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By: Michael Cannon

The International TYPO3 Conference T3CON09 offers you the opportunity to meet the worlds best TYPO3 specialists and learn about new and innovative ideas around TYPO3.

Family First, Prostate Cancer and the Joys of a Supportive Company

By: Virgil Huston

I am not a doctor nor do I play one on TV, but I am married to a nurse and know the importance for men of getting Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) tests done once you hit 40-50 years of age or have a family history of prostrate cancer.According to the Prostrate Health Improvement Program, suggested upper limits of PSA for various age groups are:

Age (years)Serum PSA (ng/ml)40 - 492.050 - 593.060 - 694.070 - 795.5

The point of all this is twofold, one to express my appreciation for working for a company that cares about its employees. The other point is to encourage all men to make sure you...

Easily link to news articles with the TYPO3 RTE

By: Michael Cannon

By not cross-linking pages or content on your website, you'll suffer on informing clients and with SEO. The TYPO3 linkhandler extension greatly speeds up inserting article links through the TYPO3 RTE point-and-click link browser.

Keeping up with TYPO3

By: Virgil Huston

Like all things in the Information Age, keeping up with TYPO3 is a double edged sword. There is tons of information available, but the problem is keeping up with all. This is a good problem to have, so I am not complaining, but I am struggling to find a solution on:How best to make sure you find all the relevant informationThis is perhaps the easiest part, especially now that Twitter has arrived on the scene. Twitter allows one to find new sources of information, articles, blogs, new and updated extensions, as well as helping with meeting new people. You can set up groups of people you...

Last Chance to Contribute to TYPO3 Training Paper for T3CON09

By: Virgil Huston

Myself and co-author Michael Cannon (Acqal's CEO) had our paper submission accepted as a talk for T3CON09 in Frankfurt. This is very exciting and will require our best effort to meet, and hopefully exceed, the usual high quality presentations that one always finds at any T3CON. It is also quite an honor. As you probably already know, I have been running a TYPO3 Training Methods Effectiveness survey for the past couple of months. If you are an Acqal blog reader, Facebook friend, or follow me on Twitter, you may even have become sick of all the reminders :-) The results of the survey will form...

Custom Simple Map Icons for wec_map

By: Michael Cannon

In early June, Andrea of Stonebriar Church, wrote into our help desk at support@acqal.com with a little question, "How do I change the Google map icons for our wec_map pages?" This particular request was a little new to us, mainly to me as I hadn't even considered the possibility before. However, it seems you can.

What follows is how the answer to wec_map custom icons was found.

What's wec_map?

Per the wec_map TYPO3 extension manual, the Web-Empowered Church Map Extension provides an interface for placing maps from Google on a TYPO3-based website. First, a Simple Map Plugin...

Acqal Tech Tuesday Really Helps TYPO3

By: Michael Cannon

I'm proud to say that I've been working with the TYPO3 CMS since March of 2003. During that time many web content management projects that initially took 6 months have progressed to completion frequently within a month. This reduction in time has come from many sides through the paid and volunteer efforts of a great number of contributers. With Acqal being an official TYPO3 agency, the summary knowledge of these resources is extensive and something that's sometimes frighteningly easily available at my fingertips.

With a quick email, instant message, phone call or tweet, we're able to get...