An old client of ours called us yesterday evening and told us that his website was extremely slow to load. Our first guess was that it was hacked, but it was not; his website was very clean. What could it be? We then thought, well, maybe he has some huge queries running in the background […]

One of the most exciting things about owning a Joomla website is that one can build an e-commerce website in a very short period. Imagine that, it takes just a few days for you to sell your own products/services online and benefit from that huge market! But, unfortunately, in the real world, it’s not always […]

K2, for those who don’t know, is a powerful extension that can be used to completely replace Joomla’s own content management system. In other words, you no longer need to create Joomla articles and categories, you can just create K2 articles and categories. In fact, many of our customers use K2 and we are currently […]

Some of the very old websites that we migrate to Joomla 2.5 may show the following error on K2 or VirtueMart pages: JUser: :_load: Unable to load user with ID: 62 (Note that 62 might be another number, such as 42) The reason for the error is that the component is trying to load a […]

Many of the Joomla websites we work on have multithumb installed. Multithumb, in case you don’t know what it is, is a Joomla plugin that automatically converts images to thumbnails (or smaller images) so as not to break the layout of the page. In some cases, multithumb works perfectly, but in many cases, its settings […]