We've made this cool little step-by-step break down of how to add a product to your VirtueMart site to help you get your site up and running that much quicker. You can follow the steps one by one or if you click on the images in the left column you can follow them visually in a slide show. Just hover your mouse of the right side of the enlarged image to move to the next step or to the left to go back a step. We hope that this is very helpful and makes getting your site up just that much easier.

My first blog entry for Creative Kinetic and I'm feeling the pressure.  Do I try and stay topical and talk about joomla and phb software?  No they'll know I'm faking it.  Should I rap about customer service and that I'm a compulsive phone checker/take it everywhere I go person?  No, this isn't about me; c'mon Jake your losing them.  Alright fine, I'm going into the wilderness to look for inspiration.  I hope you enjoy!

It has become painfully clear to me that Creative Kinetic could use a little sprucing up, and so I'm happy to announce that there is a new Sheriff in town. Jake Philpot is joining the team as a lead director. He'll be the one that keeps Creative Kinetic on the right course through the day to day struggle.

Here's a cool write up on how to make a Joomla Template GreenSprout style. It's fairly simple and straight forward and hopefully you will find it informational and easy to comprehend. Enjoy!

So I was just working on Another Halo Victory and I came across a peculiar setback. I couldn't start Dreamweaver. The splash page would appear for thirty seconds or so and then the whole program would shut down and disappear without any notice. No error screens, no sign whatsoever as to what was going on. Frustrated, I turned off my computer and watched a little Back to the Future II. Deciding I actually wanted to get some work done so late at night I jumped back in the saddle and tried to figure out exactly what was going on.

After a little Googling, I was able to find a few accounts from others that mentioned the same problem. After reading a few posts in forums I decided to try and see what was happening as Dreamweaver disappeared and I was able to discern that it had gotten as far as the 'Loading Site Cache ..' before it called it quits.

Turns out that there is a peculiar bug in Dreamweaver that causes some sort of fatal error when any file of the exact size of 8,192 bytes. One byte more or less and there is no problem. So I decided to go see if the CSS file I had open recently and had been working on was that particular size. It wasn't. So, it was a no go. Then it struck me, the file size was 32,768-- a multiple of 8,192 and 4. What are the odds? After typing in 32,763 bytes worth of info, the last 5 I added were just enough to ruin Dreamweaver.

I'm just amazed at the odds. I mean, 8,192 seems like a very particular number and really, an improbable one to save a file as, much less 32,768.

So now you all know that this bug exists and does exist in multiples. Good luck with it and I hope it doesn't cause anyone too much stress.

So we we're trying to build a poll on one of our websites and we ended up finding this great module developed by Gospodin Bodurov which is a great alternative as it is to the poll module that comes with Joomla. Basically, this cool module allows you to display the poll results on the same page as the module.

What did we do to modify it? Well, we added a html/css bar graph to go along with this module so you can easily turn your poll results into a great looking graph. It includes a few parameters to change the colors and text of the bars and you can easily change any of the other attributes to the graph through css modifications.

Here's the download right here and we hope you enjoy it. You can see a demo of it in action to the left here.

Download Modified Cool Poll Module Joomla 1.5