After waiting for all needed extensions are available on Joomla! 1.5 for several months. it's already version 1.5.8. lol. Then I took few days to imigrate all the contents to new site, including re-arrange all the content's section and catagories. I still love Joomart template, with JA Sanidine II, it's really nice to customized, together with JA Bulletin, makes it look like professional web... hahaha... except the content has no meaning.... lol
This version contains all included extensions from JA sanidine, plus JCE Content Editor, Simple Image Gallery, BC Imagelink, Jom Comment etc.
Extension Modification
Simple Image Gallery
As this site is on my server at home, why not I just create and store Thumbnails on my HDD. The idea of SIG is very nice. If you have the problem about permission on your server for some reason and you cannot change the permission. Then SIG will generate thumbnails on time to show but not store. Then there will be the performance issue if there are too many images in one page. This modification included support for transparent png and show thumbnails as a background-image in div tag for better SEO. Another customization that I did long time already is Square Thumbnails.
JA Bulletin
This is one of my most favorite extension, more simple, and flexibility than JA news. But have to work harder. I modified to support transparent png thumnails, otherwise, it will show black background on transparent area. and minor changes on css fro better layout if the article title is too long.
Missing Extensions
Unfortunately, it seems like there is no longer gallery2 integration. But I don't mind... lol. Just visit gallery.ibualoy.net instead.
Joomla Core Modification
Image Manager
Personally I do not like to change any core code. But why the Image Manager for put images into content is very small!!! Then I just increase the size of windows for better view.
Extension Conflicts
Simple Image Gallery
There is a conflict of SIG mootools. I can survive on Firefox, but there are a lot of error message and pop up on IE6 - IE7. The problem still exists and the resolution is to purchase SIG Pro from JoomlaWorks. There are 3 methods to render pop-up image gallery. If one of methods failed or has conflict with another extensions, we can use another method instead to avoid conflict. Hehehe... but after married has no money yet. May be next month. lol
Extensions Road Map
There are few more extensions I like to test soon. JoomSuite Resources and their packages, Remository, Google Map Plugin, etc.
