Du Vien Trang is a Freelance Web Designer / Developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. This is his portfolio, blog and his digital playground.

This is a new minor release - 1pixelout player version 1.5.2

It is only for Joomla 1.5.x (may work with J!1.0.x legacy mode activated though not tested)  read more »

Following on from my previous post, you can now download this free template for Drupal 5 and 6. It has been commited to CVS at the Drupal official site.

The template is called 'Austere' and the download link is: http://drupal.org/project/austere

Austere template is Strict xHTML and is 100% CSS driven. What's more, it also includes the use of the colour module so colour of theme can be changed on the fly. I used Pixture as the starting point to build this template.

• Integration with color module, so that colors can be changed with a color wheel on the fly
• adjustable 2/3 fixed-width layout
• W3C Valid, and tested on Firefox, IE 6/7, Opera, Safari
• Support for logo, primary links, mission, search box, shortcut icon and user pictures

NOTE: Please use the bug tracker at Drupal if you find any issues with the template.

An article on 'how to customise Austere theme' will follow shortly.

UPDATE (1 Sep 2008):
Please download from http://drupal.org/project/austere

You will find more update to date versions. Thanks.

Good news! i've checked Virtuemart 1.0.15 with the modified files to allow loading mambots (plugins) into Virtuemart contents area and there hasn't been any changes to the files that have been modified for this purpose. So you can use the previous versions for VM 1.0.15.

To simplify it, i've packaged a new one for VM 1.0.15 which is essentially the same as the previous version.

So what does this do? it allows you to load modules or mambots into your VM content area which was not possible. So if you have tabs you want to display using another mambot or video, or music player to embed into VM content area, this modified files for VM should do the trick.

Download file, see attachment below.

Installation

Unzip the file and overwrite your older files. Please backup before you try.

Out of a request from a user to allow 1pixelout player to be rendered in Virtuemart product description, I have created a hack. This was only way to load mambots into VM. The great thing about this hack is that it not only allow you to load 1pixelout into description but also any other mambots you have installed.

This hack was created for use with Joomla! 1.0.x & Virtuemart 1.0.12 & 1.0.13a only.

Credits to Greg Perkins.

Installation:

• Backup your files
• Unzip the file and replace your old files in /administrator/components/com_virtuemart/html/

UPDATE as of 31 Jan 2008

Added Load Mambot for Virtuemart 1.0.14 (For Joomla 1.0.x)