Drowning in information, searching for knowledge

Posted September 26th, 2008 by admin

A historical perspective of eZ publish and thoughts on 3D information.
This week, I found some nice articles regarding eZ publish on sitepoint.com. And oh so much more interesting, matched up the look and url structure of sitepoint, to a default eZ publish 3.9 install. Wonder which CMS provides the foundation for sitepoint?
Also noticed how [...]

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Wordpress tag cloud

Posted September 16th, 2008 by admin

Tag clouds are a valuable user interface enhancement for information that does not fall in a nice treelike hierarchy.
Put the code below where you want the cloud to appear.
<?php wp_tag_cloud(’smallest=8&largest=36&’); ?>
Thanks to hackwordpress.com

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Playing with layouts - ez.no

Posted September 12th, 2008 by admin

 
From a base 4.0.1 install using eZ Flow..
Remove the Live video top level menu item.
In the admin interface..
Click the Folder for “Live Video”->Advanced->hide/unhide, it is a toggle.
Refresh the user view and note that Live Video has vanished from the website.
 
Now add a new top level menu item.
**Important, when creating new objects, the type is always [...]

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Baby steps with your new ez.no site and eZ flow extension

Posted September 10th, 2008 by admin

1.  Change the logo
a.  login to the admin interface (../ezflow_site_admin/)
b.  Design tab.
i.  ”Look and feel”, click that text
ii.  Click the “Edit” button for the ez-flow site
iii.  Edit <eZ Flow> [Template look], change the settings to suit, upload your logo. “Send for publishing” when finished.
2.  Change the background graphic.
../extension/ezflow/design/ezflow/images/page-bg.jpg
Notice that ezflow - the layout, is an [...]

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EZ.NO on Mediatemple

Posted September 3rd, 2008 by admin

//fix the database, ez wants utf8, mediatemple help docs leave out the text after COLLATE causing SQL error
ALTER DATABASE `dbhere` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci
//create .htaccess with the below values, AcceptPathInfo may be redundant with url_fopen enabled
AddHandler php5-script .php
php_value allow_url_fopen 1
php_value date.timezone America/Chicago
AcceptPathInfo On

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