Nate Covington

Choosing a font is vital to your site's performance.  If you choose a common font like Arial or Trebuchet (see list below), your site will load more quickly because there is less scripting involved:

• This is Arial Font
• This is Courier New Font
• This is Georgia Font
• This is Tahoma Font
• This is Times New Roman Font
• This is Trebuchet Font
• This is Verdana Font

There are also options for loading a custom font on your site. You don't want to embed your text in images, because the search engines cannot read it. The alternative is to use a little bit of javascript, we can inject the custom font onto your site dynamically.

Google Fonts

If you are using Google Fonts for your site, be sure to include the "display: swap" command in your CSS!

Don't Make Me Think - by Steve Krug
A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

We've heard from multiple clients who have received letters in the mail from Domain Registry of America (DROA).  Read carefully - this is a solicitation.  They are trying to trick domain owners into transferring their registrations to DROA.  If you are happy with your current registrar (we suggest GoDaddy), you don't have to do anything!

"Covington Creations worked diligently to build us a user friendly, state of the art website.  Our website is now very professional and pleasing to the eye.  Nate, the developer assigned to our account,  was very responsive in both emails as well as over the phone.  He provided a quick turnaround… as soon as we provided the content, it was up on the site.  He has also been helpful in suggesting new ideas and working to continuously improve our web presence."

I wish someone had written an article like this when I first started with Joomla.  It would have saved me a *LOT* of time.  The first thing that Joomla does, whenever it loads, is to check and see if an ItemID exists for a given page.  Normally, a Joomla link will include an "&ItemID=" statement, but not always.  If it doesn't, then Joomla will look for a match in the database.

An ItemID in Joomla effects all of the following:

- Component
- Modules
- Template
- Access Control (ACL)
- sef URL

...we will explain each in detail below.

1.  Enhanced visibility for your members and yourself.

Build your own online community and news portal.  Let your members advertise on the site.  Manage all of your members’ directory listings, contact information, and site content through a web-based control panel.  Visitors will be able to search your directory by zip code or keyword. Some of the latest third-party extensions for Joomla, like the K2 Framework, make managing content a breeze!  [Video]

2.  Online payment processing for membership dues, donations, and events.

Automatically send email reminders to past-due members for payment.  Offer online payments through PayPal, Authorize.net, 2Checkout, or other supported platforms.  Do your members pay with cash or check?  No problem, offline payments are supported as well.  Your members’ information is stored in a database, so we can connect Joomla with third-party platforms.

1.  Design Options:

• Provide the Photoshop / Illustrator file and we can build a custom template from scratch.
• Choose a professionally crafted stock template and we’ll customize it to suit your needs.

2.  White Label Support

If you want, set up an email address for us to use with your clients (e.g. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

3.  No monthly recurring fees

We only charge for actual time spent updating and customizing your site.

Welcome to the C2 Support information page.  We are making a few changes to the handling of email and support requests:

How does it work?

• You can now submit a support ticket by sending an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Our support ticket system now offers the ability to "cc" people on each support ticket; to use this, either cc: these people in your email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or use the "cc" field on the Submit Ticket page.
• If you are the owner (original sender) of a support ticket, you are able to log in and add/remove people from your ticket's "cc" at any time.
• If you are a "cc" on a ticket, you can log in and view the ticket at any time.
• The system will check for new "cc'd" users each time a ticket is replied to via email.

This is a follow-up to a previous post which demonstrates how to connect RSForm Pro to PayPal using a custom amount field.  This takes it one step further, and connects the custom amount field to a recurring payment plan (e.g. monthly subscription).

Problem: PHP warning messages when visiting the 404 error page in sh404sef

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /components/com_content/helpers/route.php on line 106
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /components/com_content/helpers/route.php on line 106
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /components/com_content/helpers/route.php on line 106

Bad karma : we can't find that page !

You asked for http://www.yoursite.com/page_name/, but despite our computers looking very hard, we could not find it. What happened ?