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A question was posted in the Joomla! New England  forum about getting rid of the titles from the read more links generated by the Beez template overrides.  Here is how I responded:

The Beez template was designed for accessibility.

It is an accessibility No-No  to have multiple links on the same page with the same text that point to different urls -- so...
the Beez template overrides  pull in the article title, creating unique links to the various articles.

This topic came up at Joomla! Day New England -- how to get template styles to show up in jce styles dropdown and to affect the content in the editor window.

For some time now I have been installing the JCE editor for my clients to use on their Joomla sites.   And each time I have to make a decision about how to configure the editor, because this can be done in different ways and "It Depends..."  is always the right answer.

Here are a few possible issues:

Set up additional domains as "parked" domains.  Then,  open the .htaccess file for the primary domain and add these lines immediately after the   RewriteEngine On  line.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?BADDOMAIN.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://GOODDOMAIN.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Change the BADDOMAIN AND GOODDOMAIN as appropriate.

At the CMS Expo I shared a site I had developed for the University of Massachusetts:  New England Greenhouse Up-dates  http://negreenhouseupdate.info.  I've gotten several emails from Expo attendees asking about the extensions used, so here's that info.

Note:  I had to edit this blog entry in order to save it --  all references to up-dates would normallly not have the hyphen, but my host has great security and will not allow certain database terms to be used in an article or blog.   I will need to ask them to make an exception for this site and will edit the blog post once that is done.

The site features a blog of “up-dates” about all the things that can go wrong in greenhouses – and best practices to avoid them.  Some articles are just text, while a photo library provides a visual database organized in categories.  When we began the conversion to Joomla! we considered various photo gallery extensions, but ended up using regular Jooma! articles and two separate category blog displays.

Yemuzip was recommended at CMSExpo for zipping Joomla templates, modules, extensions, etc.  because it doesn't include some Mac junk that the Finder's Compress command does.  I haven't had trouble with normal Mac zip files as long as I didn't have any files with **s or other special characters in the file or folder names.

I downloaded this and tried it.  It's very easy to use and offers PC or Mac compatibility.

http://yellowmug.com/yemuzip/

Fix posted by Matt on ignite's support forum:

Edit components/com_igallery/views/igcategory/view.html.php change line 189:

Code:  

$document->setDescription( substr( JFilterOutput::cleanText($category->gallery_description), 0, 200 )  );


so it is now these 2 lines:

Code: 

$description = $category->gallery_description;
$document->setDescription( substr( JFilterOutput::cleanText($description), 0, 200 )  );

A client wanted sub categories with the same names for each of her regional photo galleries.  With Joomla SEF turned on,  she got only the images of the first regions' sub-categories.  The urls displayed were correct, but the images were from the wrong category and the breadcrumb matched the images -- not the url.

I needed to create a print-only header  that would include the full url of the current page, so that we could be sure that users would print the full url of the page (and not depend on browser settings)

You can't have one without the other --

To have the name and description of the blog appear, you must turn on the toolbar.

(Or write a template override!)

At first when I configured Mighty Resources for the Weed Herbarium project we were getting a listing of titles "on this page"  ahead of the ABC links and the table of links to the individual weeds.

The parameter I needed to disable was: Section: Properties: Elements:  Title Index.

Now I'm just going to go into Language file and try to change Title to scientific name.