The Joomlashack Blog
Say hello to our latest Joomla 1.5/1.7 template, SCENICA
- Written by JohnFlanagan JohnFlanagan
- Published: 28 June 2011 28 June 2011
We've just released a brand new Joomla 1.5 / 1.7 template today at Joomlashack.com called Scenica that's sure to bring your website to life.
Scenica is a gorgeous new template that's perfect for anyone who wants to present their message in a more visual way. It's eye-catching slideshow backgrounds (with built-in slideshow), clean design and open layout work well with photo galleries, sites for visual artists, musicians, travel destinations, fashion & apparel sites and events & conferences. In fact, Scenica has built-in styling for the awesome new Joomla events management extension, Ohanah.
Read more: Say hello to our latest Joomla 1.5/1.7 template, SCENICA
How to Hide the Module Positions in Your Joomla 1.5 Site
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 24 June 2011 24 June 2011
This tutorial will show you how to hide your module positions in your Joomla! 1.5 site by preventing someone from adding ?tp=1 to your domain name. Joomla 1.6 and 1.7 have this feature built-in so this need not apply for versions above 1.5.
Read more: How to Hide the Module Positions in Your Joomla 1.5 Site
Advanced Module Manager Tutorial
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 21 June 2011 21 June 2011
Joomla gives you very limited control over the placement of modules. This extension from NoNumber will let you place them anywhere within your site, and even allow you to control the time and day they are published or unpublished.
With the Modules Anywhere plugin, you can get ultimate control over placement and display.
If Frank Gehry were a web-designer?
- Written by Joomlashack Joomlashack
- Published: 20 June 2011 20 June 2011
On more than one occasion I have heard people compare our web design industry with architecture.
It’s an easy comparison to make. Websites are a lot like custom designed buildings. The client, for a web site or a building, will approach a designer with a specific set of needs and objectives he or she needs to incorporate into the design. Both may have difficult problems that need to be addressed in an elegant, efficient, and flowing manner. Both need to editorialize and often fit less rather than more. The parallels between the two industries are many.
How to Use the Modules Anywhere Extension
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 17 June 2011 17 June 2011
Modules Anywhere is one of the niftiest plugins you can use in Joomla.
The extension is named well: It allows you to put a module anywhere on your site.
With the click of a button you can place a module inside an article or inside another module. It makes it easy to place and also control the looks of all your modules.
Make Sitewide Replacements With ReReplacer
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 17 June 2011 17 June 2011
Do you have a misspelled word, a change of address, or just about anything that needs to be modified throughout a Joomla site?
It can be a tedious job, especially in large sites, and you always seem to miss some places when you need to do it manually.
ReReplacer is a plugin that lets you make global replacements throughout the site, Including meta tags. Automating the task makes it fast, accurate and complete.
New Joomla Templates Have Arrived!
- Written by JohnFlanagan JohnFlanagan
- Published: 14 June 2011 14 June 2011
We've added some cool new Joomla 1.5 templates to our Joomla Template Gallery this week (Academia, Ascension & Marble) and updated one of our most popular Joomla templates to 1.6 (Onyx). They're all available now and ready for purchase.
5 Things Every Joomla Website Owner Should Know
- Written by Forest Linden Forest Linden
- Published: 31 May 2011 31 May 2011
Every month it seems I end up in a conversation with a new friend or acquaintance that has a website built on Joomla, and when they find out that I train people how to use Joomla, I invariably find myself telling them a handful of things that I feel are essential things to get in order if you have a Joomla powered site.
The list of things I mention is most often the same, so I thought I’d share it in hopes that it might help you with your own Joomla powered site.
Without a doubt, the first thing I suggest to people is to get their site moved to a webhost that is known to work well with Joomla and that has taken great steps in creating a secure server environment.
My top choice, and the host I always recommend, is Rochen. I’ve been using them for years, we host the Joomlashack sites there, the main Joomla websites are hosted there, and I’ve never had any major problems with any sites hosted at Rochen.
Sneak Peek at some upcoming changes to Joomlashack
- Written by Jeremy Wilken Jeremy Wilken
- Published: 23 May 2011 23 May 2011
Here at Joomlashack we work very hard to provide our customers with the best products and service in the industry, however we are never satisfied, so in our efforts to continually improve ourselves we want to share with you some of the major changes we are making...
Read more: Sneak Peek at some upcoming changes to Joomlashack
Move a custom Joomla template from localhost to a production server
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 18 May 2011 18 May 2011
You've got a site up on your server. You spend a lot of time tweaking the template on your local computer. Now it's time to upload your changes to the productions server and make sure it all works.
Uploading the changes could not be easier than this. It only takes two simple steps.
Read more: Move a custom Joomla template from localhost to a production server