| Agenda 20 November 2012 |
| Written by Sadiq Datoo | |||||||||||
| Agenda for Joomla London User Group meeting
20 November 2012 at UCL (click for directions)
Hope to see you there.
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CiviCRM Meetup London
2020Media is a hosting provider for CiviCRM and we are supporting the new regular London meetups that are kicking off this month.
London CiviCRM meetup
The event will be held at: Manta Ray Media Ltd., Finsbury Business Centre, Unit 42, 40 Bowling Green Lane, London, EC1R 0NE (map). Which is between 10 and 15 minutes walking distance from Angel, Barican, Farringdon and King’s Cross stations. It’s free, and there will be drinks and nibbles and time to network.
Please register at http://civicrm.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=253 so we have an idea of who is coming along.
Format
We’ll start with a drop in session from 5:30 to 6:30 for people that are new to CiviCRM and have specific questions that they want answered. We’ll run this on a first come first serve basis – so please arrive early if you’d like some help. We’ll then have our CiviCRM meetup from 6.30 to 8.30 with presentations suitable for new and existing users, implementors and developers. There will definitley be something to interest all levels of experience.
What is CiviCRM?
CiviCRM is web-based, open source, internationalized software that allows you to record and manage information about your members, clients, volunteers, activists, donors, staff, and vendors.
Unlike most other CRM software, CiviCRM was designed from the ground up for non-profits, membership and advocacy organizations. Rather than trying to adapt to a commercial sales-force automation model, CiviCRM gives you familiar terms and concepts. CiviCRM is freely downloadable without licensing fees making it an affordable and cost effective solution compared to most proprietary vendor offerings.
See you there?
Representatives from 2020Media will be along at the meetup so if you would like to have a face to face chat, please let us know you’ll be attending and we’ll arrange to meet.
Modifying WordPress Theme
We recently had a customer ask to replace the header text in the WordPress Twentyeleven theme with a logo.
This thread on the WordPress website gives a very good explanation:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/twenty-eleven-theme-modification?replies=5
The only tweak we made was to keep the Site Description text visible.
h2#site-description {
text-indent: -18px;
}
h1#site-title {
text-indent: -99999px;
}
You can see the finished site at www.lifeworld.info
Joomla helps power the Games
This article is taken from the Joomla Community Magazine and can be read in full here.
The Games of the XXX Olympiad are underway in London, United Kingdom. They’re powered by the world’s best athletes, years of training and a lot of muscle. It turns out that a lot of the Olympics are also powered by Joomla! websites (just like the 2020Media website).
National Olympic Committees
Sports Governing Bodies
- Federation Internationale de Natatation – Water Polo, Swimming, Diving
- Union International de Pentathlon Moderne – Modern Pentathalon
- The International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles – Wrestling
Olympic Teams
- British Weight Lifting
- Argentinian Football Association
- USA Wrestling Training
- Spanish Federation of Olympic Wrestling
Paralympics
Other
- Olympic Studies Center at the University of Santiago de Compostela
- International Academy of Olympic Chiropractic Officers
2020Media is a specialist in Joomla Hosting and we welcome migrations of existing sites, new hosting and developers.
EU Cookie Law
The new EU Cookie law is now in effect and applies to websites hosted in the UK. The law requiring websites to gain explicit consent before storing cookies on users computers was passed in May 2011 but the ICO granted firms a year to comply before prosecuting any cases.
What the law means for webmasters
There are a few steps to go through in order to achieve compliance with the law:
- You must audit your cookies and present clear information about them on your privacy policy
- Depending on the kind of cookies you’re using on your site, you must decide on a model for managing user awareness and consent.
- You must make any technical changes to cookie-storing scripts in order to test for consent before a cookie is stored.
In practical terms it means you need to avoid using cookies or deploying third party software that uses them except where it is essential for the purpose making your website work. This is because as soon as explicit consent is required, users may refuse that consent. If you see a particular feature as important, you’ll want to know that it will work all the time, whether or not users have consented to cookies.
Bear in mind that in the UK, the ICO is taking a relaxed approach to analytics. Their guidance is that analytics cookies are fairly unintrusive and that therefore, as long as you inform users about their use, explicit consent is not required.
Use a Plugin to Update your Website
http://civicuk.com/cookie-law/index Cookie Control enables you to comply with UK and EU law on cookies, in a couple of quick and easy steps. Proudly developed in Scotland by CIVIC