Recently I was putting up another Joomla! site and ran into a problem with a module that I’d added: the module’s title wasn’t appearing, even though I’d configured the module to show the title. I went into the Module Manager, opened the module in question, checked that “Show Title” in the “Details” section was set [...]
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My SEO guy just asked me how to set the title tag on the home page of a site created with Joomla!. Without thinking about it, I responded that the title is set using the title of the article. He pointed out that it didn’t seem to be working on the home page, so I [...]
While testing a client’s Joomla! 1.5 site with various browsers, recently, I got the following error when testing with Internet Explorer 6. Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http://www.example.com/index.php. Operation aborted. This was puzzling, as we had successfully tested the site before with IE6. IE7 and IE8 were working fine. A little checking of [...]
Chronoforms Chronoforms is an extension for Joomla! that allows you to easily create forms. The most common uses are to email information to someone (e.g. the results of a contact form) or store it in a database for later use. I’ve used it to implement basic contact forms, appointment request forms and membership applications. It’s [...]
I was looking into vulnerabilities of the extensions used on one of my sites after having been compromised repeatedly, even after upgrading to Joomla 1.5.20 (the latest stable version). I have GCalendar 2.2.4 and two other extensions installed, so I started searching for records of vulnerabilities. I found the Secunia report from 2009 and then [...]
Last month I reviewed the DJ-Promedical template for Joomla!. A representative commented on the review and argued a couple of points that I made. They pointed out a link to the documentation, which I have confirmed and reviewed. As a result, I have updated the original review. In my review, I also stated that the [...]
I purchased the DJ-Promedical template from joomla-monster.com. Here are some thoughts now that I’ve been using it for a while. Not a Joomla! 1.5 Template The first thing is that this is not a Joomla! 1.5 template, despite what joomla-monster.com says. The template’s code contains many references to the Joomla! 1.0 API, and these references [...]
As I mentioned yesterday, I’ve recently added Google Analytics to the company website and this blog. I know that I should have done it long ago, but I’ve been too busy working on other people’s sites. Since the main site uses Joomla!, I looked through the various extensions for Joomla! that support Google Analytics in [...]
I was looking for an extension to support pagination in Joomla! articles, but it turns out that Joomla! 1.5 has that feature built in. How very convenient. Update March 21, 2010: Joe asked for elaboration, so here it is. Pagination is breaking content up into multiple pages. You see this frequently on news and magazine [...]
Here’s a quick tip for all of the Joomla! 1.5 users out there. If you’re trying to hide the name of the site on the home page, you’ve probably scoured the fora looking for an answer. I know that I did, without luck. I stumbled on the answer recently while poking around. Why would you [...]
