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US Political Campaign Websites - The Basics

By: Virgil Huston

We do a number of political campaign sites every election cycle and have been doing so for years, from Congressional down to local races in a variety of states. I've learned a thing or two about effective campaign sites over the years.There are a few characteristics that distinguish a campaign web site from most other sites:

They are always temporary, the longest time a campaign site is live is usually less than a year and that only if the site gets set up early and the candidate makes it past the primary. Even if the candidate is using his usual web site (assuming he has one), campaign...

My Talk at T3CON10 Dallas - TYPO3 User jobs and Tasks

By: Virgil Huston

Typo3 user jobs and tasks

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Dallas Barbeque Joint Reviews

By: Virgil Huston

I posted this on my personal blog, Cooking with Little Buddy, but figured it was relevant here :-)

I was in Dallas this week for  the T3CON10 Dallas TYPO3 conference. As am a barbeque fanatic, I was eager to sample Texas fare. I know that Texas barbeque is not the same as in South Carolina, so was looking forward to brisket in particular. We went to two barbeque places. The night I got in, I met up with our Chief Technical Officer and his wife. I am from South Carolina, the CTO is from the Netherlands, and Karina, his wife, is from Ecuador. We are all foodies.

We had no clue...

T3CON10 Dallas

By: Virgil Huston

I got into Dallas Wednesday late afternoon for T3CON10 Dallas, tried to meet Ries van Twisk (our CTO) and his wife, went from Terminal E to Terminal A and back, no one had heard of the flight number they were on. Finally took a taxi to the hotel and they arrived a few minutes later after trying to find me. I am not sure I've ever seen a city that was so spread out.

Today was tutorial day and an opportunity to meet people. As always, when I attend these events, one of the best things is actually meeting "face-to-face" people I have known for years on the Internet, not to mention...

Acqal is Going Through Some Changes

By: Nicole Johnson

Most of you have now heard that Acqal’s CEO, Michael Cannon, decided to resign his position with Acqal at the end of February. Michael left in order to start a family and to make career changes. We wish him the best of luck. With that said, Virgil Huston and I have been moving forward in beefing up the Acqal team. We’re very excited by the changes and the upcoming growth.

Acqal has added a team of six TYPO3 gurus that will be assisting us with support items as well as projects. We’ve also added a Senior Technical Advisor, Ries van Twisk. Ries will be working with us on those projects that...

Creating a MySQL Database for TYPO3 using CPanel

By: Virgil Huston

Today, I created a development site for a support client's web site. A development (dev) server allows you to try all kinds of things without affecting the live site. Not everything can be done in the draft workspace on a live site, so dev sites are essential.There are a number of ways to copy a site to another server, but as I was going through the process, I thought that some things tend to be taken for granted by writers of instructions. One of these things is actually creating a MySQL database for the new site. This applies to copied sites and completely new sites. Some writers assume you...

Acqal Promotes Biking and Families with World Vision

By: Michael Cannon

Acqal continues to promote helping others and having a little fun with a recent charity contribution to World Vision for 10 bicycle loans. This donation enables families to be loaned the funds to purchase a bicycle and every 6-months another family will be able to do the same. The simple addition of a bicycle to impoverished farm families allows them to move more goods safely and quickly between home and market. This positively influences their health and helps them make their labors more efficient.

From World Vision:

Give a bike loan and help 10 families out of poverty. Your gift of a...

It's Official T3CON10-Dallas Web Site Launched! Join Us!

By: Virgil Huston

As one of the organizers of the conference, there will be more original posts from me on the plans and events for T3CON10-Dallas, but for now, here is the official announcement. I hope to meet as many of you there as possible!We invite you to T3CON10-Dallas, the 2nd annual North American TYPO3 conference on May 20-22nd. This will be a great time to learn more about the powerful system we use everyday and to connect with other developers and TYPO3 users from both North America, Europe and around the world. Several internationally-known leaders of the TYPO3 community will be attending and...

Create a simple "Contact Us" mail form in TYPO3

By: Michael Cannon

Name | *name=inputEmail | *email=input | | EMAILPhone | phone=inputSubject | subject=select | Consulting, Sales, Support, Training, Web HostingRequest | comments=textarea,25,10| formtype_mail=submit| Request Free Consultation| html_enabled=hidden | 0

You can change Name, Email, and Subject of above to display as you'd like on the front-end. Don't change name, email, and subject or else the sent email from name, from email, and subject will not be what the submitter provided. The * before name and email denotes those fields as required. The EMAIL of email, informs...

Configure TYPO3 for Localized Websites

By: Michael Cannon

A bit older of a multi-lingual setup guide, but the principals are the same.