From the director's office

I mostly blog about the Joomla! Content Management System, business networking, and other geeky subjects which I think are interesting.

Ruth Cheesley

Ruth Cheesley

I am the owner and Director of Virya Technologies, with the responsibility for leading the website design team.
I am primarily involved with the day to day management of our website projects, ongoing support contracts and liaising with our clients from across the world.

K2 attachments give 404 error on downloading with 2.5.x

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Ruth Cheesley
I am the owner and Director of Virya Technologies, with the responsibility for l
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on Monday, 09 January 2012
in Joomla! Content Management System

We had a client report that their attachments on K2 articles would not download - giving an error message in the source code initially, and then subsequently a 404 error. On investigating we identified that the latest version of K2 handles attachments slightly differently.

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Are you offering your customers special offers through Google Places pages?

Posted by Ruth Cheesley
Ruth Cheesley
I am the owner and Director of Virya Technologies, with the responsibility for l
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on Tuesday, 29 November 2011
in General business

You may be excused for not noticing the latest additions to Google Places - I don't often visit my Places page but each time I do recently I've noticed additional features popping in without much song and dance!

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How do I get a Google+ Page for Business?

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Ruth Cheesley
I am the owner and Director of Virya Technologies, with the responsibility for l
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on Monday, 07 November 2011
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Are you making the most of Google Places and location-based adwords since Google Adwords Express launched?

Posted by Ruth Cheesley
Ruth Cheesley
I am the owner and Director of Virya Technologies, with the responsibility for l
User is currently offline
on Tuesday, 18 October 2011
in General business

Today I came across something interesting when I was checking out how our Google Places entry was performing (Google Places, for those who aren't aware, is how companies appear in Google Maps and can be accessed at google.co.uk/places) and noticed a new feature - Adwords Express - had appeared on my toolbar.

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Having problems installing Joomla! 1.7 with _menu table MySQL errno:139 errors?

Posted by Ruth Cheesley
Ruth Cheesley
I am the owner and Director of Virya Technologies, with the responsibility for l
User is currently offline
on Monday, 17 October 2011
in Joomla! Content Management System

We came across a problem getting a Joomla! 1.7.1 vanilla install to work on a Windows server at one of our clients - during the installation process it was not able to create the _menu table - everything else seemed to work OK!

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