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Today there are more than 100 post in xoopsfactory’s blog. Since I started this blog in October last year, there were more than 80.000 visitors with more than 250.000 pageviews. Never ever thought to have that much visitors, and it’s fun to gather content for the page. It seems to be a small diary from parts of my work with xoops and stuff.

The more fun it is while seeing XOOPS moving forwards. Actually I’m having fun with the new 2.0.14RC. The feature (the ability) of overwriting modultemplates seems to be a good thing for themedesigner.

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This is a screen i made for a relaunch of my studiocreativ.de which might be an example for a small business site using XOOPS. It’s a more personal layout showing a basic body of a person. The logo is still missing, actually I’m working on a pixel logo with a body nearly shown with the layout.

There will be some information about the people behind studioC and some examples of work, forms to contact or to order more detailed information and perhaps a news section. The page isn’t online actually, I will sure inform you when it’s done.

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Another period of voting is over and we have another winner of our “Site of the month” contest. The winner of XOOPS Site of the month contest for month April is … Styling & Design - Noord.

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Would YOU like to show YOUR personal design of XOOPS Banner?

I’m playing with some images and graphic stuff to get some personalized XOOPS banner. This is actually just a test to play with bannerdesign, not more. Send me your banner, or even better, upload it somewhere and send me a link to your banner and some information about the banner (when there is some).

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Another nightly screendesign I made for a possible new hokamp.info. Things there should be rearranged for some time now, but I did not find the look and feel until now.

More family stuff and content should be placed there instead of my themes, layouts and things. My personal themes and layouts will sure find a place on this site, but in future most design and layout content will be found here on xoopsfactory.com or on my private static playground openwebdesign.de!

Actually it is only a static [x]HTML file with dummy content but have a look at it. Making static files first, before porting to xoops, is a very nice way to play with themes and layouts.

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Finally, xf_openWeb is ready for download. It has been online on xoopsfactory’s demo site for some weeks now but finally managed to pack it for free download.

Actually it is a flexible width theme, so take care of what you display in centercolumn. Look into modultemplates and look for clearings which should not be there and for tables width=”100%”. This may force the content to be displayed after the content of left block.

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I’m actually moving xoopsfactory to a new home. This should be without (too m)any problems but if there are any, please excuse them. The normal procedure to move a xoops cms to another server is a set of the following steps …

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Do you know the situation you need to add a page with static content to xoops, using XOOPS layout? Content, that will never ever change (… at least not every day), where you do not need the ability to edit content via administration and database?

You will edit files with an editor and upload with ftp? Company or products information? Existing html-pages you want to place within your domain using the same layout your XOOPS CMS does? You want to have nice URLs? Here is the easiest way, at least for me …

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Picasa is a software to organize your pictures on your local Windows PC. Picasa is a free software download from Google. It “… is a software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. ..” Picasa is available in the following languages: Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, English (US and UK), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

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Do you use AccessKeys on your site? What kind of Keys do you use? There are Pros and Cons to use accesskeys. What about those people who are not able to hit 2 keys at the same time? Do you think a about disabled people accessing your website? Actually I’m working on a Box with Access Keys, which sets the keys but can be used with mouse too.

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