Tweet Security is a major issue and not just for Joomla sites. Every other day I hear about another large site that was hacked, and it always makes me wonder: if big companies that can afford to hire the best talent and use the best servers still get hacked, what hope is there for small [...]

Tweet You might have heard talk recently about “Responsive Design” or “Responsive Web Design” (RWD). If you’re a designer, or do any kind of Web design, you’ll certainly have heard about it. In this article I’m going to explain what Responsive Web Design is, how it relates to Joomla and what you should know if [...]

Tweet A couple of months ago, I’ve told you about my adventures at CMS Expo and that one of the highlights of the expo was meeting the devs of WeeverApps, since then I’ve been in constant contact with them regarding different WeeverApps features and how we can work together. I thought it would be fun [...]

Tweet OSTraining is a successful online and off-line training company for Joomla and other open source CMS environments. OSTraining recently switched to Guru on our new, award-winning Joomla LMS and I thought it was time I have a little chat with founder Steve Burge about their highly successful transition. 1. Tell us a bit about [...]

Tweet Dumping your Joomla files in the root of your public_html directory is so confusing. It creates a big mess of files. There has to be some way to sort things into folders to make it neater. Let me show you how.

Tweet Every once in a while there will come a time in your Joomla career that will necessitate the need to have two or more Joomla sites for one project. You don’t want to force your users to sign up for two sites–it’s annoying. You want them to sign up once, and be able to [...]

Tweet I can’t be any more clear or succinct about this. If you don’t have a backup plan for your Joomla site, you will eventually have an unrecoverable problem. It’s not your webhosts responsibility, it’s yours and yours alone. You will get hacked I hate to be all gloom and doom here, but it’s only [...]

Tweet Just like a carpenter or a dentist, you need the proper tools to do your work. As a website admin/creator you will need a dedicated browser for daily work. One that has a variety of tools to allow you to get your job done.

Tweet If you ’ve been trying to migrate your site from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 1.7 or Joomla 2.5, you know how difficult it can be. Tools like JUpgrade have made our life a lot easier but even JUpgrade only migrates the articles and menu items. The meta tags you ’ve created with iJoomla SEO? [...]

Tweet There is more to running a Joomla site then picking out a template, installing a few plugins and releasing it to the world. Is your code neat and legible? Is your site prepped for SEO? Are you loading javascript libraries more than once? In your site executing unnecessary code? Chances are high that there [...]