Michael Rohde

In several of my articles, amongst the discussion of website coding for HTML5 and CSS3, I’ve referred to the importance of checking your website analytics for the purpose of optimizing your site. For example, when adding social networking buttons to your pages, your analytics console can help guide you as to which sites are bringing […]

Social networking is the modern term for an age-old advertising technique–word-of-mouth–that has endured through the test of time. The principle behind word-of-mouth advertising, or social networking, is simple: people trust their friends’ and family’s opinion of a product more than they do a professional advertisement made in a far-off city by people they never met. […]

You’d be hard pressed these days to find a website that doesn’t use images. However, not all sites use images in the best possible way. Images should be used to help interaction with a site, to provide additional information and to help with aesthetics. There are several methods you can use to optimize the images […]

In the past, my website design work has either been so basic that the formatting would appear similar on any browser, or I was using something like BEA’s AquaLogic web portal system or Joomla! templates; in those cases the templates took care of the differences in multiple browsers for me. But now, most recently, I’ve […]

In my last article, I took an existing web page that was created using table tags and I updated it to use divs in the CSS. Well, it turns out that the client who requested the work liked it so much that they wanted the same web page on a second site of theirs, except […]

It’s hard to imagine that some web developers are still using table tags for web page layouts. But there are still some out there that do. This article will guide you through how to upgrade a web page that uses table tags and improve it through CSS. I was recently asked by the Principal Consultant […]

Here are a couple of CSS3 techniques that can help you format lists and tables, especially if your site tends to have long lists and you don’t like using traditional bullets. The problem with long lists is that they become monotonous rather quickly. Hopefully, a bit of CSS3 will help improve the style of the […]

Not all Joomla templates are created equal. Templates that you buy or download for free online have different features. This is especially true with the modules and the associated features. Let’s say for example that you purchased a template like Fiction from Joomshaper. This particular template contains a module called, mod_joom_ns1. That name in itself […]

If you’re creating your own Joomla! template from scratch, you’ll want to know how to add in a menu. There’s more than one way to create a menu in Joomla!, but I’m going to walk you through creating a menu off the default and pre-installed Main Menu. One of the first things to understand about […]

In my past articles on creating a Joomla! Template from scratch, you might be noticing a few missing details. This article should fill in some of those missing details for not only your CSS file but also your index.php file. In particular, this article will address getting the module and article titles to appear and […]

Let’s say you scoured the internet looking for that perfect Joomla! template and you found one that fits 99% of your needs. However, there could be one lacking element to the template that you wish you could fix. For example, let’s say the template you chose doesn’t have a Left position. Instead, the template has […]

In my last article, “Create a Joomla! Template From Scratch,” I provided a rough outline and somewhat incomplete code on how to create a Joomla! template. I had to do that on purpose for this is going to be a long and iterative process. I hope you stick around for the complete ride. If you […]