Owing to work requirements, I have to use the Internet Phone and Chat software called Skype. However, it has a niggling side effect: Skype somehow uses Port 80 which WampServer also needs.
Thus, the symptom you will see is that when you are logged in to Skype, and try to "Start All Services" on Wampserver, one of the services will never start, it will get 'stuck'.
The solution to this is to only log in to Skype after you have "Started All Services". WampServer functions seem to work alright in this manner. Also, just to note, when the Skype program is open but not logged in, you can still start all WampServer functions.
More site updates...!
1. Added MyBlogLog ... don't know yet though whether it can be integrated with JoomlaComment without the need for my (gasp) looking at code... anyone?EDIT: temporarily removed this.
2. Added "Recent Comments" on sidebar... as the PHP comment notification email feature is dodgy. Anyone had any experience facing PHP emailing problems and in solving that?
The cool thing, though, about this Recent Comments feature is that mouse-overing over the entries will provide a pop-up with more details! It's a cool JavaScript, I reckon... you might have seen this in action on the Malaysia Today site. Which, by the way, uses the same content management system as mine ;)
3. Also added a Categories sidebar. I'm sure experienced coders would find it exceedingly easy to write scripts to pull the corresponding entries out from the database, but... I just want, as much as possible, to be blissfully insulated from actual code! (yes, that holy exorcism artifact) After all, the purpose of blogging engines and content management systems such as Wordpress and Joomla is to ensure that Evil Akuma (for example, like ... ) continue to walk the earth with impunity. Talk about opening portals...
I tend to agree with this comic.
How many of you have ever witnessed something like this..? Think...
I think having the character "?" in the Blog post title makes FireFox's Live Bookmarks fail to load the RSS... my guess is that my RSS script should replace the character with a &char; corresponding to "?" in the RSS feed generation. Anyway, not on the top priority list now.
I am new to using Firefox, and also, blogging. I have the icon on top on the tool bar and it says belle.art which is my blog name. When I right click it it says bookmarkfeedfailedtoload.
I wonder where I have missed the boat? If anyone else has figured out a
similar or same problem please let me know. Thank you.
likabel
Open HTML page code and be sure the content of the href attribute from
<link rel="alternate" href="#*$!" ...
matches your feed URL.
After deleting items in Feeder they still show up in Safari.
Safari
and some other RSS readers keep a copy of your items for a certain
period of time. You can see this period in Safari's RSS preferences.
You can clear Safari's cache of items by clicking the Remove Now button and restarting Safari.
How can I get Safari or other browsers to auto-detect a feed?
Some
web browsers (e.g. Safari, Firefox, OmniWeb) and RSS reader apps can
auto-detect feeds on a site by checking for an alternate link with type
"application/rss+xml" in the <head> section of your web page, similar to this:
Live Bookmarks for my feed fail to load in Firefox.
If
your feed works in some RSS readers like NetNewsWire or Safari, but you
see a "Live Bookmark feed failed to load" message in Firefox, this is
because the items in your feed do not have links. Firefox needs a link
to give the user somewhere to go when they select the Live Bookmark.
To add a link to your items, enter an http:// web address in the Article Link field for each item.
If you do not have a specific link for each item, use your site's URL.
I have 2 questions about copying and pasting images (from online locations) into the JCE editor. The problem I am facing is my pasted image is displayed for just a short while, then it collapses into an error (or a URL). Details are as below.
I am using Joomla v1.0.15 and JCE mambot 1.1.18.
1.
Let's say: I open an image in the Joomla Media Manager, and then open it in a browser window/tab, then highlight the image and Ctrl-C copy it - then I click on the JCE rich text editor area to paste it.
What happens is: The image is displayed just briefly, before it collapses into
Now I am very sure that my image is totally alright.
The funny thing is that, if I load that same image, in a browser window with the same URL but with [b]"www."[/b] in front, as below http://www.virtualestate.org/ultrabeast/images/site/CoatOfArmsJoomla138x138px.jpg
and copy and paste in the exact same way, the image is correctly pasted, no problems.
The thing is, I also tried copying and pasting all the above 3 test images to my Microsoft Outlook Express new message (HTML mail mode), all are displayed without hitches.
2.
Another question is, all images I open with the URL without "www." in front will have the "IMG alt" text automatically generated as below, regardless that it can be displayed in the browser window:
The image “http://virtualestate.org/ultrabeast/images/site/CoatOfArmsJoomla138x138px.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.
Whereas if I open the image with the "www." URL in front first, the IMG alt text is automatically set to the same as the image URL, as below: http://www.virtualestate.org/ultrabeast/images/site/CoatOfArmsJoomla138x138px.jpg ..which is what I want.
Anyone know why is it like this?
I need to find out what's happening and a way around this, the reason being:
The way that I want to insert pictures into my posts is to open all of them in new browser tabs, then highlight, Ctrl-C copy them, and paste them into my post body, and from there use the center/left align/right align/etc. formatting buttons to format them, as opposed to inserting pics using the JCE Image Manager.
I have included screenshots to show what I mean.
Meanwhile, you can also try this on your own JCE as I didn't disable image hotlinking for all the three test pictures above.
Let me know if anyone need more details on this. As you can see, I'm trying very hard on eliminating the possibilities but still have no answers. Hope you can help me.
Apart from this JCE is the best and has everything else I need.
/* line-height: 135%; Causes line overlapping when using large fonts, remove this */
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #1D2D45;
}
1. Don't know what the double h4 is for, could it be just a typo? Anyway, no adverse effect with or without.
2. line-height line is EVIL. It caused the large font text (36pt, or '7') to overlap, making the preceding post 'MOST PEOPLE ARE OTHER PEOPLE.' impossible. Deleting this line made everything WYSIWYG-peachy in the rich text editor again ;)
2) FireFox vs. IE (again) : 3-0
i.
IE7 or IE doesn't seem to like AJAX.
If you post a comment in my blog (using !JoomlaComment, and excellent component) using IE, it has to reload the whole page to display the new comment, whereas in FireFox, it just loads and displays the new comment AJAX (like in FaceBook photo albums.)
Either the JoomlaComment component was scripted to not use AJAX when using IE - or it's: because AJAX wouldn't have worked on IE anyway, it was then scripted this way.
Well, an objective comparison of the relative inconvenience of IE... 1-0 in favour of FireFox.
ii.
Another is, in some free templates online, there's a separate CSS file for IE, usually with the opening comment line, something along the lines of:
/** IE6 is a hunk of crap!!! don't ask me why this is needed **/
LOL...
Yet another reason to use FireFox.
iii.
Another quirk of IE (I am using the 7th generation of IE to test) is that the progressive loading of this very page seems to be timed very 'choppily'. That is, IE will load the top banner....... then display nothing while loading the rest of the page..... wait.... wait.... then pop, out comes the whole page -- just b4 you click the 'X' close button.
In FireFox, the page progressively loads and displays objects as it does, letting you know that it's doing something and isn't frozen.
Besides that... Just a thought... Haven't seen many other blogs using Joomla as their engine. 99.9% I see are using WordPress.
But when the top post was changed to "Escape from
Mount Kinabalu!" that problem went away on its own. I suspect the root cause to
be Firefox LB's parsing of the .xml feed file to be too 'sensitive' to
punctuation characters ..
Site downtime
Also, some Linux CHMOD privilege problem that
caused the site to be down for almost a day was solved. So, I,UltraBeast is back in business as usual! :D
It's that time again where one sits back and reviews what one has done... specifically, I mean this very site.
Right now, things seem to be a bit more 'mature' on the front-end and back-end already... at least, those things that I don't lose any sleep to ignore :D
Although I recognize that a lot of things are going right ... just mention here some of the quirks - so that they don't jump out and surprise you.
1) The domain name itself / subdomain / URL http://virtualestate.org/ultrabeast .
Actually, I intended it to be as http://ultrabeast.virtualestate.org
for ease of typing and memory,
and subsequently any URL to be relative to that e.g. http://ultrabeast.virtualestate.org/Blog/General/The-First-Post.html
instead of http://virtualestate.org/ultrabeast/index.php/Blog/General/The-First-Post.html .
However, due to some issue with the subdomain/redirection/Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs, couldn't figure that out yet. So keeping to the current URL format.
2)
(Probably a big issue for a commercial site) : This website breaks crap in IE.
That is, it can't be loaded by IE.
And since I don't know the root cause of it, I don't know how to solve it ..
Anyway, I don't use IE so I don't even know what other sites can't be loaded by IE ...
Due to a contempt for IE in the first place... which this very quirk does not do anything to lessen that opinion.
So, as I have mentioned somewhere else before,
Currently, this site totally breaks IE (I'd be rich if Microsoft was
offering $ for writing something that can bring down their 16-ton giant
browser) Strictly, use MOZILLA FIREFOX.
A clue I have would be IE blocks by default some scripts which are integral to the rendering of this page. What exactly, I don't know. And I could be wrong about that, too...
EDIT : 25 April 2008, 2:28pm
The root cause of the problem has been found !
It's confirmed - my site really does break IE! Woohoo! Eat your heart our, Mr. William Harold Gates III !
That very cool rsGallery2component - automatic photo slideshows- can't be loaded in IE (IE7 and IE6 both!) and causes IE to jam with "Operation Aborted" error message !
Guess IE doesn't support the AJAX scripts needed by the slideshow... and this is IE7, mind you.. the latest incarnation of IE...
Actually, on a regular day, I would just 'screw IE' and don't care about this... but I need to get my domain ready for review by prospective employers.
As such, the post 'Junior, the Ventriloquism Puppet' with the photo slideshow has been marked under 'Registered' privilege. That is, you need to login to even know the existence of such a post, and yes, login and use MOZILLA FIREFOX.
Grrr...
So currently, it's IE compliant, so that no visitor shalt be turneth away and same too for the full extent of the lucrative advertising revenue.
Coding
