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I'm looking for Joomla! image gallery that is simple to set up and has good customer support i.e. adding requested feature and fixing integration issue. No matter free or commercial, the only requirements are good looking user interface and very good support.
I want to be able to place single image with lightbox effect or create gallery of multiple images on my page.
Please suggest.
Check out Phoca Gallery Component. It is a complete solution with component, modules and plugins which allows us to display images or Youtube videos in many different styles. It allows us to categorise images into Categories(like for articles) and each category can be shown as different album. It has support for many different type of lightbox, such as slimbox, highslide, etc.. but contains a "Powered by Phoca Gallery". You can enhance it even more by using custom plugins. I have used it on many sites, hope it'll help you. You can find it on Joomla extension site at-
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/photos-a-images/photo-gallery/3150
you want open lightbox then dont need to download anything.
joomla provide simple technique.
include JHTML::_('behavior.modal');
and then pass class="modal" into the tag.
You probably should try Art Sexy Lightbox extension which is Joomla! image lightbox and gallery. It in the top of user ratings in Joomla! extensions directory which means it has strong support.
Art Sexy Lightbox has some nice features as various themes, ability to show images from local folder or Flickr or external pages, thumbnail auto-generation, etc.
From non-commercial galleries I would recomment CSS Gallery which is pure-CSS solution.
I use ARI Fancybox lightbox extension from ARI Soft team. This company provides different lightbox extensions and I suppose you can find an extension which is suitable for your requirements. I didn't have problems with support, support team responded to my requests very quickly.
I'd take a look at http://www.joomlaworks.gr/ Simple Image Gallery. Comes as a plugin, just drop it anywhere in an article, and point it to a folder in media manager and away you go.
I use a free Yoogallery plugin with thumbnail auto-generation and a possibility to change from lightbox to slideshow style.
I used the MooBox Plugin from Vargas http://joomla.vargas.co.cr/es/documentation/15-miscellaneous/117-moobox-gallery works perfect.
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I have a programming background Microsoft. I have been asked to take over the website at work (multi million dollar business using Magento2 Enterprise). I know php and JavaScript and I am familiar with JQuery and various plug-ins. However I know nothing about Magneto. Am I able to edit the visual layout of the website (that is currently using foundation framework) without knowing much about Magneto? OR do I need to learn to use/program Magneto before I can edit the visual look of our webs-site?
Yes - you can change colours and various CSS styles without knowing much about Magento, but if you want to start changing the templates (HTML) or the way the framework functions, you'll need to learn.
how to implement adobe muse with CMS like magento
Sounds like you're asking a web designer question on a programming section. Since their major blurb is:
Create gorgeous, custom websites without writing code.
If you know Adobe InDesign you’ll know Adobe Muse, the graphic designer’s favorite web-building app. Skip the coding and quickly design unique sites using familiar features and shortcuts, and integrate third-party functionality like blogs and shopping carts.
it probably doesn't fit well with database driven, template presentation websites. A product built for people who don't want to get their hands dirty, or if they're attempting to run Magento, need to hire people who understand the programming issues needed to run it.
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I've been tasked with finding an open source CMS that can be integrated slowly into a set of existing websites. This way pages can be brought across to the CMS one by one with the site remaining live during the changeover.
Does anyone have any thoughts, experience or advice on what CMS solution would be suitable for solving the problem I've outlined above?
I've been trying out the various offerings for the last couple of days and have found the following options. But having very little experince of using a CMS it'd be really helpful to get other views on this from more experienced devs on what pit falls to avoid.
N2 CMS - A mature option, I've got this working but the documentation is really lacking. I've also found it difficult to find the minimum spec requirements for a database and also browser compatibility. I do however like the code structure for creating the template pages.
Phun CMS - this is a new open source project that I really like the look of in the way the programmer is approaching the problem and separating the concerns. It's probably far too new though to really look at at the moment.
Composite C1 - A mature CMS option, great documentation. However says that it only supports IE9+.
Umbraco - not tried yet but looks heavyweight
Piranha - not tried yet but nice website and documentation and also says that it's lightweight.
I'm the lead developer for Piranha CMS so maybe I can shed some light on what Piranha CMS is best at!
Our focus is content management and to have a transparent and lightweight API for developers. Piranha CMS has almost no components or helpers that render any HTML at all, it simply provides a database, a manager interface and a routing mechanism for retrieving the correct data for the current request.
In the case of you having an existing website you could actually bypass the routing completely, add one page at a time in the manager interface and then manually load the Page model in you existing page. This would allow you to keep your original application exactly the same but manage the content form the manager interface.
Hope you find the CMS you're looking for, and if you have any questions about Piranha feel free to contact me!
Another option of a full featured ASP.NET CMS is Orchard. But like all full featured CMS, you are stuck with initial learning curve about the CMS. You are also stuck with using that CMS once you are converted to it, so do all your research and basic site feature development before making the decision on CMS because it will be difficult once you are converted.
Phun CMS approach is different. Realizing that everyone site is customized, except for small things that you allow client to modify and do not need to get called in the middle of the night to make that modification, Phun CMS was born. Modern framework such as ASP.NET MVC already has all the CMS features: authentication, routing, razor templating/theming, etc... Phun CMS just provide a way to store your client dynamic content. You can still utilize everything you already know about ASP.NET MVC and Razor. But I'm also the Phun CMS author, so maybe my comment is (a bit, just a bit ;) biased on this topic.
If you want to go page-by-page I'd advise a setup where the new CMS tries to match all requests, if no match is found, instead of throwing a 404, redirect to the old instance (which can in turn return a generic 404 if needed).
I don't think this kind of solution is specific to any CMS, but check if you are able to modify the 404 page behaviour (really, you should in any mature CMS).
N2 CMS definitely fits the bill and it is particularly suited to integrating into an existing site bit-by-bit. It's lightweight and nice and responsive. It's also very developer friendly and doesn't force it's model on you.
The only problem is the one that you mention, that the documentation isn't the greatest so it's initially hard to get into. However, you'll find after that initial barrier it is very easy to get the hang of.
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I have been using nvALT © Brett Terpstra 2010 which has the Markdown preview option for all the notes.
Is there any application on Windows end which has similar preview functionality. I understand that lot converters available but for the ease of use sake I am looking for an application with the similar preview option.
I created a full-featured Markdown editor for Windows called MarkdownPad (http://markdownpad.com), and it supports full live HTML preview:
MarkdownPad is lightweight (only 1.5 MB, not including the .NET 4 Framework), and offers several great features:
Everything is customizable. Fonts, colors, sizes, and even the CSS stylesheet of the rendered HTML. The default CSS is beautiful and minimal, and will make your HTML documents look great.
Easy HTML export. You can export the full document as HTML, or just selected text.
Distraction-free Mode. This full-screen mode turns your whole monitor into a blank canvas for you to get some serious work done.
Frequent updates. I'm always improving MarkdownPad, and love hearing feedback from users.
Built natively for Windows. MarkdownPad was built from the ground up exclusively for Windows. It uses the latest Microsoft .NET 4 and Windows Presentation 4 Frameworks (translation: it's all kinds of shiny on the inside).
And I even wrote this post in MarkdownPad :)
I use MarkPad. It's free. It's open source. It looks great. And, it's written in WPF (which I love).
If you use Visual Studio, the Markdown Mode extension is pretty handy for both Markdown syntax highlighting as well as displaying a live preview.
ResophNotes supports Markdown with preview.
ReText is a Python app that supports Markdown Preview, but Windows doesn't appear to be the main target platform. I got it to work in Windows, but I had to download the icons separately and copy then into one of the app directories in order to get it to work properly.
WriteMonkey also has Markdown support.
I've written a editor called Markdown Editor.
You can read more about it at http://mike-ward.net/markdownedit.
MarkdownPad does not support images.
EDIT: that should read that it did not support local images. But as of the latest version it does!
I can now fully recommend it. It is easily the best Markdown editor, and the developer is a pretty good guy too.
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I recently bought the new Plesk software and im unsure on how to re-brand the site to our company logos and themes.
Does anyone know the steps to changes these settings or a manual that would answer my questions?
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Oliver James
Well, it really depends on how much work you want to do. You can do as little as changing the logo--which is quite simple--to as much as completely retheming the interface to match your company's brand. The path of least resistance is to copy an existing skin and modify it to suit your needs.
Either way, start in the admin interface and go to the Server config page. The two options that should interest you are there: Logo Setup and Interface Management. Changing the logo is pretty obvious, so I'll stick to the Interface Management part.
Once in the Interface Management section, click on the Skins tab. The first thing you should do here is find the skin that most closely resembles what you'd like your finished product to look like. You'll notice on the list of skins that there's an icon of a floppy disk; clicking on this icon will allow you to download a .zip or .tar.gz file containing all the files for the skin.
Now you just need to alter the skin as necessary. I recommend setting up a development server (or a virtualized server) where you can play with Plesk without causing any damage to your production server. And, of course, best practices dictate that you should probably put it all under source control to make sure nothing goes wrong.
Anyhow, once you've made your changes and you're satisfied with the results, go back to the Skins page in the Interface Management section and click the Add New Skin button. Zip up your skin (to match the way it was zipped when you downloaded the base skin) and upload the file. Once you've uploaded it, you can then choose the skin from the Skins page. To be on the safe side, I recommend creating a dummy client user and testing out the skin on your production environment before switching any existing users to the new skin, just in case there's a problem with the skin.
And once you're satisfied that your newly-modified skin works on the production site, go ahead and switch all your existing users over.