Joomla CSS Guide released their new Christmas themed joomla 1.5 template called JCSS Christmas. This colorful and bright template comes with a 3 column collapsible structure and 4 shiny module styles.

It’s the time to give your joomla powered website a fresh and glamorous holiday look.

JCSS Christmas Template Features

• Joomla 1.5 Native
• 100% table-less layout
• 14 module placement positions (Fully Collapsible)
• 4 Different module styles
• Suckerfish dropdown menu
• Included print stylesheet
• Valid XHTML and CSS markup
• Clean, simple and fast loading template

JCSS Christmas Demo

JCSS Christmas Specifications

Source can be found here.

What if you need something more than the default registration form in Joomla? Like for instance adding mobile phone validation, zip code and many more custom fields. Then you could make your own component that extends the functionality of the normal default user component and that is what this tutorial is all about.

Quick how to:

1.) Start with copying the current com_user folder and name it com_extendeduser, edit the xml description file to reflect the changes.

2.) Make an sql file with the sql needed to create the new table jos_extuser. Zip it up and install in the Joomla backend.

3.) It’s time to start coding. We start by making an extension to JTable in the models folder of our new component, we call the class TableExtUser and it should contain member variables that match the field names in the database exactly. All except the password which we call $_password. Next we add some methods, many are extensions to the JTable.

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I usually start with a Yaml scaffolding when I make a new template for Joomla. When I use Yaml I know the basic structure of the HTML document is the best possible, and the CSS will work for IE6 out of the box. Yaml has been created by far more design and CSS savvy people than me and I trust them completely.
window.google_render_ad();The process usually works like this:
1.) I select a base template from the Yaml examples that fit my needs most.
2.) I copy it and the Yaml core to the Joomla template folder, in this step I also have to change some paths in the CSS files to correctly reflect the new structure. Usually it’s just a matter of replacing a few ../../ with ../ to account for the fact that I have moved files up from the examples folder. Setting <files> <filename>index.php</filename> </files> and not much more in templateDetails.xml enables me to install the fresh template.
3.) The modifying work can start; mostly it’s a matter of changing the CSS and inserting <:jdoc blabla > where I want them.

Usually that is all there is to it but in one particular instance we just had to have a horizontal menu with buttons instead of text as links. Setting the images in the Joomla admin module is no problem, the problem is that the system then treats them as some kind of bullet graphics which is not what I wanted in this case and it’s impossible to save menu items with a null text value. Simply put: The texts end up to the side of the the images causing displacements. However, setting font-size:0px for the class that styles the div that contains the menu solved the problem, in firefox.

Not in ie6 of course, in ie6 there was a visible gap between each menu element where the text would have been. I don’t about you but for me 0 is 0, it’s nothing, not so for some poor soul at Microsoft apparently. Setting font-size to negative values in the patch file for ie6 didn’t help either. I had to set the menu texts to a single character in the Joomla backend, not a major hassle since you have the slugs to guide you as to what is what anyway back there. I also had to set the right margin to -1px in the ie6 patch file for the class that controls each menu element. The need to constantly have to make use of negatives is a prime example of how insane ie6 is. I think I spent over 2 hours on ie6 related problems setting up this template,

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Using joomla since day 1  I often re-use a lot of joomla components over and over. There are a lot of components that give Joomla the power to be the best CMS on market today.
Here are the most useful components  I used in the years for building sites. Of course the list is not exhaustive. I do not claim to have used all components and also I will not include any commercial components in this list. Commercial components will make another list .

The list is not in a specific order, the components are all good and mainly from different areas – so it would be hard to compare them to each other..

1)    Virtuemart
No eCommerce site should be without a  virtuemart installation. This component provides an out of the box shop. An extensive plugin API allowed the component to grow into a full ecommerce solution. There are now a huge amount of payment plugins available for virtueamart, and there are lots of freelancers able to build you a custom made one (if you have some exotic payment processor).
Products and Manufacturers can be very easy setup, and shipment costs can be customized with ease. After trying Virtuemart there are not enough horses in the world to drag you back to OSCommerce


2)    JoomlaPack
Backup, Backup, Backup. You always wish you do not have to need it, but when you need it – you’re dead without it.
Most budget hosting sites do not offer a decent backup management system (I know godaddy does not), and also there is not to easy to restore that backup once you would need it.  Joomlapack solves this with elegance. First of all the backup management is very well thought and joomla oriented. Second it generates install files that put your site back in case you need it. Just upload the archive contents and you will get a wizard similar to the joomla installation wizard.
Also great for site migration!

3)    Community Builder
Ok. There are not enough words to stress the necesity of this component. There is no proffesional wemaster that did not use it at least in one site. For the moment this is THE profile management system for joomla. Smart field management (you can add a lot of custom fields to your profiles), avatars, userlists and many more.
Althou it seems that future versions will be commercial or at least released under some club licenses, this extenison is a must-have for every community site. We even used this for a company intranet site. Worked very well.

4)    Fireboard
Forums. The well known meeting place. The granfathers of social networking. Any open website has one. If you need feedback, if you provide support – there is always a forum.
Fireboard does the job. It delivers. The component is clean, has many options and some templating. There are some missing features – like a messenging system- but the component is very well made and has an enormous complexity.
The only realist alternative for joomla is a SMF bridge – and we all know we hate bridges…

5)    RSSFactory
News syndication is good. RSS integration is better. You can get your fresh content without moving a muscle. Just add the RSS sources that feature news in your area of experitse , or at least that generate keywords that have meaning for your site, and there you have a great free SEO tool.
Most RSS feeds feature a big chunk of the main article, so by integrating them in your site – you will have almost everything there. And with the smart wrapper display our users will not even have to leave your site. Rssfactory has a lot of configurable options in the administrator backend – you can even choose the refresh interval.
Great Tool, Huge benefits.

6)    FacileForms and BreezingForms
Once a proud component in the joomlasphere, Facile forms stalled development some year ago. When I first saw facileforms I immediately fell in love with it.
The visual editing was amazing, and the form element plugin system just great. I had customers that even could programm some basic functions on their own even if they were php illiterate.
Now after more then a year of standstill in the development, there seems that a followup appeared (not by the original development team – but as a fork of Facile forms project) Now with Joomla 1.5 support and a promise of further development. Let’s see where this road leads