Due to lack of interest in my destop projects (PlainHTML, ShutDownerXP, and newly, WE editor), i decided to shut down all activity regarding desktop projects, this time for good.
In the meantime, i've found my code editor of choice, in the great Eclipse editor, so this is another reason not to develop "yet another web editor". Many third-party components used in my projects are too much buggy, to continue development, some of them outdated, and i don't have time to fix them all. It's a waste of my time, and it will lead to nothing. I'm committing my time to PHP development from this time forward.
The BWS project will be cut down to a minimum, and the forum section will be shut down. I will archive the site, and remove pretty much everything not related to PHP development and web design.
I am introducing a new feature: Logging in with GMail account credentials.
I believe, this will be a good idea, since it won't require to register on the BWS site.
I began to upload some new kind of stuff, widening the content scope of this site. When new information is too valuable to be collected by different content bots, i will put them behind authentication.
User accounts created for the forum are member accounts, thus enabling for you to see these internal articles.
There is a new template available on BWS: Silver Plating
This is a new template for larger sites, portals, community sites, galleries, etc.
Old web templates were dropped, because they are out-of-date did not comply with today's standards, and many more reasons.
Those templates will not be available anymore.
If you are a Joomla! user, you already had your web site(s) infected by some kind of malware, or just injected with some ad code.
This is really annoying, and some times requires to rebuild your site from scratch.
Here is a way of securing your Joomla! installation.
Well, we've got it! Joomla! 1.6 just came out. It's shiny, with new features, supports multilanguage sites and a few of it's good third-party components are already updated for it, such as Kunena Forum (which i like and use). J! 1.5 templates ar working with a tiny editing in the templateDetails XML file.
That's OK!
But!
This one requires some PHP knowledge.
Today i installed Prestashop and i’ve got a lot of trouble with lots of backslashes in an otherwise valid SQL query. Somehow i’ve managed to get thru it by altering the installation code and removing the addslashes functions. I know it’s not the best way, but it worked for me.
CMS means Content Management System (meaning: you can add, change, remove content from your site, with simple word processing knowledge)
This article assumes that you have a minimal knowledge in editing CMS based websites, resizing and uploading images, word processing.
You probably got your website ready made by either a professional web design company, either you got it from a free web service provider, it may have a facility that lets you add new content to your page without any technical (meaning programming/HTML, CSS) skills.
This is a very good thing, BUT it has drawbacks. I will explain them below.
Read more: What you shouldn't ever do on your CMS based website