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Am giving UniformServer a shot and I gotta say, I like it MORE than my previous installation of WampServer2.2.

I remember using XAMPP years ago. I don't remember why I stopped using it. WampServer2.2 has worked well for me. I just figured out (needed to) how to create subdomains for a site project I was using Arch as my primary OS and Win7 as the secondary. But my wife hated to stand by to press 'down' and urged that I remove Linux, so I did. I'll give Journal a shot ... VirtualBox to the rescue!

Hi all! I'm no stranger to developing locally on my computer, in fact, I prefer it! I currently have WampServer2.2 on my 64bit Win 7 Ultimate 4GB RAM. Lots of testing virtualhosts and some subdomains. For some reason, I can't get ProcessWire to work properly on subdomains (but what's not what this topic is about). From time to time, I experiment with Linux. Just over this past Christmas I was heavily into Arch and some of its variants. Previously Linux Mint, Ubuntu, etc. I have many application licenses on Windows that fully switching to Linux and finding alternatives will be impossible. But I do tinker in Linux from time to time throughout the year and I keep coming back to Windows simply because running Win in a VirtualBox on Linux is a little slow. I have run into numerous tutorials/walkthroughs/guides etc. that show how to build a decent lamp-stack for web development - and I have done that numerous times. howtoforge.com has many examples! But I wanted to ask the tech geeks here on one of my favorite forums Which do YOU PREFER? 1. Windows + WAMP/XAMPP (100% Windows dependency) 2. Windows + VirtualBox & LAMP? 3. Linux (or Mac) + VirtualBox & Win 4. a complete LAMP or MAMP stack (zero Windows reliance) Again, I've used all the above, and tinkered beyond my hearts content in both environments. I just wanted to start a little discussion to find out how others have their LAMPs set up.

@cmscritic What is the current CMS for the site?

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I'm a little STUCK and can't seem to find my error! http://wiki.processwire.com/index.php/Simple_News_System#Creating_News I have followed the Tutorial twice today and both times, the drop down meny for 'Category' is empty.

Very good point teppo. I had not thought of that. I guess I'll be moving all my css and js to the site folder

"3- Is it possible to have site assets (css, js etc) stored in a folder /assets in the root?" Yes, I prefer to do that. you just link to the files accordingly. You don't HAVE TO keep them in the "/site/" folder.

GREAT advice! That's why I think it's a good idea that everyone (at least once in their design lives) code their own css framework.

Whether you choose HTML Kickstart, Foundation, Bootstrap, Goldilocks, something else or you roll your own. Everyone will have their favorite CSS framework. Rather than try this one or that one, I suggest you learn ONE and learn it really WELL!!! I used to think that all Twitter Bootstrap sites looked like every other Twitter Bootstrap site. But lately I've been seeing some pretty awesome designs. I'm also a big fan of Foundation. Been using it since version 2.

ALL TIME FAVORITE, hahaha.

woohoo glad i could help!

There was a thread elsewhere concerning some type of showcase for ProcessWire sites. I found the following in my G+ feed today

Symphony CMS? Are you confusing ProcessWire with another CMS, or are you trying to get ProcessWire to work alongside SymphonyCMS?

That's what I do. Each new project I have some "starter files" that I begin with. It's nothing more than a fresh install of ProcessWire with template files removed and a fresh database dump.

*EXCELLENT* Thank you diogo!

Is this still a good solution? I'd be interested in trying it out. Can you also share the backup_restore.class.php file?

How difficult would it be to export a page, for example, as *.css? I had this idea earlier and thought it would be pretty cool to create a page and have it exported as css where I could could insert a different color, background image, etc. I read up on Ryans Pro Cache module and that caches the entire site, right? I guess what I'm looking for is something similar, but only for CSS.

Thanks for the links! Here are some I have bookmarked: 01. http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/the-best-way-to-learn-php/ 02. http://php.net/manual/en/getting-started.php 03. https://phpacademy.org/ 04. http://www.coursehero.com/courses/5/Intro-To-PHP/#intro 05. https://tutsplus.com/course/php-fundamentals/ 06. http://net.tutsplus.com/sessions/codeigniter-from-scratch/

I stumbled upon this by mistake. I was actually looking for a method that would export a static page with a CSS extension, thereby allowing total control of "editable style sections" of a site. I'm gonna check out Ryans Pro Cache module. Maybe that'll give me some idea.

Typekit and FontSquirrel are two different technologies. Typekit uses webfonts. FontSquirrel uses @font-face. Check out their FAQ: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/faq Basically you can browse their site and download a font. Turn around and use their Font Generator. http://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator It creates web friendly fonts variations for you to use in a ZIP file, along with a sample demo page. Here is a small example on how to use @font-face. http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/using-font-face/ Personally I bought a year subscription with Typekit, because they offer some commercial fonts that are not allowed to use with @font-face.

There is another post going around titled "Repository of php Scripts for Templates" -> http://processwire.com/talk/topic/1018-repository-of-php-scripts-for-templates/ Maybe we can take this opportunity to post little addon snippets to the above news/articles "gizmo", lol, I don't know what to call it, gizmo felt appropriate! I've got the above downloaded and installing later. If I make any changes, I'll tidy things up and I'd like to share them here.

THAT IS VERY COOL. I'm seriously looking to do something like that.

If I use this snippet (taken from http://processwire.com/talk/topic/2956-two-domains-same-content-two-sets-of-templates/?p=29139 ) Thank you Soma! if($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'mywebsite.com'){ include('this_template.php'); } elseif ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'mywebsite.net') { include('that_template.php'); } Then I could in theory operate my site like a multisite, and provide different content based on which template is being served?!