The Joomla Project announced on December 22 the newest Beta version for our favorite CMS, Joomla 2.5.  This will be the second release since converting over to their new six month release cycle.  In this article I will outline what you can expect from this new version, how to upgrade to it, and why this [...]

We get lots of suggestions from our customers for features and Joomla enhancements that they’d like to see. We try to act on those suggestions whenever possible. We’ve now acted on the request that we see most often. We’ve integrated  JomSocial with Ad Agency! This revolutionary version of Ad Agency will help you take your [...]

Ever since the first days of iJoomla, right back when we came out with iJoomla Magazine, people have been asking me if we had a solution to enable paid subscriptions. We didn’t. I’d always hoped that someone else would come up with something and while a few extensions were created over the years to provide [...]

Knowing where your module positions are located is one of the most fundamental things you need to know when creating a site with Joomla 1.7, however, for some reason it’s not as easy to find as you would think. It was evident in the Joomla 1.7 usability testing I performed a few weeks ago. The [...]

If you use Joomla you are no doubt confused about the direction that the Joomla versions are taking.  I admit, I work with Joomla daily and it has been confusing for even me to follow.  If you Google “Joomla roadmap” the first result is from 2007, and the rest of the results are just as topical. You [...]

The Joomla team  recently announced Joomla 1.7 is now stable for live sites.  This new version fixes a variety of issues with Joomla 1.6 as well as introduces the ability to upgrade to future versions from within the Administrator panel. No more uploading via FTP, hooray! This marks the first step towards a upgrade system that is [...]

Giles Fabris of DiehardCustomers.com is a good friend, a business coach and a customer service guru. He’s also a new Joomla 1.5 user who has been working with the CMS for the past three months. He is a typical Joomla end-user: a business owner, not a developer. I had just one task for him: to [...]

Why should I speed up Joomla? Google recently announced that it uses your Joomla loading speed as a deciding factor on where your page ranks in the SERPS, (search engine results). Site speed has generally been more of an after thought to most people, but now it needs to be front and center in your [...]

Any site that sells products or services needs a testimonial page. Those personal accounts and recommendations give your site credibility and increase your ROI. The best testimonials you can post are video testimonials. If you host events or meet clients, take a video recorder with you, even if it’s just your iPhone or a Flip [...]

You know how it goes. You create a fantastic Joomla website with great architecture, awesome usability, clean code and optimized images, and when you’re done, you hand it proudly to your client with (hopefully) some explanation of how to use the site’s backend. I usually create a video tutorial that explains how to perform the [...]