If you create a new page in WordPress and you would like this page to have a custom template you’ll have to follow these steps.
If the Page Template’s drop down box doesn’t show up in the Admin Panel you just have to re-activate the template in the appearance menu.
In your website design if you want to use other fonts than the basic Verdana, Courier, Times,etc. sIFR can be of great help. sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) enables you to display fonts that are not in the user’s machine. sIFR is a mix of Flash, Javascript and CSS that enables you to display whatever font you need for more aestethic designs.
For example, in this wordpress blog the custom font typography used for date&time of each blog post is rendered with the help of sIFR.
Check Mike Davidson’s page for more info.
And for easy set up: sIFR Generator
When it comes to upgrading a site to a new version of Joomla the process is different if you’re on a Mac or a PC. If you don’t know how MacOSx handles folder overwriting you can suffer from severe headaches!
Important:
On a Mac if you overwrite a folder it will replace it entirely leaving no trace of the old files.
On a PC if you overwrite a folder it will only overwrite files that have been modified and leave everything else untouched.
(see entire discussion here)
There are some solutions out there like “FileMerge” which allow you to compare folders on Mac and overwrites only the ones you need.
I personally prefer to do it on XP through VirtualBox as I’ve already set this up for crossbrowser testing.
Hope this helps…