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I just attended a day-long workshop on Responsive Web Design at the User Interface Engineering (UIE.com)  UX Immersion Mobile conference in Seattle.

A comment by the presenter, Jason Grigsby (of  cloudfour.com) caught my attention.    It was his opinion that if you had to choose between optimizing a site for speed in loading and making it responsive, that he'd go for the speed.    A site that might FIT on a small screen, but that still takes too long to load, will lose more viewers than one that loads quickly, even if they have to do some pinching and zooming to see the content.

For Joomla! sites a plugin can help with the speed thing:   JCH Optimize.  Here's a blog entry about that:  http://bit.ly/11oiaKA.

This turned out to be a mod_security issue because the article in question included the word "update".   

Troubleshooting:   create and save a new article.  Fine.  

Copy and paste html from "guilty" article --  Internal Service Error message.

the code for gradients is not correct!

When I observed that my gradients were going right to left instead of top to bottom, I went in and changed rotation  -90deg to 180deg and things looked fine in Firefox --- but I wasn't REALLY understanding the problem --  Doing that made the gradients misbehave in Safari, which my client was using -- He thought I'd gone batty putting a gradient band on the right side of  some home page widgets.

This morning I found this article:

I tried multiple Contact forms and none of them would display Thank You message or redirect to a Thank You page.   Forms were submitting data just fine as I got all the emails  (sender and admin emails).

So... I began to disable other plugins to see if the conflict would be solved.   Lucky me!   The first plugin I disabled was BigMailChimp  - a signup form plugin and with it gone,  everything was fine.

Beginning to work on an updated ScreenShots manual for a client, and my No Number plugin buttons would only work if I toggled the editor OFF.

Not Acceptable!

I found I had to set the JCE Profile "Editor Parameters" setting for Validate HTML to "No".

A certain page on a website was causing IE8 to switch into "compatibility" mode -- and to display as if it weren't paying attention to any media queries, which it otherwise could handle.

I found a meta tag to add to force it to stay out of compatibility mode -- and then it would just display NOTHING!  View source,  the content was all there,  but just a big white screen!

Other pages with similar elements were displaying OK.   A few pesky validation errors could not be eliminated, but they weren't breaking other pages.

Today I was working on a Joomla 2.5.7 site with a responsive template.   Some image dimensions got saved in an article, so they wouldn't behave responsively.    As I went looking for a setting I remembered seeing  to set "Always include dimensions"  to "NO"  I discovered that this is an option for the standard Image Manager that is not available in the Image Manager Extended.  I uninstalled the JCE pluggin  and all of my editor icons disappeared.  The "toggle editor" link displayed, but wouldn't work.

Off to google and the JCE forums --   some people had success with other browsers -- indeed, Chrome and Safari were fine with JCE.   Someone suggested clearing the browser cache -- I did, but still no go in Firefox.

I uninstalled JCE,  reinstalled 2.2.9.1  and the File Manager but NOT the Image Manager Extended.  Still no go in Firefox.   Finally I  1.  Quit Firefox,  2.   Restarted Firefox,  3.  Cleared the Cache (again) and all was well.

This is a topic I have to look up every time I need to do it and today OSTraining posted a tutorial.  Thanks!

Moving a WP site to a new folder, rewriting urls with Velvet Blues plugin.

Just posting this here to remind myself that when Joomla components are giving you things you don't want, you might be able to solve it with an override of the component's language file.

Recently a colleague Mark Madison was struggling to kill the display of the word Category:  in as site that uses SobiPro.   A language override was a quick and efficient way to deal with this,  vs a full-blown template override.

Thanks to Andy Tarr for pointing this out.

On a site migrated from joomla 1.5 to 2.5.7 the settings for showing titles are not being applied.

This has been a common complaint in th joomla forums and there has been some confusion about the multiple places that this parameter can be set.

What I found is that the way this is stored in the database is different.  The 2.5  install uses JSON formatting for this field and when I open a menu item and save it, it gets put back in the database in the new format and then works as expected.