Tips

07
September
2012

Adding Custom Fonts to Appcelerator

Adding Custom Fonts to Appcelerator

When it comes to developing apps it is important to put emphasis on the UI. Just take a look around at all the succesful apps that have taken old concepts and put them in a shiny pretty new interface (Sparrow, Flashlight, etc.). So when you are developing your app you need to make sure you have your UI covered, one of the key things being typography. With Appcelerator you can add in custom fonts fairly easily (especially since Titanium Mobile 2.1 sdk). Here is how you can set up a custom font for your Appcelerator iOS app.

Written by: Josh Miller Categories: Tips

21
August
2012

How to Connect Your Joomla Main Menu With Your Side Menu

Building your Joomla menu with Aliases

How to Connect Your Joomla Main Menu With Your Side Menu

When it comes to developing your website you always have to be thinking with SEO (Search Engine Optimization) in mind. A big part of that is your URL structure and making sure that you create Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URL's. Today we are going to take a look at how you can create your menu's in Joomla have the correct structure.

We will take a look at how you can build your menu structure that combines multiple connected menus. Mainly how to use a main menu in conjunction with a side menu on your different pages.

Written by: Josh Miller Categories: Tips

18
August
2012

Setting Up Your Google Services

Setting Up Your Google Services

In this day and age companies have to adapt their business to work in the cloud. To be able to share data, projects, and files across an entire company. One of the most prominent services out there is the Google Apps suite. It is an awesome cloud based structure that is built by one of the biggest data companies in our world today. You can get reliable services for your small business at a minimal to no cost. Here is a video series on how to use and set up these Google services.

Written by: Josh Miller Categories: Tips

06
August
2012

How to FTP to an IP Address

How to FTP to an IP Address

This is a very simple tutorial today, but it has been proved useful many times. When you are setting up a new website you sometimes don't have your domain name, instead all you have is an IP Address. Well, you are able to access your site on the front end but how do you FTP up your files? You can't put in a URL for your host, so what do you do?

Written by: Josh Miller Categories: Tips

30
July
2012

How to Add the jQuery Library to Your Joomla Website

How to Add the jQuery Library to Your Joomla Website

jQuery has risen to the top in its category of javascript libraries. No other js library powers more websites than jQuery. On top of it being just jQuery it has multiple distributions such as jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile. Both of which have become huge success in the web world. So what happens when you combine the awesome power of jQuery with Joomla? Well, it's easy to see why so many people love it.

Written by: Josh Miller Categories: Tips

18
July
2012

Insert an Array to an SQLite Database in Appcelerator

When it comes to building out your mobile application chances are you need to store data, the fastest and easiest way in Appcelerator is through an SQLite database. This is a very simple and light weight solution that provides an easy way to store data. The problem is it can be somewhat hard to work with when writing javascript based queries. Here are some useful snippets that I have collected to make using SQLite a little easier.

Written by: Josh Miller Categories: Tips

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