What are Floating Labels? Floating labels are a UI design pattern often used in form fields where the placeholder text for an input field moves or "floats" above the field as the user starts typing. This pattern was popularized by Google’s Material Design guidelines ..read more

The following outlines my personal wish list of proposed enhancements and new features for Joomla 6, categorized by functionality and addressing both user needs and potential technical considerations. They are in no specific order ..read more

Joomla's template override functionality allows users to customize the default layout of components, modules, and views, providing extensive flexibility for creating unique designs. Managing template overrides effectively will minimize maintenance challenges on updates ..read more

Have you ever shared a link on Facebook only to find the thumbnail was missing, or there was a different picture than you expected? If you don't explicitly tell Facebook what image to use then it makes a guess ..read more

Last night I gave an online presentation to the German speaking Joomla user group. The idea of this presentation is to make sure that you are making your life using Joomla as easy as possible. We're adding new features to Joomla all the time but are you actually using them ..read more

In this tutorial I will be building on the full screen home page design that I demonstrated in Joomla home page with full screen image to create a more native app look to the template. As before everything I am going to show here could have been done by creating my own template but as I wanted to ensure that it would be future proof I have done it with CSS and core Joomla functionality.  Caveat: I am not a front end developer so I am sure there are many other ways to achieve the same thing - this is just how I did it. The objective Create a more native app experience when viewing th ..read more

Everything I am going to show here could have been done by creating my own template but as I wanted to ensure that it would be future proof I have done it with CSS, a tiny bit of javascript, and existing Cassiopeia template options.  ..read more

Over the last few weeks I have been rebuilding a joomla website that was built with a pagebuilder using just core Joomla and the core Cassiopeia template. This wasn't for a client, it was just as an exercise to satisfy my own belief that you don't need a pagebuilder ..read more

There is a place and a time for everything. The current trend is to use Generative AI and LLM (large language models) for everything, but we're not there yet. Although technically inaccurate I will refer to this as AI throughout this article ..read more

Why are you using a so-called page builder when Joomla has everything you probably need right in the box? Don't know what I am talking about - well it's a fairly hidden feature of the TinyMCE editor called Content Templates ..read more