Most of our clients want to track the performance of their Joomla website – and what better way to track that performance than with Google Analytics? Google Analytics provides the website owner with a wealth of information about his website: how many visitors the websites gets per day, where these visitors are coming from, and […]
We’re currently having an increasing number of clients emailing us that they’re seeing the following error (repeated twice) on their homepage: Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 The homepage doesn’t display anything else, just this message (again, the message is usually displayed twice). So, what is the cause […]
Some time ago, we have written a post on the best Joomla version – we said that is was Joomla 2.5 (in case you don’t have time to read the post). Since then, we had some of our customers ask us, “what is the worst Joomla version?” Before answering, you probably might think we are […]
Note: This post is targeted at absolute beginners in Joomla as we have noticed that the “global check-in not working” issue is extremely common for those who are very new to Joomla. We get regular calls from some of our customers who are very new to Joomla complaining that they cannot perform a global check-in […]
Some of our more technical clients tell us that they want to become certified in Joomla. They ask us if such a certification exists – and if it does – how can one become certified. Our answer is always as follows: There is no official certification in Joomla. There are some commercial companies offering certifications […]
We are getting an increasing number of requests from clients asking us to build a social networking website (à la Facebook – but on a smaller scale), with Joomla. Here’s how the first conversation between us and these clients goes: “Hello, my name is John Smith, and I was thinking you might be able to […]
Warning: Mootools is a well known (and very stable) JavaScript library that is used to support many client-side activities on Joomla. Disabling it/removing it (or replacing it with another library) might cause a lot of instability on your Joomla website and may render your Joomla website (especially its backend) completely inoperable. Please proceed carefully and, […]
Often these days, clients call us after we unhack their Joomla website and tell us that it’s still hacked! So we examine their website and discover that the website is clean. We communicate to them our results, and they get back to us shortly and they say that when they go to their website on […]
Note: This post only applies to Joomla 2.5. We got an email very early this morning from one of our regular customers. Here’s the email (minus, of course, our customer’s information): “Hi, I’m not able to reset my password. When I try to reset it using the password reminder tool I get the following error: […]
Yesterday we were working on the migration of a very old website. That website had a simple module that was programmed to display, on the website, whatever it had in the field JavaScript Code. As the name suggests, that field contained some JavaScript code. When we migrated the module to Joomla 2.5, we ran into […]
Note: This post is very advanced and is targeted at programmers. If you’re not a programmer, you can ask us to do the below for you. As of May of last year, we are often getting several hacked Joomla websites a day to clean. In this post, we are going to share with our readers/clients […]
One of our clients asked to add a shortcut icon to K2 in the top menu. As some might know, there’s a Joomla module that already does that, so we just downloaded that module and installed it and that was it! But we thought, what if such a module didn’t exist, or what if a […]
Very early in the morning today, one of our regular customers came to us and told us that his website was down because of a “missing field” in the jos_content (of course, jos_ was not his real prefix) table. We checked his website and we were greeted by an error complaining about an unknown column […]