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Someone asked me for the calendar template that we used for Sun Country on the Murray so I thought I would post it here. Download the CGCalendar template here CGCalendar is a calendar module for CMSMS. To get it to work, copy the contents of “Calendar Display Template.txt” into the “Calendar Templates” template. And add [...]

A quick checklist on how to convert a static site to a CMS Made Simple powered site: Install CMSMS (instructions here) Add in the template and enter all the tags Add in the stylesheets Link the stylesheet to the template Add the pages Create the menu template Done!

I have a site where I’m using the products module. The company I’m doing it for runs specials every now and then, and wants them to show up as a page on the site. So what I did was create a category “specials”, and when a product is in that, it shows up on the [...]

So I’m working on a project where people that are completely computer illiterate will be using a WYSIWYG box. I didn’t want them pasting from word and it keeping all the messy html from word. I found this config to work very well. tinyMCE.init({ mode : “textareas”, theme : “advanced”, plugins : “paste”, editor_selector : [...]

In one of the sites I’m working on, there is a large featured image that is different for each product page, but is the same for the rest of the pages on the site. Heres how I did it. 1. In each page where you need a different featured image, go to the options tab, [...]

I remember in uni, we had a topic about “expectations”. Firstly, through marketing communications, the marketer sets the expectation for the product or service. If you deliver on the expectations, the customer is satisfied. If you under deliver on expectations, the customer is dissatisfied. If you over deliver on expectations, the customer is pleased, happy, [...]

I was talking to someone today and the conversation touched on the topic of poker. I played a lot of poker during my uni years and while I wasn’t earning massive amounts off it, I made over 30k in about 2 years. Without knowing my background, the person I was talking to said something to [...]

Reading books is something i love doing and wish I would do more of. Over the last couple of days I’ve been in a bit of a reading frenzy and read 37 Signals’ new book Rework by Jason Friend and David Heinemeier Hanson and “Click” by Ori and Rom Brafman and I thought I’d share [...]

I was speaking to a friend yesterday about making a website for a motel. I was saying that of all mum/pop type businesses, motels have got the most to gain from a good website and search engine marketing, but that a lot of them have shitty websites that are not SEO’d. While I would say [...]

So today, the iPad was released in Australia. I want one, so I went to an electronics store and asked for one. The shop assistant looked at me like I was weird. They didn’t have them in, and didn’t know when they were getting them in. So I went to another electronics store. This one, [...]