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

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.

"Mummy I see your phpinfo"

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

Website hosting – what you need to know

At some point in our lives we all hope our websites get popular enough to generate some traffic and get us some exposure. No matter if you have built a small family website, or a large corporate site you will hope to have a lot of people view your site.

If you are new to website building you might be a bit confused about what type of hosting is best for you. You now have to worry about your sites security, running backups and keeping things running smooth.

For example if your site gets hacked or goes offline and you don’t know about it, or know how to fix it, all your hard work is wasted. Here are some tips anybody who works on websites for a living needs to know. (more…)

Tags: hosting, Hosting and Security, Joomla, technology, useful tips

Getting IE6 transparency to work is now easier than ever before

Over the last few years I have learned how to live along with the dreaded IE6 browser and code in a way that keeps it happy most of the time and keeping bugs to the minimum. One area however that just keeps on frustrating me is the lack of transparency support for native transparent png in IE6.

Those of you who know Aurora, one of our most famous templates to date which uses extensive transparency, will be surprised to hear I am still struggling with png transparency, so let me explain…

Png transparency in IE6 – how hard can it be?

I am currently working on one of the up-and-coming new template releases for JoomlaJunkie (not Dark Rational) which uses a few elements of transparency – which I thought would be no major task after making an entire template transparent.

How wrong could I have been… (more…)

Tags: css, Design, useful tips