beams of light) is thought to depend on how magnetic fields behave when they are swirled around by an accretion disk. Jets occur in cosmic plasma. As far back as 1918, astronomer H D Curtis noticed a jet from the centre of the galaxy M87, describing it as a “curious straight ray” emanating from the galaxy. Taking the form of a huge flashlight beam in space, a jet of electrons and protons traveling at near the speed of light can be seen in NASA’s image of the galaxy. The jet is a highly collimated plasma beam (i.e. like coherent laser light). Energetic astrophysical jets, with velocities approaching the speed of light, are seen on a variety of scales emerging from active galactic nuclei and young stars. It is thought that they result from the dynamics of accretion disks rotating around a large mass. The energy radiates from charged particles that are moving in a curved orbit (typically around a magnetic field aligned with the jet).

Focused Beams of Light from Rotating Chakras

The chakra is a rotating accretion disk on a relatively large compact subtle body. We also know (from the above discussion) that the nodes of chakras are locations of intense magnetic fields and charged particles move in helical or spiral paths around this field. Magnetic fields in plasma move with it. The effect of the movement of the particles, plunging into the subtle body at high speeds, is to effectively swirl the intense magnetic field around the axis of the cone of the chakra. This causes the magnetic field to twist, rise and eject-out as a jet of collimated light. The acceleration mechanism for most jets is magneto-hydrodynamic. (Magneto-hydrodynamics provides a general framework to study the activities of magnetic plasma.) The jet being issued will be parallel to the spin axis of the chakra.

Jets or directed beams of light have been seen in photographs taken during events where subtle energetic practices take place (for example: Reiki, Qigong and Christian “Praise and Worship”). There are also Hindu, Taoist, Buddhist and Christian images showing jets of light issuing-out from the palms of saints or deities. There are important chakras (and acupoints) on the palms of the hands. The frequency and spin rate of the chakra would have a direct effect in determining the energy and coherence of the beam. One of the seers of the Fatima apparitions of “Mary”, “Lucia”, revealed that during one of the apparitions, “Mary” opened her hands and “rays of light” issued from them.

This may be done simply by reversing the normal direction of the chakra spin (so that energy is emitted rather than absorbed) and increasing the rotational speed of the chakra in the palm (by mentally focusing on the specific chakra or acupoint in the palm of the hand). Jets may also be issued from other chakras or acupoints – for example from the heart chakra. For example, when ‘Jesus’ appeared to Saint Faustina, two beams of light issued from his heart – one beam was blue and the other was red. Interestingly, jet formations in cosmic objects such as galaxies also show two beams of light – one blue and the other red!

Black Holes and Chakras

According to scientists, black holes also issue jets. In fact the galaxy M87 (cited above) which issues jets, is suspected to harbor a black hole in its nucleus. (The black hole is then analogous to the node and the galaxy to the cone structure of the chakra.) This is surprising because, so far as we know, the strong gravitational fields of black holes absorb energy – letting nothing to escape. (Small black holes, though, give out Hawking radiation.) If we use the same explanation as we did for chakras, this may be because of the direction of the spin of the accretion disks around black holes. Does this mean that if the direction of the spin of the accretion disk of a rotating (“Kerr”) black hole is reversed it will start ejecting energy instead of absorbing? Black holes with highly energetic jets spin the fastest according to scientists.

If we further apply what we have learnt about the structure of chakras to black holes, we would expect black holes to come in pairs. Each black hole would then be connected by a tube (popularly called a “worm hole”) which connects to another black hole in another part of our universe. This worm hole may be long or very short – so that there is a double vortex structure (like in chakras) connected by a short tube – giving rise to jets that eject in opposite directions from astrophysical objects. Astrophysical jets that emanate from opposite directions of astrophysical objects have been seen. We would also expect black holes to reside within all galaxies as they are simply entry points into the network or web of “meridians” (in this case filamentary currents) that transfer energy from one point to another, throughout the universe.

To carry the analogy with chakras further, this would imply that black holes and galaxies are formations in an invisible subtle body – the subtle body of our universe already discussed in the author’s article Acupuncture Meridians and the Cosmic Spider Web. This also suggests that this subtle body is composed of (dark) magnetic plasma. We are living inside the subtle body of this universe – on a planet that is sitting on the edge of one of its chakras – a chakra we call the Milky Way.

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The Meaning Behind Colors

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:23:32 +0000

As we endure the mood of others for both good and bad, we also endure the mood deriving from colors for both good and bad. Colors are the visual manifestation of moods placed on objects. To bear this out, notice what Jason O’Connor observed in 2005 from the article “How to Choose Your Website Colors”:

Yellow:

Positive: Caution, brightness, intelligence, joy, organization, Spring time

Negative: Criticism, laziness, or cynicism

Blue:

Positive: Tranquility, love, acceptance, patience, understanding, cooperation, comfort, loyalty and security

Negative: Fear, coldness, passivity and depression

Orange:

Positive: Steadfastness, courage, confidence, friendliness, and cheerfulness, warmth, excitement and energy

Negative: Ignorance, inferiority, sluggishness and superiority

Purple:

Positive: Royalty, sophistication, religion

Negative: Bruised or foreboding

Green:

Positive: Mon?y, health, food, nature, hope, growth, freshness, soothing, sharing, and responsiveness

Negative: Envy, greed, constriction, guilt, jealousy and disorder

Black:

Positive: Dramatic, classy, committed, serious

Negative: Evil, death, ignorance, coldness

White:

Positive: Pure, fresh, easy, cleanliness or goodness

Negative: Blind, winter, cold, distant

From the above list of color associations, can you see how the descriptions for the colors would change according to where you live? The descriptions (associated with colors as illustrated above) are subjective to change and may differ for each culture and subculture across the world.

Even though red was not mentioned, studies have shown that it is the love-hate color. Even in the animal kingdom, studies show that bugs flash their red body parts to warn their enemies.

We react to colors and associate them to memories, objects, people, and places. In part, this may have something to do with how colors throw off wavelengths. Environmentally speaking, we can’t see sound waves, but we can hear them. Normally, we can’t see heat waves, but we feel them. With color waves, we don’t hear or feel them, but we see them. There are other considerations we need to remember about colors too.

Colors have a voice. James Stockton, the author of Designer’s Guide to Color (1984) wrote: “The many psychological aspects of color often seen more emotional and personal than scientific and determining agreement in reactions to colors is sometimes difficult. . . The ‘voice’ of a color depends largely on the colors that are place next to it. . .” The expression of the “voice” of colors really appeals to me, because this is what I see too.

If the colors could speak, they would. Colors are wavelengths; we just can’t hear them. Again, colors do make sound and do have a voice, we just can’t hear them. This is why, our color choices for our home and d?cor, our cars, and clothing speak volumes about us. We are compatible with the sound waves emanating from our choice the colors that surround us.

Colors are used as non-verbal communication in every aspect of our lives whether we realize it or not. Sometimes the color expressions are so powerful that the influence of color can be louder than the spoken word. (Revised 2/16/2006)

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Can you help me to get free wordpress theme?

admin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:24:12 +0000

can you help me to get free wordpress theme for my anime website.

http://www.animebygirl.com

i need:
>dark theme(really really dark for all columns)
>with 3 columns
>i find a lot of wordpress theme on google but no one i like.

help me ya!

thanks

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Can someone please email me at tssdan@gmail.com and set up the Drupal or Joomla CMS for me? I will give all.

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:24:39 +0000

…the information about the server and access to set up the PHP/MySQL databases

Thanks,
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Advantages of Joomla CMS Templates for your Website

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:40:38 +0000

CMS is friendly software used for managing the content of web design projects. You can also use CMS for keeping your documents and sharing them with your colleagues. For instance some information of your company is stored by means of CMS. So, each of your colleagues can add, change or update the content of your company’s web site, its images and audio files. Here and now we see that CMS is acknowledged to be a necessary tool for managing web site content.

CMS helps to separate design of web site from its content. It means designer develops a web site and gives it to its owner or manager who can fill a certain design with different content. If necessary the content of web site, its images and graphics can be easily edited without intervention into design of web site. All changes become visible as soon as you make them. (Don’t forget to reload page after making changes). Even if you are not an expert of HTML coding, you can easily manage the content of your web site yourself.

There is a wide range of CMS’s available for use. Some of them are free like Joomla, WebGUI, Bricolage, Mambo and some of them are commercial ones like Bitrix, Drupal, etc. Joomla notably stands out from the other CMS’s thanks to its quality and usability.

Joomla and Mambo CMS have been developed by the same professionals of web design industry. So, they possess a lot of common features. For example similar code, system requirements, etc. At the same time new releases of Joomla will differ from Mambo. Having compared Joomla and Mambo CMS’s you can notice that Joomla has more options, better security issues, regular updates, additional Built-in-Applications, etc.

CMS has one more feature that is important to mention. It can be used like a basement for web templates. So, more and more web developers decide on CMS while creating their templates. Taking into consideration that Joomla is a comfortable, well-coded and easy-manageable CMS it was chosen to be the basement of Joomla Templates. These templates have been launched by the biggest and most reliably templates’ provider Template Monster and they become very popular among those people who wish to build an outstanding web site.

So, more and more sites are operating on Joomla nowadays. Joomla Templates are easy to use and they give you a chance to manage the content of your web site without going into details of the source code. A user friendly admin panel enables anyone to edit texts, pictures, product images, etc. If you wish to have Joomla like a splendid foundation for your online project, you can choose any example of Joomla Templates offered by Template Monster.

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WordPress Affiliate Profits

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:00:54 +0000

To numerous individuals, internet advertising and marketing may be the best solution to earn a living. No customer support. No merchant accounts. No dealing with items. You’re simply shifting persons from one particular site to another. Just directing people who are looking to buy something to somewhere they can purchase it – and getting a fee as a thank you.

Likewise WordPress is actually one of the single most famous ways to run a site whether that internet site happens to be a blog or a static article site. The wide range of addons and themes means that WordPress can now do just about whatever you like and even more impressively WordPress websites often rank incredibly highly in the search engines. The mixture of usability, zero costs to make use of the software as well as the way WordPress sites attract numerous readers makes it the perfect solution for affiliate marketers.

The fundamental concept of WordPress internet promoting is as follows. You produce a internet site based around a particular area of interest or phrase. Once you have chosen your market the next task is always to develop content about that theme. Luckily adding articles to WordPress websites is incredibly uncomplicated.

By publishing an abundance of posts in your web page this provides the search engines plenty to go through on your own internet site. And also the more articles you may have, the more possible visitors you might have coming your way.

Guests get to your site having discovered it in the search engines like Google and you then use a wide variety of techniques to encourage them to buy something. When they do you get your fee.

WordPress is simple enough to get started with – as well as being cost-free. The real trick in terms of WordPress associate marketing is figuring out tips on how to attract adequate readers to make a healthy profit, and tips on how to turn these visitors into buyers.
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