Randy Carey
Randy is the web architect at Careytech Studios. In 2013 he is driving the iCue Project (improving the CMS user experience) with the goal of developing best practices and Joomla extensions that will improve the CMS user experience from the client’s perspective.
Website URL: http://iCueProject.com
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Friday, 01 March 2013 00:00
Adding Access Control through Overrides
What if the component you want to use does not implement the ACL features you need to have? One approach is to add access control through Joomla's output overrides.
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2013 March
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Saturday, 01 September 2012 00:00
Implementing Role-Based ACL
A role represents the permissions and access needed to do a task. Once roles have been set-up, one can intuitively assign, aggregate, transfer, and share these roles among CMS users. Here is a straight-forward approach to implementing roles in Joomla.
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2012 September
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Wednesday, 01 August 2012 00:00
A Case for Role-Based ACL
If your client has more than one person maintaining the site, you should consider providing role-based ACL. What is "role-based" ACL and why should you use it instead of the 1.5 approach of ACL?
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2012 August
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Sunday, 01 April 2012 00:00
Customizing the Admin Menu
Give your clients a backend menu that is tailored for them. Here’s how.
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2012 April
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Wednesday, 01 February 2012 00:00
Customizing an Extension's Edit Screen
Clients grumble too often about a hard-to-use CMS. The problem, often, is delivering to clients edit screens that are unchanged from how they come out-of-the-box. We can do better. In this example we’ll be tailoring a complex edit screen into something streamlined for a particular client. The technique shown here can be applied to any extension and for any client with specific needs.
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2012 February
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