Steve’s Blog

October 11, 2006

Drupal ? Creating Blogs, Forms, Portals and Community Websites

Drupal has suffered somewhat in recent months, in comparison to other CMSs such as Joomla.? Whereas Joomla, which many developers consider to be a technically inferior CMS, has steamrollered ahead, Drupal has kept on plodding along. If you don?t believe me, go to Google Trends and see how the number of people searching for Joomla has doubled every three months while Drupal has inched slowly upwards, barely doubling in the last two years. Part of Joomla?s comparative success has been its branding success. Whereas Drupal has a slightly intimidating blue head for a logo and a staunchly community-orientated focus, Joomla…

October 1, 2006

Out of Site, Out of Mind – Buying Domains

When setting up a retail business, there are many hoary clichés and pieces of advice. “Out of sight, out of mind” is among the oldest and the hoariest. It basically warns you to buy or lease the best real estate available to you in order to make your company visible. Well, what was true in the 1900s is still true today, and thus you should be thinking about buying good real estate online. Domain names are often referred to as “21st century real estate” and this is declared with good reason. A good domain can make a business. A bad…

October 1, 2006

Out of Site, Out of Mind – Buying Domains

September 1, 2006

What We Do

We build small to medium size business websites and provide superb customer service. That is our key business strategy. We specialize in companies that have between 1 and 1000 employees and we provide them with great website solutions at low prices. Our core services are: 1) Website design, plus logo and graphic design services 2) Custom software built on top of the Joomla Content Management System. 3) Training in building and maintaining Joomla websites. 4) Consulting. Unsure as to which solutions would be best for your company? We can help. 5) Domain name…

September 1, 2006

How Much Should I Pay for Web Services?

Like so much of like, getting started on the web is often a case of trial-and-error with people making plenty of mistakes in their first months and years online. In order to help our clients we’ve developed some guidelines to help people find their feet and we though we’d share them this month. This WebSavvy is a cut-out-and-keep guide to how much you should be looking to pay for important services. Domain Names Under no circumstances should you be paying more than $10 per year for a .com, .net or .org domain name. The companies that actually register the domains…

August 30, 2006

Joomla Extension of the Month – October 06

Sometimes the simplest things are the best and Jombackup Daily MySQL Backup Bot is one of those. Its just a little mambot, but what it emails you a complete backup of your database once a day. With many sites to look after this saves us hours of work and comes with a wide range of options for exporting the database. Thanks to Jomres.net for October's Extension of the Month.

August 14, 2006

Joomla Trademark Discussion with Rob Schley

1) Hi Rob. Could you tell us about the trademark decision. What changes will this have for the Joomla project? Well, Steve … 2) What will the policy be regarding prior use? The Joomla! project has always taken a liberal approach to use of the Joomla! name and logo and we intend to continue to be as liberal as we can while fulfilling our responsibility to protect the integrity of the Joomla! brand. As long as the usage complies with the terms set out in the brand manual and our trademark guide (no pornography, no warez, no trademarks, not…

July 26, 2006

Protect Your Domain Research

Lots of people in the domain industry have suspected it but hard evidence is finally emerging that people are spying on your domain research. Basically, if you're searching for a domain but don't buy it immediately, there is a good chance that someone will get there ahead of you. Click here to read the relevant EWeek article. So how do you protect your privacy?. Simple – create your own WhoIs look-up. Save the following code as a file called whois.php and upload it to your server. Voila! You can see ours at www.alledia.com Thanks to members of NamePros.com for this…

July 26, 2006

How to Reset a Lost SuperAdmin Password

If you do lose your SuperAdmin password for Joomla, don’t worry because theres an easy way to get it back. Just login to your MySQL database and run this query for Versions up to Joomla 1.0.12. UPDATE `jos_users` SET `name` = ‘admin’, `password` = ‘21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3’ WHERE `id` =62 LIMIT 1 ; Versions from Joomla 1.0.13 to 1.0.15 UPDATE `jos_users` SET `name` = ‘admin’, `password` = ‘af9083d4b82dbc0745b124db3b3cf15d:M0WuLowO4rtRTddG’ WHERE `id` =62 LIMIT 1 ; Your username will now be admin and your password will be admin also. If you’re running an older version of Joomla or Mambo, you might need to change…