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Joomla Hosting – ASPHostPortal.com :: PSD to Joomla Template Conversion

clock February 21, 2014 11:07 by author ben

Joomla is one of the widly used software that allows you to create a professional-looking and user friendly website in a verry short time. And in Joomla Web development, PSD to Joomla conversion is an inevitable process.

Any PSD file can be converted into a Joomla Template by following these three easy steps. Simply go through the following illustrated steps for the PSD to Joomla conversion :

  1. Slicing the PSD:
    First, you must slice the PSD file into multiple layers viz. header, footer, content or navigation part. Slicing should be done with a keen eye because it creates the base for your website. You should also work on the parts which you don’t want to duplicate using the CSS such as the images, logo and the buttons. So slice out all your images and save them in a separate folder called images.

  2. Conversion and Styling:
    • HTML Conversion : Now next thing in conversion is the coding of  image files in a proper semantic form. It should be kept in mind that your conversion is well structured with a table-less Search Engine friendly semantics.
    • CSS Styling : In another step you have to start developing your Cascading Style Sheet popularly called as CSS. While designing a CSS, you should check whether it is meeting all the requirements of website.
    • JavaScript : In this part of conversion implement all your JavaScript into the website. Make your website more attractive and add dynamic interaction with the use of proper JavaScript.

  3. Joomla Integration:
    Here, you need to be verry consious in order to avoid any inconsistency in the data. It would be better to hire a professional Joomla designer who has all the required expertise to carry out this conversion in an efficient manner. So, now, create a relevant folder and directories required for your website. Create a Template_thumbnail.png for displaying  template image in admin panel and a template_details.xml which will be serving as the  main file that Joomla reads to install a template. Finally make a zip file of the complete folder and install it using the Extension Manager in your Joomla Content Management System.

 



ASPHostPortal.com Proudly Launches IIS 8.5 Hosting

clock February 10, 2014 10:05 by author ben

ASPHostPortal.com proudly launches the support of IIS 8.5 on all their newest Windows Server 2012 R2 environment. ASPHostPortal.com IIS 8.5 Hosting plan starts from just as low as $1.00/month only.

ASPHostPortal.com,a leading web hosting provider and ASP.NET specialist, today launched the latest update of the Microsoft IIS technology. The IIS 8.5,  introduces many new features including several that focus on premium media experiences and business application development for faster loading websites, business services and applications regardless of an organisations requirements.


IIS 8.5 will be released with the Windows Server 2012 R2 product. With IIS 8.5, the IIS team continued its focus on scalability and manageability improvements.  IIS 8.5 adds sophisticated features like Dynamic Website Activation, Enhanced Logging and Logging to Event Tracing for Windows in IIS .8.5.

Another wonderful feature of IIS 8.5  is Suspended AppPools. This new feature allows applications hosted on IIS 8.5 to be suspended instead of being terminated, so when the site is shutdown because of the idle timeout, instead of completely killing the worker process, all the state is saved into disk.

“Our customers have been asking us about IIS 8.5 and we are happy to deliver a hosting platform that supports all the latest in the Microsoft Web Stack. With the launched of IIS 8.5 hosting services, we hope that developers and our existing clients can try this new features.” said Dean Thomas, Manager at ASPHostPortal.com.

Where to look for the best IIS 8.5 hosting service? How to know more about the different types of hosting services? Read more about it on http://www.asphostportal.com.

As a leading hosting provider, ASPHostPortal.com offers a comprehensive range of services including domain name registrations, servers, online backup solutions and dedicated web hosting. ASPHostPortal.com is well placed to deliver a high quality service.

About ASPHostPortal.com:

ASPHostPortal.com is a hosting company that best support in Windows and ASP.NET-based hosting. Services include shared hosting, reseller hosting, and sharepoint hosting, with specialty in ASP.NET, SQL Server, and architecting highly scalable solutions. As a leading small to mid-sized business web hosting provider, ASPHostPortal.com strive to offer the most technologically advanced hosting solutions available to all customers across the world. Security, reliability, and performance are at the core of hosting operations to ensure each site and/or application hosted is highly secured and performs at optimum level.



Press Release - ASPHostPortal.com Proudly Launches osCommerce 3.0.2 Hosting

clock January 30, 2014 10:13 by author Mike

ASPHostPortal.com is a premiere web hosting company that specializes in Windows and ASP.NET-based hosting with innovative technology  solutions, proudly announced the best osCommerce 3.0.2 hosting service with a combination of affordable price, high customer  satisfaction rate and commendable quality in all ASP.NET and Windows web hosting plans.

osCommerce 3.0.2 are made to showcase the new features being worked on and to generalize a version specific for testing to help fix  and improve subsequent alpha releases for a final, stable, secure, and production ready 3.0.2 releases. The osCommerce solution offers  great flexibility and empowers even amateur webmasters to develop highly competitive ecommerce websites.

Until recently, the cost involved in hiring a web development company to develop a similar ecommerce web site was prohibiting several  small businesses from selling on-line. The osCommerce solution is one of the best fruits of the open source community and which poses  a serious challenge to other similar commercial software products.


Installation for this software can be performed easily from within the web hosting control panel, even by customers with poor  programming experience. The installation process takes up to a minute to perform, thus enabling customers to deploy an entire  ecommerce storefront for their business within a few clicks of the mouse.

ASPHostPortal.com
is the among the few top web hosting company that tested and offer ASP.NET hosting plan that compliance with  osCommerce 3.0.2 hosting. There are several companies out there that offer e-Commerce hosting plan but at ASPHostPortal.com, we provide quality e-Commerce  hosting plan at affordable prices that will not only keep your operating costs low but also help you to maximize your profits.

ASPHostPortal.com
development teams have fully tested and deployed the latest osCommerce 3.0.2 in hosting control panel systems.  Clients can install and use osCommerce 3.0.2 hosting with few clicks of installation steps. For more information about this topics or  have any enquiries related to osCommerce hosting, please visit http://www.asphostportal.com/osCommerce-Hosting.

About the Company
ASPHostPortal.com is a hosting company that best support in Windows and ASP.NET-based hosting. Services include shared hosting,  reseller hosting, and sharepoint hosting, with specialty in ASP.NET, SQL Server, and architecting highly scalable solutions. As a  leading small to mid-sized business web hosting provider, ASPHostPortal.com strive to offer the most technologically advanced hosting  solutions available to all customers across the world. Security, reliability, and performance are at the core of hosting operations to  ensure each site and/or application hosted is highly secured and performs at optimum level.



ASP.NET MVC 5.1 Hosting :: ASPHostPortal.com Proudly Launches ASP.NET MVC 5.1 Hosting

clock January 28, 2014 09:12 by author ben

ASPHostPortal.com officially launches ASP.NET MVC 5.1  hosting at affordable prices. Instant Setup, Fast and Friendly Support!

ASPHostPortal.com, a leading innovator in Windows Hosting, announces the launch of ASP.NET MVC 5.1 Hosting. The ASP.NET MVC 5.1 Framework is the latest evolution of Microsoft’s ASP.NET web platform. It provides a high-productivity programming model that promotes cleaner code architecture, test-driven development, and powerful extensibility, combined with all the benefits of ASP.NET.

ASP.NET MVC 5.1 contains a number of advances over previous versions, including the ability to define routes using C# attributes and the ability to override filters,Enum support in Views, Support for current Context in Unobtrusive Ajax, Filter Overrides and etc. The user experience of building MVC applications has also been substantially improved.

“Our customers have been asking us about MVC 5.1 and we are happy to deliver a hosting platform that supports all the latest in the Microsoft Web Stack.” said said Dean Thomas, Manager at ASPHostPortal.com.  "And it proves that we remain at the forefront in Microsoft technology".

Where to look for the best ASP.NET MVC 5.1 hosting service? How to know more about the different types of hosting services? Read more about it on http://www.asphostportal.com.


About ASPHostPortal.com:

ASPHostPortal.com is a hosting company that best support in Windows and ASP.NET-based hosting. Services include shared hosting, reseller hosting, and sharepoint hosting, with specialty in ASP.NET, SQL Server, and architecting highly scalable solutions. As a leading small to mid-sized business web hosting provider, ASPHostPortal.com strive to offer the most technologically advanced hosting solutions available to all customers across the world. Security, reliability, and performance are at the core of hosting operations to ensure each site and/or application hosted is highly secured and performs at optimum level.



ASPHostPortal.com Proudly Launches nopCommerce 3.2 Hosting

clock January 23, 2014 10:46 by author Mike

ASPHostPortal.com is a premiere web hosting company that specializes in Windows and ASP.NET-based hosting with innovative technology  solutions, proudly announced the best nopCommerce 3.2 hosting service with a combination of affordable price, high customer  satisfaction rate and commendable quality.

nopCommerce is an open source e-commerce solution that contains both a catalog frontend and an administration tool backend.  nopCommerce is a fully customizable shopping cart. It's stable and highly usable. From downloads to documentation, nopCommerce.com  offers a comprehensive base of information, resources, and support to the nopCommerce community. The latest version of nopCommerce is  3.2 with lots of awesome features.

The first feature that will grab the attention of every nopCommerce store owner is the new Facebook Shop. The next major functionality  that comes with nopCommerce 3.20 is its support for warehouses. What this means is that you can configure individual products to be  shipped from a specific location (warehouse). You can also configure the system to use the warehouse location when calculating the  shipping cost for the product. While we are on the nopCommerce 3.20 shipping functionality, there is another new feature worth  mentioning. Now the store owner can specify when a product will be shipped. In nopCommerce this information is referred to as delivery  date. This is useful for example when you are selling products, which are manufactured on demand.

Nopcommerce 3.2 is simply the best and most powerful open source shopping cart on the planet. It is the only open source shopping  cart application that supports both multi-sites and multi-vendors. NopCommerce is fast, easy, and fun. I definitely recommend  NopCommerce to anyone who wants to start an online business.


ASPHostPortal.com
is a popular online nopCommerce 3.2 hosting service provider with all of its hosting plans to help users to automate  and simplify website and server administration tasks such as installation and migration. There are several companies out there that offer e-Commerce hosting plan but at ASPHostPortal.com provide quality e-Commerce  hosting plan at affordable prices that will not only keep your operating costs low but also help you to maximize your profits.

nopCommerce is ASP.NET 4.0 based supporting MS SQL databases. It features an embedded graphic installer, so nopCommerce can be setup  in few minutes and run immediately. For more information about this topics or have any enquiries related to nopCommerce hosting,  please visit http://www.asphostportal.com/nopCommerce-Hosting.

About the Company
ASPHostPortal.com is a hosting company that best support in Windows and ASP.NET-based hosting. Services include shared hosting,  reseller hosting, and sharepoint hosting, with specialty in ASP.NET, SQL Server, and architecting highly scalable solutions. As a  leading small to mid-sized business web hosting provider, ASPHostPortal.com strive to offer the most technologically advanced hosting  solutions available to all customers across the world. Security, reliability, and performance are at the core of hosting operations to  ensure each site and/or application hosted is highly secured and performs at optimum level.



Joomla 3.2 Hosting - ASPHostPortal.com :: How to Enable Content History in Joomla! 3.2

clock January 21, 2014 06:48 by author Mike

Joomla is one of the Opensource CMS is designed to be used dimulti scope . ranging from the simple to the complex , even up to the corporate level . Joomla is easy to pengintallan , sederhanda in managing and reliable.

Joomla CMS is an award for the category , which will help us in creating a website or other online applications . over Joomla is a free open source application that is designed for us all .The latest version at this time that Joomla version 3.2.

How to Enable Content History in Joomla! 3.2

 

One of the best new features in Joomla 3.2 is Content History.

This tutorial will show you how to enable the feature if you’re upgrading from Joomla 3.1, as well as how to adjust some of its options.

For those that are starting new sites in Joomla 3.2, the feature is enabled by default.

Enable within Article Manager

How to Enable Content History in Joomla! 3.2
Go to:

  • Article Manager
  • Options

How to Enable Content History in Joomla! 3.2
Go to:

  • Editing Layout tab
  • Set Save History to Yes.
  • Adjust the Maximum Versions setting to your preference. This sets the number of latest revisions to save for the article.
  • Click Save & Close.

Test the Feature

How to Enable Content History in Joomla! 3.2

Enter an article, make a few revisions, then save. Make a few more revisions, then click save again. Finally, click on the Versions button to see the saved changes.
How to Enable Content History in Joomla! 3.2
In the above screenshot everything’s working. I can now preview a revision, restore it, compare it to another, keep it on, and delete it.

Note, the Keep On/Forever option allows you to store that version indefinitely. Using an example is an easy way to explain this feature. Remember the Maximum Versions setting? If you set that to 5, then 5 versions of that article are saved. On the 6th one, the 1st version gets deleted so that there are still 5 versions left total. What if you want to keep the first one or any other article? That’s where the Keep On setting comes into play. If you enable it for that article version, it won’t automatically get deleted from the list, but rather will remain there untouched. It’s basically a "lock" feature that prevents deletion.

Enable Content History in the Other Components

You can repeat the above process for the other components that have Content History built-in:

  • Banners
  • Contacts
  • Newsfeeds
  • Tags
  • Users
  • Weblinks
  • And any custom component that integrates with Content History.


Press Release - ASPHostPortal.com Proudly Launches DotNetNuke (DNN) 7.2 Hosting

clock January 16, 2014 07:34 by author Mike

ASPHostPortal.com is a premiere web hosting company that specializes in Windows and ASP.NET-based  hosting with innovative technology solutions, proudly announced the best DotNetNuke (DNN) 7.2 hosting  service with a combination of affordable price, high customer satisfaction rate and commendable quality.


DotNetNuke is an open source web content management system that is built on ASP.net infrastructure and  solely has its life wire running smoothly on Microsoft platform. Furthermore, it is an open source web  content management system that started in the year 2002 by a team of developers which was headed by the  original creator Shaun Walker who happens to have bagged his certification as a certified Microsoft Most  Valuable Professional in the year 2004 and the latest version is 7.2 with lots of awesome features.

DotNetNuke (DNN) 7.2 includes a number of new features and enhancements that will benefit users and  developers alike along with a large number of bug fixes. DNN 7.2 version incorporates some of the  interesting features to elevate the existing functionality and make your site administration process a  lot easier. DNN 7.2 also allows you to install JavaScript libraries as first party extensions. Once  installed your module or skin can request that JavaScript library and the platform will automatically  add the library into the page. The API mirrors the one used for jQuery and JQuery UI making it very easy  to use.

Some benefits that the DotNetNuke content management system includes are greater site consistency,  improved site navigation, streamlined authoring process, faster turnaround time for new pages and  changes, increased site flexibility, support for decentralised authoring, increased security, reduced  duplication of information, greater capacity for growth, and reduced site maintenance costs. DotNetNuke is the best CMS (content management system) for businesses and  is easier to create and manage with ASPHostPortal.com.

ASPHostPortal.com is a popular online DotNetNuke (DNN) 7.2 hosting service provider with all of its  hosting plans to help users to automate and simplify website and server administration tasks such as  installation and migration. For more information about this topics or have any enquiries related to DotNetNuke (DNN) 7.2 hosting,  please visit http://www.asphostportal.com/DotNetNuke-Hosting

About the Company
ASPHostPortal.com is a hosting company that best support in Windows and ASP.NET-based hosting. Services  include shared hosting, reseller hosting, and sharepoint hosting, with specialty in ASP.NET, SQL Server,  and architecting highly scalable solutions. As a leading small to mid-sized business web hosting  provider, ASPHostPortal.com strive to offer the most technologically advanced hosting solutions available to  all customers across the world. Security, reliability, and performance are at the core of hosting  operations to ensure each site and/or application hosted is highly secured and performs at optimum  level.



Joomla 3.2 Hosting Services Now Available at ASPHostPortal.com with Higher Resources

clock January 9, 2014 06:00 by author Mike

ASPHostPortal.com is a premiere web hosting company that specializes in Windows and ASP.NET-based hosting, proudly announced the best Joomla 3.2 hosting to introduce the best optimized Joomla 3.2 hosting service with a combination of affordable price, high customer satisfaction rate and commendable quality.

Joomla is one of the world's most popular open source content management systems (CMS) used for everything from websites to blogs to Intranets, today announced its first ever in-person code sprints. The initial code sprints will be used to help build the newest version of Joomla, which more than 3 percent of websites now use for their CMS.

Now that the Joomla 3.2 Short Term Support version has released. There are over 600 combined improvements and de-bugs brought about by Joomla 3.2, with each one aiming to help make the platform faster, simpler and more secure. ASPHostPortal.com offers a special service for installing, component support, migration and maintenance support for this brand new version of Joomla.

ASPHostPortal.com is a popular online Joomla 3.2 hosting service provider catering to those people who face such issues. The company has managed to build a strong client base in a very short period of time. It is known for offering ultra-fast, fully-managed and secured services in the competitive market. We have been offering fully managed backups, updates, and security all round the year without any sorts of interruptions to make sure that the web traffic of their clients’ websites and blogs is not lost. The company is also seen offering maximum security for its clients’ blogs and websites.

For more information about this topics or have any enquiries related to Joomla 3.2 hosting, please visit http://www.asphostportal.com

About the Company
ASPHostPortal.com is a hosting company that best support in Windows and ASP.NET-based hosting. Services include shared hosting, reseller hosting, and sharepoint hosting, with specialty in ASP.NET, SQL Server, and architecting highly scalable solutions. As a leading small to mid-sized business web hosting provider, ASPHostPortal strive to offer the most technologically advanced hosting solutions available to all customers across the world. Security, reliability, and performance are at the core of hosting operations to ensure each site and/or application hosted is highly secured and performs at optimum level.



Joomla Hosting - ASPHostPortal.com :: How to Use Content Versioning in Joomla 3.2

clock January 7, 2014 10:59 by author Mike

In previous versions of Joomla, you are able to change the articles as well as categories and use that latest version only. In the latest version of Joomla 3.2, you can make changes and keep track of the changes, make comparisons or restore all changes that have been made. Content versioning is one of the key new features of Joomla 3.2.

Use Versions in the Article edit page

1. Go to Article manager.

joomla3.2 article manager

2. Click on the Options button to check if Versioning is enabled and configure how many copies of articles do you want to keep.

joomla options button

3. Click on the Editing Layout tab on the Options page and check that parameters marked with a red square on the following screenshot are enabled and configured.

article manager options

4. Start writing new articles or edit an existing one.

joomla article editor

5. I chose to edit an existing Joomla demo article and add some new content at the end of the article. Save your changes when you are done but don’t leave this article editing page (just click on the Save button and not on the Save & Close button).

Joomla article, updated and saved

6. Click on the Versions button in the Joomla toolbar to open the Item Versions History dialog.

click versions button

7. You can see the Item Version History dialog on the next screenshot. Currently an active copy of the article is marked with a gold star after the information about the date and time it was saved.

version history star marks current

8. If you select multiple history items, you can compare changes between them by clicking on the Compare button in the toolbar.

compare history versions

9. Compare view will show you changes between versions in all article fields by default. It is important to say that version keeps track not only about the changes in the article content but also about the changes in all article configurations fields also.

compare view of joomla articles

10. If you click on the Show HTML Code button, you can see the underlying HTML code of the articles and compare with the source level changes that happened in the article.

html view of articles and html changed

11. If you click on the No button (or Yes button of this is already enabled) under the Keep Forever column, you can mark history items as permanent. That means that this history item won’t be deleted in history rotation when the history item number reaches the number of items defined in the Options that we configured in the step 2 of this tutorial.

clicking to prevent version deleted

12. The first item in the item history table is marked as permanent and thus it won’t be removed from the history rotation.

article version locked cant be deleted

13. If you decide that you want to go back in time and that you want to republish the item version you did before, just select that item in the item history list and click on the Restore button

click to restore previous version

Conclusion

Over time, the goal of Joomla's developers is to unify the way that Joomla handles content whether it's in Joomla articles, user information or data from other extensions. This version control is a great start in that direction.



Joomla 3.2 Hosting - ASPHostPortal.com :: How to fix a blank screen after upgrading to Joomla 3.2

clock December 20, 2013 07:46 by author ben

In the process of updating some of our Joomla template packages from Joomla 2.5 to Joomla 3.2, I've just come across an easily circumvented bug during the update process

What is the error?

The error occurs during the installation of the Joomla 3.2 via the Joomla Update component and ends in the user being presented with a blank screen. In most cases a blank screen means that there is a php error and because error reporting is set to default the error is not displayed on the screen and so all we see is a blank screen.

How to turn error reporting on in Joomla if you can't access the administrator.
To confirm the error that you are dealing with you need to turn error reporting on in the site's global configuration. Normally this is accessible via the control panel however since it's not possible to access any pages in the administrator you need to adjust the setting manually.

1. In your site's root locate the file called configuration.php




2. Open the file with a text or code editor and edit the current setting for error reporting.



3. The default setting is usually "default" and so in order to display errors on the page you need to change this settign to maximum.


4. After doing this and refreshing the front or back end of your site you should see the following error.

Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object in /PATH-TO-YOUR-SITE/plugins/system/remember/remember.php on line 94

Now we know what we are dealing with
So now that we have a discernible error on the page we know which fiel is causing the issue and gives us some material to start doign a google search with.

The solution
The solution is to temporarily disable the remember.php file which is a part of the core Joomla installation. Renaming files in your installation with error reporting on is a very useful tool to investigate the cause of errors in your Joomla installation.





If all goes well after you refresh the page you should now be able to navigate around the administrator.
Renamed the remember.php file to the original name again the site functioned properly.

 



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