http://www.ijoomla.com/blog iJoomla Blog Wed, 16 May 2012 16:20:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Guru wins “Best Joomla LMS” at CMS Expo! So the CMS Expo got off to a pretty good start. The CMS Awards, in which developers were recognized for outstanding work in a number of different categories, were held on the first day… and Guru, our new learning management system for Joomla, won the an award [...]]]> http://www.ijoomla.com/blog/my-adventures-at-cms-expo-2012/ 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. Prerequisites This is an advanced article. You will need a server running mod_rewrite and [...]]]> http://www.ijoomla.com/blog/organize-your-public_html-directory/ 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 login [...]]]> http://www.ijoomla.com/blog/one-set-of-joomla-users-multiple-joomla-installs/ 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 a [...]]]> http://www.ijoomla.com/blog/back-up-your-joomla-site/ This is our weekly installment of Joomla extensions to be aware of. There are so many new extensions that come out everyday, it’s hard to stay current on what is out there and what might help you with your Joomla site. This go round we will focus on extensions from NoNumber.nl. ReReplacer ReReplacer is a [...]]]> http://www.ijoomla.com/blog/joomla-extensions-of-the-week/ 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. Firefox is currently the best bet for website editing and development. [...]]]> http://www.ijoomla.com/blog/development-browser/ 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? They [...]]]> http://www.ijoomla.com/blog/migrate-meta-tags/ 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 is [...]]]> http://www.ijoomla.com/blog/keeping-your-joomla-code-tidy/ Do you want to remove the meta tag “generator” from your Joomla site?  It’s very easy to do. In this post I will show you how to do it with a plugin, and also how to do it with a single line of code. Why do I want to remove it? Ideally you do not want large [...]]]> http://www.ijoomla.com/blog/remove-joomla-meta-name-generator-plugin/ Remember when creating a professional logo was a huge production? You had to meet with a graphic designer, explain your concept and describe the look you wanted. It took time and effort and it cost from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, depending on the designer, the quality and the concept. Then the [...]]]> http://www.ijoomla.com/blog/logo-outsourcing/