Background: Every page on the website is known within the Joomla framework as an article. Articles are structured in a hierarchical manner using categories and subcategories (to any depth). For example, News is a category, with Events/News, Outside the Village, and Notices as subcategories. Group...
The FHA website has a number of ways Fearrington affinity groups can have a “presence” of their own. This document will spell out the mechanics of helping a new group get started. Bulletin Board and FHA Newsletter Anyone (with a website login) can use the website's Bulletin...
We all know that there are many and varied ways determined trackers like marketeers and stalkers can access anyone's personal contact information, even if the information is carefully guarded. The Experian hack, which exposed personal information for some 140 million people demonstrates that the information...
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You may have heard the term "object-oriented programming". This refers to a programmong style that recognizes common situations that arise in a programming application, and utilizes a programming language's support for "objectivizing" these common situations is such a way that the same code can be...
When someone needs to be able to create, edit and delete website articles on the FGA website their User record must be updated to give them these privilege levels. This is very simple to do: Logon to the administrator section of the website. Open the...
This article will provide an introduction to the FHA Directory (and Handbook, to use its official title), or D&HB. As mentioned in the printed directory, the entirety of the D&HB between the outer covers is printed from material stored on, and accessible to, residents who...
I just learned that the Joomla Protostar template, a modified copy of which I built the FHA website, uses version 2 of the Bootstrap framework (for responsive-to-small-screen templates). The latest version of Bootstrap, and the one discussed on the w3schools.com website is version 3. Version...
This document outlines the functions of the FHA website. There are two main categories of website content on the site: "Pure" Joomla (Content Management System) articles created with built-in Joomla editor facilities, and supplemental FHA-specific content comprised of mostly PHP server-side code (about 60,000 lines...
Here are items of housekeeping to be done once before directory is printed for residents' review, and once again before final print copy is generated. All cleanup is to ensure the directory can be displayed and printed correctly, as expected. Corrections are needed because users...