List of Font Awesomehttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/list-of-font-awesome.html

04 September 2015 on image quality or overhead maintenance. It's basically a font set that has all the icons you would want in a modern website design. How? To use this list, you can either: Copy the font files to your template folder (my preference) and add the linked...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Web-Development
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CSS Background Without Causing Scrollbarshttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/css/css-background-without-causing-scrollbars.html

23 April 2011 note in case I spend as long as I did again. A Client had some clouds on the background of his photoshop file for his website. They were to be positioned in the top right corner with the leftmost tip aligned to the right of a central content section. I...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Cascading Stylesheets
• Language: en-GB

Background Gradient Disappears on Long Pageshttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/css/background-disappears-on-long-pages.html

20 November 2012 issue happened when using Google Chrome v23 or MS Internet Explorer v8 (so Webkit and MSIE appear to be affected). If your website consists of small pages then ignore this issue as it's unlikely to happen on your site.

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Cascading Stylesheets
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Three boxes, two roll over, one falls outhttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/css/three-boxes-two-roll-over-one-falls-out.html

21 January 2013 1 pixel left over, more the fact that the scripts use that 1 pixel (ceiling rather than floor?). Why? We have a row on a website of three boxes made of div layers. When viewed normally on a 15" Laptop, all was good using Chrome and tolerable using MS...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Cascading Stylesheets
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Room with a view E.M. Forsterhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/room-with-a-view-em-forster.html?catid=96&Itemid=165

04 February 2011 Taking a break from website migrations. Thought I'd share some thoughts I was reminiscing of: "We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Hobbies
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MS Excel: Convert a text to a numberhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ms-excel-convert-a-text-to-a-number.html?catid=110&Itemid=165

15 November 2013 Even if I tell it to multiply by 1, Microsoft Excel gets confused and reports an error?!?!?!? The answer on the Microsoft website is as helpful as the Microsoft paperclip, in other words, not worth the time or effort to try (didn't work anyway). The...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Excel
• Language: en-GB

Excel: convert degrees minutes seconds to decimalhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/excel-convert-degrees-minutes-seconds-to-decimal.html?catid=110&Itemid=165

06 November 2014 Base 40°8′57″N 116°19′17″E Beijing Tongxian Air Base 39°48′40″N 116°42′30″E Note that I tend to copy the coordinates off a website which has strange apostrophes and double-quotes. You can change this but remember to put two double-quotes if you are...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Excel
• Language: en-GB

Checklist for the local computer repairshttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/checklist-for-the-local-computer-repairs.html?catid=116&Itemid=165

28 April 2011 Business Cards Extra RAM (to charge for) Extra Cables (again to charge for) Service: Software installs at flat price Website development per hourly rate Computer repair per hourly rate "I always had work order forms in duplicate. Right above the...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: IT Support
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Zoho Deluge - Pad with leading Zeroshttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge/zoho-deluge-pad-with-leading-zeros.html

07 February 2020 may be other articles out there documenting this but I can't keep trying to find these in Google so referring to my own website, this is a doddle for me to find each time. Why? I have to do this so often that it deserves an article. Though writing a...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho Deluge
• Language: en-GB

Joomla - How to preview module positions in a given templatehttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/joomla-how-to-preview-module-positions-in-a-given-template.html

02 April 2010 1 and TAB 4 etc..." To open a web-browser window or tab with this preview, type the following in the address bar after your website URL: http://www.yourdomainname.com/index.php?tp=1&template=thetemplatename where yourdomainname.com is your domain...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: en-GB

Link to a Joomla article from within another articlehttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/link-to-a-joomla-article-from-within-another-article.html

04 December 2012 This article is to demonstrate how to write the webaddress for a Joomla article even when you have Search-engine-friendly website addresses enabled. How? Basically you have to include &view=article as opposed to Joomla v1.5.x when the option and id...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: en-GB

Disable User Registration in Joomla 1.5 - Configuration Filehttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/disable-user-registration-in-joomla-1-5-configuration-file.html

08 October 2013 It isn't in the configuration.php file prior to Joomla! v1.6.x but in the database. Open the database to the Joomla 1.5.x website Browse the table "jos_components" (or "#__components" where "#_" is the site table prefix. default is "jos"). Open the row...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: en-GB

Forgotten Super User Password in Joomla 2.5.x - 3.xhttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/forgotten-super-user-password-in-joomla.html

06 February 2015 as a client had lost their super user password. How? This method is reliant on having access to the database of your Joomla website. Method #1: Quickest way I know This is based on if you have another user account (registered or administrator, any) with...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: en-GB

SSIS: Add Reference Microsoft.SqlServer.TxScripthttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssis-add-reference-microsoft-sqlserver-txscript.html?catid=74&Itemid=165

03 June 2014 assembly is when creating an SSIS custom component. How? This is simply the "Script Component" under "Extensions". No MSDN website said this... obvious to Microsoft staff so why should their documentation include it? Workaround (applies for any dll) You...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Integration Services
• Language: en-GB

Mootools - How to contain a menu sidebar between header and footerhttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/mootools/mootools-how-to-contain-a-menu-sidebar-between-header-and-footer.html

10 August 2012 This has taken me too long to figure out and I hope I don't lose this note again. The only website that was titled similarly kept slowing down my computer too much so I decided to work out my own. The complexity is due to content also being dynamically...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MooTools Framework
• Language: en-GB

Prices get rounded up in Virtuemarthttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/e-commerce/virtuemart/prices-get-rounded-up-in-virtuemart.html

27 September 2009 This happened to a m8s website in VirtueMart 1.1.3. The issue here was that although all the prices lost their float/decimal and were rounded up to the nearest integer... At first we thought this was due to installing a Virtuemart UK Credit Card...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Virtuemart
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