hAlp! I am a n00b. How do I know my Joomla site is secure?

You may be new to Joomla, you may be a grizzled veteran. No matter who you are, it is always good to make sure your Joomla site is secure and not open to sploits.

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Tags: hosting, Recommended Services, security, tools of the trade, useful tips

Morph, my first impressions and general thoughts.

It’s been a long journey from late last year when Chris and Andrew mentioned to me they where looking to create a framework for developing our future templates.  What started off as a large internal project to help develop templates faster and more effectively has morphed, (yes, pun intended), into a much larger project that is touted to revolutionize how we handle templates inside of Joomla. Unfortunately I am more of a negative person than a positive person in some regards, and I had a lot of reservations about how much Morph could actually do, and if it would live up to the hype. Boy was I underestimating Chris and Andrew. (more…)

Tags: configurator, framework, Joomla, Morph, staff, themelets

Pssst, I can see your unmentionables.

phpinfo is a valuable command that can allow you to find errors and learn more about your server.  Don’t share it with everybody on the internet.

So last month you wanted to install this fancy new java-flippy-moo-fools-slider-transparency-bookmarklet-tab thingy on your website. You installed it and it didn’t work as expected, so you asked the bookmarklet-flippy-moo developer what to do. He asked you if you were using php4 or php5, and if you had GD libraries installed.  You said: (more…)

Tags: development, hosting, security, useful tips

SEF urls | More than just good looks.

SEF urls not only look good, but they make your site harder to hack. Enabling SEF urls in your Joomla backend is a great thing to learn how to do.

SEF urls serves as a dual purpose feature

The biggest advantage to SEF urls is that your website viewers and users will have pretty urls  to look at. (more…)

Tags: usability, useful tips

Change your Joomla database prefix

By default the prefix for your Joomla database is jos_. Hackers will utilize this knowledge and attempt a variety of attacks using this little default tidbit.

Quick security tip for your Joomla site

Have you ever heard of people talking about a SQL Injection?  Rest assured it has nothing to do with your doctor, and more to do with you and your site getting hacked.

“Crap, now I am scared, what do I do?” (more…)

Tags: Extensions, Hosting and Security, Joomla