ljubavje.com new redesign

We have finally put new design on our web-page ljubavje.com.

This design is completely different than before. Colors and contrast between colors are stronger. Font is different and also the placement of content.

Frontpage is lot more flexible. It has random content on it, as well as the newest articles and placement for article which we want to draw special attention to.

Users can register now and we are still working on some changes on forum. As soon as we will finish, users will have opportunity to ask and chat with each other about love and sex topics.

We are also working on creating more usefull content for our users. I'm hoping to attract sponsors which will be of big help with that.

So far, I found sponsor for Creative Corner and therefore I expect to work more on that section in next few months.

Things are maybe going slowly, but I'm happy with what we have achieved so far. This weekend we discovered that we finally have PageRank. Site has jumped from 0 to 4 PageRank. Nice, huh?

Beside google ads, we started using WidgetBucks and started playing with Amazon store and Commision Junction, although, I expect to have the biggest profit from Croatian companies which will be interested in advertising on ljubavje.com...

And it will take some more time for that...

Patience is what we all need when we want to achieve more!

Croatian blogger arrested for publishing secret state informations!

Journalist and blogger Željko Peratović was arrested few days ago under the suspicion of publishing some secret state information. Police bursted into his apartment and took him for questioning around 14 o'clock. In the evening they came back and arrested him!

They searched his apartment and confiscated 3 laptops and computer as well as the documents which they thought were politically important.

According to Željko, the reason for his arrest were some documents and information which he published on his blog few months ago, but those documents and information were already published on other news portals!

Police also searched the offices of Blog.hr, blogging service Željko Peratović is using for blogging, and ordered deletion of "secret" files from his blog which are important for this case.

This incident is currently top story in Croatia. Bloggers are angry and wonder if they will be the next to get arrested. Will Croatian bloggers be censored?

Journalists convicted this act as well as politicians because we are in front of elections!

Our law grants us with the freedom of speech, but cases like this one gives us the opposite feeling. What can we do to fight for our freedom of speech?

Nothing but to raise our voice against this kind of oppression and to tell the whole world what is happening!

Please, spread the word!

Mod_html for Joomla

My favourite Joomla module which I use on every project based on Joomla is definately module-html.

It's a module which is made as a regular notepad so you can put every single piece of code which you desire in this module (including javascript).

It's the best thing for google adsense, stat counters and other widgets or similar stuff. And yes, you can multiply it as much as you want to.

It works perfectly and you can install it thru regular Joomla module installation proces. Download mod_html here or find out more about it.

The only problem that you might have with this module is to come to the point when you want to use it for everything. Fight that temptation and use this module only when there is no other great module for such thing.

I will be reviewing some other modules and components too so stop by again...

Top 25 free icon set sources

1. Crystal Clear Icon set


2. Website Icons


3. Ganato Design


4. Color Cons


5. Kombine free set


6. Greyscale icons


7. Twotone Icons


8. Sweetie Icons


9. Bitcons


10. Marko's free icon set


11. Silk icons


12. Mini-pixel icons


13. Proxal Icon Set


14. IconArchive - collection of icon sets

15. Design Magus


16. Mini Icons


17. Feed iliti RSS icons


18. KNeu Icon Set


19. Tango set


20. Drunkey Love Iconset


21. Strawbee Tiny Little Icons


22. Markup mIcons


23. IconBee

24. Iconfinder - search for icons

25. InterfaceLIFT

General mistake that Joomla users do

I haven't been writing here for a while because I was on vacation and when I got back I had to work on redesign of one of my blogs.

But I'm back!

Today I would like to point out the general mistake that people often do with Joomla and other CMS.

Most people that start using some CMS don't know much about JavaScript, PHP and other programming languages (I was also one of them). They think that it's enough to install Joomla, to learn from Joomla tutorials and that everything will be OK.

That is maybe true if you use only the Joomla itself without extra add-ons which are available, but as soon as you start using add-ons for Joomla, you see how little you actually know.

The point is that most free add-ons that you can find online are made by different persons and with different programming language and some languages "don't like each other".

For example - if you install module for Joomla which uses prototype and later on install some other component which uses mootools, one of the add-ons or both will not work or will not work properly.

So, if you have your Joomla installed nicely and are installing bunch of other add-ons, stop for a second and reconsider which modules and components do you really need and how are they made? Do they correspond to other add-ons which are already installed?

And if some add-on is not working properly, contact the person that made that add-on, try to see why it's not working for you. Don't just give it up. The mistake doesn't have to be in that add-on.

Loader Generator

Crazy about Ajax and those load buttons?

Here are some cute loaders which you can customize and download for your fancy web pages...

LoadInfo.net

H1 element in Joomla 1.0x

Have you ever noticed that Joomla doesn't use H1 element, but instead, it uses .componentheading and .contentheading?

Do you want to use H1 as heading on your Joomla page?

If the answer is yes, then read on...

If your not sure and think "Why should I use H1 in headings of my content?" then you should read more about SEO... In short, Google loves H1. Content that is surrounded by H1 tags is the content that it is important for that page. An what is more important than headlines of your articles.

So, in order to define H1 in google you have to do the following...

Using your FTP manager, go in backend of your Joomla folders... Joomla/components/com_content

You can see two php files there. In both of them search for "heading"... there should be a few contentheadings and componentheadings. Put H1 tag there, so that it looks something like this:

In your css file define the look of the headings...

Off course, you can define H2 or H3 tags in the same way. It's all up to you...