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How to Build Multilingual Joomla Sites
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 19 January 2012 19 January 2012
For many years, there was one name that everyone turned to when creating multilingual Joomla sites: Joomfish. However, that changed in 2011.
First, some of the features from Joomfish were incorporated into Joomla 1.6, and so it was possible to make a decent multi-lingual site using only the Joomla core. We have a tutorial on how do that here.
Second, a release of Joomfish for the latest version of Joomla has been slow in coming. It's hoped that Joomfish will soon be ready any day now for the latest Joomla. However, for now many people have been using a fork called FaLang. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to use FaLang. When Joomfish becomes available, the instructions will be almost identical.
Create a Test Site Joomla 2.5 or 1.5
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 11 January 2012 11 January 2012
How to Upgrade Joomla 1.6 to 2.5
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 11 January 2012 11 January 2012
You're still on Joomla 1.6? Yikes. Joomla 1.6 is over a year old now and isn't supported any more because there have been several new versions since then.
OK, I'm not going to give you too much of a hard time. You might have been busy, maybe you're taking over someone's website or you might be stuck on Joomla 1.6 for one of a hundred other reasons.
Let's focus on getting you upgraded to Joomla 2.5 which is the latest and most secure version.
jUpgrade Undefined Property and Pausing Problems
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 10 January 2012 10 January 2012
Now that Joomla 2.5 is upon us, and support for 1.5 will be going away, the decision to migrate is a hot topic.
Back in July, we wrote a very detailed tutorial on how to migrate using the jUpgrade extension. This tutorial is a follow-up. Migrating large sites can be a tricky task and in this tutorial we'll show you how to overcome two of the most frequently encountered problems with jUpgrade.
25 Improvements in Joomla 2.5
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 29 December 2011 29 December 2011
Joomla 2.5 is the third version to be launched using Joomla's new release cycle. After the launch of 1.6 in January and 1.7 in July, the benefits of the new realease cycle are really becoming clear. Releases are on time, well organized and increasingly contain a lot of great improvements.
In this tutorial we're going to focus on the upgrades to the Joomla 2.5 administrator area. We've collected 25 of the most useful improvements.
Joomla 2.5 Is Coming!
- Published: 26 December 2011 26 December 2011
Joomla 2.5 is coming, and Joomlashack is ready!
The next release of Joomla is just around the corner (slated for release before the end of January 2012), and soon after its release older versions will stop being officially supported by Joomla. We want to share with you our plans for supporting our products, and to answer the questions that many have starting asking about support for 2.5.
Editing Options for Joomla's Contacts Component
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 14 December 2011 14 December 2011
Is your Joomla contact form not showing correctly despite what you've selected to show? It could be your global options are overriding your options.
This tutorial will show you how to edit your Contacts options.
If you're new to Joomla and want to see how to create these forms, read this guide: How to create Joomla contact forms.
Ordering Articles, Menus and Modules in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 11 December 2011 11 December 2011
This is a tutorial that will show you how to reorder articles, menu links, modules in Joomla 1.5 and 2.5. The same technique also applies to sections, categories, plugins and more ... in fact almost anything that you'd want to reorder in a Joomla site.
The process is slightly different in both versions so we've divided the tutorial in two sections: one for 1.5 and another for 2.5.
HikaShop - Ecommerce for Joomla
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 08 December 2011 08 December 2011
HikaShop is a relatively new shopping cart for Joomla. It's becoming a strong competitor to Virtuemart, and we're starting to get more and more questions about it from students. HikaShop comes in both a free version and two levels of commercial versions.
Since HikaShop is fully integrated with Joomla, you can get started very quickly. However, you do have to learn some new ideas on how to enter products. In this tutorial we'll show you everything you'll need to get up and running with HikaShop.
You can also read our tutorials on other Joomla ecommerce solutions: Virtuemart, RokQuickCart, SimpleCaddy, K2Mart and building a custom cart.
If you want to go further, we have a 20 video training class on Hikashop.
The Ultimate Joomla Admin Templates Guide
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 30 November 2011 30 November 2011
The current Joomla admin template called Blue Stork has improvements over the 1.5 version, but that doesn't mean it can't be improved as well.
Joomla 1.6 / 1.7 is the first version to ship with more than one design for the admin area - it included Hathor in addition to Blue Stork. Several template designers have also created templates that aim to make it easier to use, look more attractive and have additional functionality.
In this guide we're going to show you all of the options that you have for redesigning your Joomla admin area.