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Canberra Meeting 2 August 2010

We shared  a number of websites for developing ideas and resources:

iPhone & iPad touch home screen icons

Apple touch icon iPhone screen shotRene Sutherland explained the process of enabling your Joomla! site to render a home screen icon. People with iPhones or iPads will be familiar with these ~ when you save a favourite site to your home screen, it will render as a small icon (like an application icon).  Apple automatically gives it a gloss.  If you don't have an appropriately sized and named file in the correct location, all the user will get is a tiny version of what the web page looks like - and this doesn't necessarily have a good look.  If you want to set up a touch icon, do the following:

 

  1. Make a version of your favicon 57 x 57 pixels in size and name it apple-touch-icon.png
  2. Upload it to the root of your website
If you want some more information on this - here's a random website found through Google.

Enabling your Joomla! site to render for iPhones and iPads

Rene shared with members a plugin she found called Template by Browser that will allow your Joomla! site to select an appropriate template depending on the browser platform being used.

But there are heaps of others at the Joomla Extensions section.

You need a specific template that will render on an iPhone if you don't just want a smaller version of your website.  Template developers such as Rockettheme now make all their templates to render in hand-held devices such as iPhones.

Joomla! capabilities and functionality

Boni David talked about Joomla! being an all-in-one solution for your business.  So instead of saying you're going to build a website, say you're going to create an online business.  So when you sell it to your customer - don't just say you'll create a website - say you'll create an online business.  For example Joomla! can do the following:

  1. Email marketing: used (for example) acajoom to achieve this
  2. Shopping carts: Virtuemart is one popular open source shopping cart that is designed to work with Joomla! or there's Tienda
  3. Customer Relationship Marketing (CRM) (Joomla! has an excellent native database development capabilities - but there a numerous extensions that provide more features)
Updating your Joomla! site
David Swanton share with us his success with the extension Update Manager for Joomla! - a component that help enormously in updating your Joomla! site.  It does the following:
  1. Checks the latest version
  2. Downloads the particular package for your upgrade
  3. Installs the update
  4. Shows you a report
  5. That's it!
Several members swore by this awesome extension.

 

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