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It’s often assumed that standards are for big business and are not really useful to smaller organizations. In fact it can be easily argued that the opposite is the case.

Standards are especially important to small businesses because they put you on a level playing field with larger organizations. The national and international standards are a route whereby everyone can access well-worked out, peer-reviewed best practice. Many standards spread current technology and best practice widely, which helps open market entry to smaller businesses.

Increasingly SMEs are adopting standards and benefiting from streamlined processes, refined products, extended markets and differentiation from the competition. As markets shrink these factors are becoming more important than ever. Competitiveness is becoming more important than ever and standards are a proven route to increased competitiveness and a stronger business.

* Using standards to reduce operating costs
* Standards for better products
* Standards for better customers
* Standards for a better brand
* Extend your markets
* Reduce your risk

How can you start to take advantage of using standards?

Download Small business guide to making standards work and read Small business case studies and then become a BSI Member.

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From now on the company produces CMS templates for Joomla! and Mambo platforms.

TemplateMonster.com, a templates provider, offers new CMS templates designed for Joomla! and Mambo systems. The company holds that offering the new CMS templates is a step long anticipated by its customers.

The company states that both of these CMS packages contain many different parts, plugins and components that are integrated especially for better functionality and customization of use. The company avers that the two are basically variations of a similar product that were developed as a result of the project’s managers’ differences of emphases.

“We’ve been planning the Mambo and Joomla! templates release for a long time and today we have realized that goal. We place very big hopes on these new product lines,” says David Braun, CEO of TemplateMonster. “Because these products are very similar, and both have high functionality as well as great popularity, we decided to launch them on the same day. The internet activity of today is trending toward people who neither have nor want programming skills or coding work. Using CMS systems today is desirable and considered by many to be a standard requirement.”

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Since reading Nick’s entry on Loading Javascript Libraries in Wordpress Plugins, I have decided to use the same techniques to get my custom Theme to load JavaScript using wp_enqueue_script().

There is two reasons why I wanted to load my custom JavaScript libraries:

1. Default jQuery library included with the latest version of WordPress is not up-to-date
2. My custom code does not work with the default version included with this release WordPress

As this is a custom theme I have a functions.php where I have defined all my custom functions. So to load the custom JavaScript.

< ? php
function my_add_js_libs() {
//Add the jquery framework to the header
//wp_enqueue_script('jquery'); // default jquery is not up-to-date
//wp_enqueue_script( $handle, $src = false, $deps = array(), $ver = false );
wp_enqueue_script('my_jquery', $src = '/wp-content/themes/[mythemename]/js/jquery-1.2.1.pack.js’, $deps = array(), $ver = ‘1.2.1′ );
wp_enqueue_script(’my_core_js’, $src = ‘/wp-content/themes/[mythemename]/js/core.js’, $deps = array(’my_jquery’));
}
? >


then make a call to the function in the header.php just before the wp_head();

< ? php
my_add_js_libs();
wp_head();
? >


This should now load the custom JavaScript Libraries required for your themes in the sequence that WordPress decides.

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