Now how’s that for an opening… Actually I am very happy to see this post today of Jinx telling you about the lie about Joomla 1.5 and Loosing ItemID’s in the URL. Joomla! 1.5 Accessibility – Look Ma no Itemid’s Read the post and check the URL examples he provides both with Mod_rewrite on and without! [...]
Ten Things to do after a new Joomla installation

Here are Ten Things that I do after a fresh Joomla installation, If you haven’t done this to your installation, you can always correct it ! Just kidding, its more like one of my Joomla best practice things… 1. Change the admin login name 2. Secure the Administration directory 3. Install SEF Patch 4. Install OpenSEF (or other SEF [...]
Building Joomla 1.5 Templates Tutorial
Today I got a great resource link via my Joomla! RSS feed of the Joomla! Developer Network. Barry North from Compassdesign has brought us a Sample Chapter of his new Joomla Book. You must know that I rank Barry North as a very Good Resource and highly knowledgeable person as it comes to Joomla!. And when [...]
Open-Sef and Normal Joomla URLs
Sometimes I get a question from a Joomla website owner. Mostly its about using a Joomla SEF Component, like Open-Sef. The website owner is often trying to get a better ranking for his website by using Search Engine Optimization. But on some keywords they already have a good ranking, that they don’t want to loose!! They sometimes have [...]

