I’m posting this Flash problem more for my own future reference, but perhaps someone else will benefit.

Basically I’m generally wary of using the built-in Flash components, for whenever I get one working, I develop some bugs that have me wondering if I should have created something from scratch. My experience with the “ComboBox” component was no different.

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In the interest of sharing information, this is the first in a series of “brain dump” posts regarding web design - specifically for folks who are starting a blog.

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I finally got my first Joomla module working. After getting stuck on the install process, I gave up using the zip file technique. Joomla lets you install from a directory, so I just uploaded my files and using that method, everything installed properly. Go figure.

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This isn’t really a how to, maybe a document of my own confusion. Anyhow, my current project is to add a simple sidebar module to Bottle Cap-O-Rama that displays a current count of all the bottle caps. Sounds like an easy task, however the site runs on Joomla and the ideal way to do this involves several layers of technology.

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Spent most of the day hacking away at clean-up on Webomatica, mostly due to the frustrations of seeing Google not index the site properly. I chalk it up to the fact that I moved a bunch of content from static HTML pages to dynamically driven WordPress ones, and not really understanding the nature of “SEF” (search engine friendly) links.

Spent most of the day hacking away at clean-up on Webomatica, mostly due to the frustrations of seeing Google not index the site properly. I chalk it up to the fact that I moved a bunch of content from static HTML pages to dynamically driven WordPress ones, and not really understanding the nature of “SEF” (search engine friendly) links.

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Starting to muck about with Joomla, an open source CMS that I’m planning to use for my bottle cap collection, which is getting far too large for me to handle in the old, manual way. So far I’ve noticed the basic concept is similar to WordPress as there’s CSS templates wrapping around information stored in a database, and it also uses PHP. But Joomla seems to have much more robust admin tools, modules, and graphic support to make all the parts of a web page look prettier.

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