Where Are Those Templates

Posted on June 17, 2007
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Joomla, Open Realty, WordPress Templates

All this time about the templates and shame on me for not being clear that those templates Real Estate related are all listed on The Brokers Edge under “Template Inventory”. That section will be turned on and off as I finish the redesign.

All other templates will be (not there yet) on ASiteAbove.com and or TemplateDesignKit.com. This blog is just my personal place to rant, show a few things and list occasional templates.

FREE WordPress Tutorials

Posted on June 13, 2007
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WordPress 2.2 Tutorials

Free WordPress 2.2 Tutorials are available on The Brokers Edge Forums for basic subjects at this point. After careful consideration of the topic inventory we wanted to cover I’ll be mainly directing the blogging tips and tricks in general terms rather than focusing on any particular industry.

~ Not to be confused with wordpresstutorials elsewhere.

Migrating WordPress 2.2 to Joomla

Posted on May 18, 2007
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Joomla and SEF Advanced to replace WordPress 2.2

Yep, I’ve mentioned it before and this weekend this site will be migrated to a Joomla site and the blog will be moved to the /blog directory as I prepare to start publishing dozens and dozens of templates and other resources for download.

WordPress is certainly up to the task especially when considering using the WordPress Loop as a mini CMS system. I am a real fan of WordPress more so than ever before as I delve into it for some personal projects I’ve had tucked away for a long time. But WordPress as versatile an effective as it may be does not have a feature I most like about Joomla, the ability to designate menu positions on a page by page basis.

Joomla will give my new design and site some critical features specific to my long planned objective. I’ve wanted to publish tutorials, videos, templates and other resources for download to members where I can change the theme or template ever so slightly to reflect a unique look depending on the area of my site you are in. If for instance you will be visiting the tutorials area the tutorials template is what will be displayed and I can organize the menu’s a lot quicker than using WordPress, which also has the capability of individualized menu structures per “page” not “post” .

So I’m back to work to finish the WordPress projects I’ve started for clients and then over to complete the Forum design on TBE and then back here.

PAY CLOSE ATTENTION to the URL’s. I’m going to use it as an example of how to preserve links and page rank while switching systems and I’ll provide a quick link list page in Joomla to demonstrate how it all works. So often people tell me they don’t want to migrate their site to Joomla for fear of losing their much valued and established indexing of existing links. Well I’m happy to tell you its very possible to preserve every single link regardless if its ASP, HTM, HTML, PHP, or some other flavor of file extension.

Webmaster Client Management Tool

Posted on May 15, 2007
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Web Designers, Hosting, and Webmaster Client Tool

Man I despise losing things or forgetting what DVD I do an archive to when I backup my system. I’ve always wanted to have the resources at my finger tips to manage projects, clients and modified code elements all wrapped up into one convenient application. The problem has been that no such application worked exactly as I want it to. So I created a fast and dirty one using MS Access which is going to get some professional treatment and you are more than welcome to a copy of it.

It solves problems for WordPress, Joomla, vBulletin and other application administrators woes.

Before you say, big stinking deal how stupid is that, learn what it was created to solve.

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Where Beauty Meets The Web™

Posted on January 25, 2007
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noneDesign that inspires, motivates and captivates! A central theme in a new series of tutorials being published at CSS Design Magic where entry level web design students can get a solid working foundation on the fundamentals of design.

Inspired by the works at the MEGA popular CSS Zen Garden, several associate programmers and designers will be providing amazing detail oriented tutorials in FLV and Flash format beginning in March of this year. Professional Illustrator Jeremy Farlow was commissioned to provided the first series of the illustrated site character titled “Project Britney” and will be featured in an implementation of FlashChat as an AI-BOT developed by Darren Gates of Tufat.com.

One mans loss is another mans gain, as the “Project Britney” SitePal™ alternative has been abandoned due to cost, her character will be featured as an icon throughout this site and the new CSS Design Magic site as we commission additional variants to be illustrated.

Some of you may recall that we had planned to launch OpenSourceUniversity AKA OpenSourceU.org but could not garner the support from developers who originally offered to produce tutorials for the project. So now, www.opensourceu.org is up for sale and includes all logos, existing templates and our tutorial contributions.

We look forward to your participation and feedback.

Getting Started!

Posted on January 24, 2007
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Well this is my new home now that after 4 years, Jared’s Designs has been abandoned in order to take a new direction in my design career.

This blog and my new domains are a reflection of many years of anticipation for my design objective.

Now that I’m working almost exclusively for The Brokers Edge, I’ll be publishing down loadable templates as inventory items in addition to the template design kit, due out this spring.

To get started, I’ll publish a few portfolio items until I install my portfolio pages.

~ Jared

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