I’m trying to put up a quick mambo site for the Waitakere BMX club. I like solar flare but wanted something a bit easier on the eye for this site so went hunting for free templates.
Below is a list of some of the sites I found helpful along the way. I’m really grateful to all those who make templates available!
The old “warn your friends” emails seem to be doing the rounds again. So before you send me emails with garbled context like this consider if the virus is really the problem or if your own system is making it harder for you to detect them…
Forgetting for a second that it’s a cardinal sin to set values in $_GET, $_POST or $_REQUEST I’ve found an interesting little thing… or maybe I’m only finding it now because I don’t commit cardinal sins…
When you are writing a custom module or component for Mambo you can have parameters which are set in the Admin control panel and feed through to the application at run time. This allows the same code to have separate instances with distinct differences.
The major forums seem to have nasty little threads popping up left, right and centre about corruption at DMOZ. It’s hard to believe there’s anything other than the occasional individual having a go, but some are claiming orchestrated campaigns.
I found this quote from Metacentric today
“Many people visit your Web site once and never return. Like a holiday romance, it’s nice while it lasts but a poor return on your Internet investment. RSS news feeds stretch your Web site out over time and help build a long term relationship with the people that use your site.”
and it started me thinking that there are two types of bloggers