In this section you can read Alledia blog posts about Joomla tips and tricks.
Currently people building websites with Joomla are in an odd situation. There’s no upgrade path from Joomla 1.0.12 to Joomla 1.5, so we need to make a choice. Do we recommend the current stable version or do we ask customers…
A simple tip today. This small Joomla code hack is designed to help those of you who have a lot of people submitting content to their site. Everyone writes and submits in their own way, so its easy to…
One of the most? frequently asked questions on the Joomla forums is “What is the Itemid and what does it do?”. Its something that frustrates even experienced developers … witness the post called “Damn you, infernal item IDs!!!” on WhyJoomla.com.…
One of the most interesting Joomla developments in 2007 has been a new magazine created every week by one man – Brian Teeman, a former member of the Joomla core team. Each weekly release has the following features: …
The other day I’d been doing some testing on the search features for client’s site and I came up with some interesting results. This website, based around sports, was pulling up results headed “Mambo”, “PHP.net”, “MySQL.com”. I checked on Alledia.com…
During the last couple of weeks a new client has been complaining to us that their site was always running slow and timing out. The problem got so bad that they asked us to move it from their hosting company…
Yesterday, I read a tutorial by Copyblogger, explaining how to write attention-grabbing blog headlines. So excuse today’s exclamation mark and over enthusiasm in the headline – I’m still practising the secret of better blogging (#2)! Before your patience runs out,…
Am the only one who failed to notice the rebirth of a potentially very, very important Joomla component? GroupJive.org is a Community Builder add-on that gives: registered users the capability to create and moderate their own groups. There are currently…
Two posts today, because I wanted some good news to counteract the problems with Virtuemart mentioned in the post below. Early this week we found a great little hack, built by benneh over at the Joomla.org forum. It allows people…
We’ll begin with 5 ways to make your Joomla site as professional as possible: Create a new favicon.ico. Yes, the default black Joomla logo is cute, but people bookmarking your site they need to see something that identifies your site…