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  1. Here is a huge list http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php using htaccess is probably the best method. Something like Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteRule (.*) http://yoursite.com/newpage/$1 [R=301,L]
  2. Yes, a couple of us got to here having played with Joomla + Seblod, which I found horribly frustrating. Yes, this does require more actual writing of code than those do, but the result is so much lighter, faster and yet more powerful, that it is quite liberating - especially that once you output your data it is so easy to display it in any way you like, with any framework you like and with any JS or JQuery plugin you want and so on. I will say though that I spent so much time with Joomla and CCKs trying to bend them to what I actually wanted to do, that PW was actually QUICKER to work with. And, of course, any functionality you create will be EXACTLY what the client wants rather than a compromise. Trust me, you will never go back.
  3. Just thinking about one of Ryan's sites where he used two installations - one for input and the other for output (as far as I can remember). Might be overkill, but perhaps worth looking into that approach? Not sure how he did it!
  4. Welcome! Two little questions that have rather large answers, to be honest. First of all, I suggest that you ignore front end for the moment till you get your head round the rest of the process (see what I did there?) The key to ProcessWire is the incredibly powerful APi which allows you to build any functionality - Form Builder is a module that allows you to create front end forms very easily, but they can also be built manually. So, I suggest you do one or other of the tutorials in the Wiki just to get the hang of how the system works and as a very basic introduction to the API http://wiki.processwire.com/index.php/Main_Page Next step is to look at the API (linked on the top menu) and especially the Cheat Sheet. http://cheatsheet.processwire.com/ That will give you a clue to how much is possible with ProcessWire. The point with PW is that it is not quite an out-of-the-box solution like the Drumlapress mob, but it allows you a lot more versatility and does not shoehorn you into one particular way of working. Having said that, it is not a scarily complicated system either - many of us started using it with very little development knowledge, but have found it manageable and we have learned a huge amount. And had fun in the process.(I did it again..!") So, get your hands dirty with the tutorials and then ask any specific questions you need - you will find the people on the forums here are, quite uniquely, rather better than boring old docs!
  5. I give them to Soma to eat .... he is so underfed, you know.
  6. Target blank tells the browser to open a new tab/window Edit: Like wot Diogo said.
  7. I was just wondering what a mixture of Portuguese and Dutch sounded like, but realised I probably sounded like that back in my drinking days....
  8. Ah, I keep forgetting you are up in the North Western wilderness. Warm here today, even warmer over the weekend. Lots done on the veggie patch. http://www.foodloversdiary.com/allotment-diary/2014-and-the-allotment-is-go/
  9. Well, that all depends in which timezone you thought your were in when you thought you posted that.
  10. I'm a processwire user .... and an MS Office user and an Adobe CC user. As much as possible I try and stay on one platform otherwise my old brain gets very confused.
  11. I did last year for fun (and a couple of others) - but my benchmark is that it has to be usable by the rest of the family without them learning anything at all. My "teens" have zero interest in anything to do with computers beyond using them and having the same dancing gnomes as their friends. I also use Onedrive, but I actually edit on the full version of office because not all the writing tools I need are on the web version. I think there is also an issue about installing software - with windows and mac there is the assumption (a good one) that when users install stuff they do no want to know anything about the tech side at all. They want to hit one button and go. That is not consistent with Linux at all - with some software it is as simple as Windows, then with others you suddenly need to add repositories, find dependencies and so on and so forth ... at the end of which my lot have gone off clubbing and want nothing more to do with it.
  12. The main problem for people transitioning to Linux is it simply does not have many of the applications they want, like MS Office. Even with Libre Office working hard to make itself more up to date, the gulf between it and MS office continues to grow - it is one huge achilles heel. And Mac's have made it even worse for Linux - people like not only the interface and the drop-in App style method of working, but they like the entire culture that goes with it. I know Linux purists tend to poo-poo that side, but actually it is really important to people on a device that has become so much part of their lives. They want it to be slick and cool like they want their games consoles to have pretty boxes or want their cars to talk to them. People like fashion, they like trendy, they like the "in thing," and that is not a bad thing, it is human nature. People wont buy because something is more stable or is technically more pure, they will buy it because it is capable of doing really silly, fatuous things when you turn it on. You don't buy an Armani shirt because of the stitching, you buy it because you want to tell people you wear Armani. Ubuntu is not Armani - though its stitching is probably great.
  13. I had a similar problem about a year ago on a non-pw site. It turned out that MySQL had crashed/corrupted on a shared solution and the hosting company had rebuilt it but something had gone wrong and not all the tables were complete. Took me two weeks to get them to admit that the problem had been their end. (Which is slow for me .....)
  14. Cant quite think how to do this, but since this is based on a count, if you check to see whether your count is above or equal to the value when pagination kicks in, then if it is, display the pagination. What I am not sure about is what happens on page two....
  15. I am enjoying House of Cards - As good as the original series, and that takes some doing.
  16. Joss

    Wiki

    One of the main reasons for creating a Wiki from scratch is because what is needed really isn't quite a wiki at all. In its trues sense a WikiWikiWeb (the first one) is a collaborative anarchic information repository that uses a common markup system and has no editorial structure. That is great if you want to create a Wikipedia clone (and have all the headaches that go along with it), but not necessarily much use if what you want is a formal document (articles are documents) repository with submission, editorial and publishing protocols. If you want the first, use Wikimedia or one of the thousand and one similar versions out there. If you want something more structured, then designing one from scratch could be very interesting. I am sure you will get lots of advice when you need it!
  17. Joss

    Lister

    Send me a rough script and the original .....
  18. You really need one of the more Ajax knowledgeable people round here to make this work properly. I am not sure how it could count as an extra pageview, or whether it does on Pinterest - that side of it might not be an issue for them and from the SEO point of view, it is not how many times a page is viewed, but rather whether the page is linked to from other sites. The link that you click will, from the search engine's point of view, be just an ordinary link - it is the JQuery that will then use that link to create the modal and so on. If you are looking for stats on what is clicked (which is different from whether it is good SEO or not), then you could create a field for your template that is for hits, and then have it add one each time you click on the link. This is an old post from Ryan http://processwire.com/talk/topic/245-automatic-visit-count-5k-visits-a-day/?p=1661
  19. Yes, they look the same for me too.
  20. Joss

    New Logo

    Something you wish to tell us?
  21. Just a small point, unless you are absolutely wedded to the idea of having a number as a title (which does not seem very SEO friendly to me), don't forget that each page also has an ID number. Now, although they may not be sequential, (if you have created another page in another section of site) they will be in numerical order.
  22. Saw this on stackoverflow, not sure it helps: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5080495/mode-rewrite-with-without-trailing-slash-on-end-of-url
  23. There was, but it had to be admitted to a warm, happy and noticeably secure place for rehabilitation.
  24. That is odd. I normally delete cache by clicking on a delete cache button. Must try the face slapping technique - though I might need a volunteer (wouldn't want to use my OWN face!)
  25. The default "Home" page (and Home in my list above) IS root. It is your landing page, so put whatever content into that page/template that you want people to see when they first land. You dont need to put /home/ on your URL to get to it - it is accessed with "/" No one turns it off or removes it, just changes it to do what they want it to - after all, every website has to have a landing page. Then just develop the rest of the site from there. As I said, the way the menus work normally is that home (the site root) is shown as the same level of its immediate children. You don't have to stick to that, of course, but it is the easiest way of doing it.
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