The Joomlashack Blog
How to change the administrator template in Joomla! 1.5
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 13 October 2008 13 October 2008
One of the greatest things about Joomla! is the ability to customize anything you want. It even enables you to change the template that you use for the administrator back end of your site, just as easily as you can change the template for the front end of your site. The default template for the Joomla! 1.5 administrator is the culmination of countless hours of design work by Andy Miller, and it provides a great interface for managing your site. However, the brilliant minds behind Joomla! recognized that there would be possible reasons for modifying the look of the administrator interface, so they used the same template system for the back end as they use for the front end. Read on to see how to change the administrator template.
Read more: How to change the administrator template in Joomla! 1.5
How to pick a Joomla! host
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 10 October 2008 10 October 2008
There are a lot of things to consider when choosing a web host. Usually the first things we look at are price, storage, and bandwidth, but I would argue that storage and bandwidth are mostly irrelevant as criteria for choosing a host. Buying a hosting service because it offers a huge amount of storage and bandwidth is like buying a car because it has tires. Every web host offers tons of storage and tons of bandwidth for a reasonably low price, so that really takes those two things out of the equation. Price is important, but I would also argue that it should not be the most important factor either. Read on to get some tips for what to look for in a Joomla! host.
Lighfast Reloaded
- Written by TJ Baker TJ Baker
- Published: 03 October 2008 03 October 2008
We're excited about one of our more popular template designs, Lightfast which has just undergone a huge update.
We've added 2 more gorgeous themes as well as completely overhauled the CSS structure, making it easier to customize than ever.
Lightfast is one of the only true source ordered templates for Joomla! This means, if you use this template we guarantee better SEO.
Lightfast is perhaps our most unique template available. We're confident you won't find another Joomla! template like it in terms of SEO, usability, and accessibility.
Update Highlights:
- Added two new theme styles: Vintage & SuperBlack!
- Now Joomla! 1.0 & 1.5 Native
- Added Quicklauncher packages for Joomla! 1.0 & 1.5
- Added/Revamped Complete Customization Stylesheet
- Added Easy Template Settings for Joomla! 1.0
- Added Easy Template Settings for Joomla! 1.5
Just $39.95!
Joomla 1.5.7 Released- 1 critical, 1 major vulernability fixed
- Written by Tom Elliott Tom Elliott
- Published: 30 September 2008 30 September 2008
Are you keeping up with Joomla 1.5 updates?
The Joomla Project is moving along and fixing security and other problems monthly now, and it's important to keep on top of these regular updates.
Need a template for your Joomla 1.5 site?
From their news release, see what's changed in this most recent version:
Read more: Joomla 1.5.7 Released- 1 critical, 1 major vulernability fixed
Vote Joomla in CMS before October 20th
- Written by Tom Elliott Tom Elliott
- Published: 30 September 2008 30 September 2008
HURRY TO VOTE BEFORE MONDAY, OCTOBER 20th!
It's time for the third annual Open Source Content Management System Awards.
Last year, over 18,000 voters and a panel of judges named Joomla the best PHP open source CMS. Joomla lost to Drupal for best overall open source CMS. But that was before the release of Joomla 1.5.
Voting has begun for the 2008Open Source CMS Awards. Joomla has again been nominated in two categories:
To vote for Joomla in either of these categories, click on the links above and then click on the links for Joomla. The "vote now" button is at the bottom of the description.
At stake are bragging rights and $7,000 in prize money for the Joomla Project. So go vote!
How to change your default images directory in Joomla! 1.5
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 26 September 2008 26 September 2008
One of the most annoying things about Joomla! (in my opinion) is that the default images directory (or folder, whatever you want to call it) is yoursite.com/images/stories, and the default directory for the media manager is yoursite.com/images. That makes no sense to me. Read on to find out why this makes no sense, and how you can easily fix it.
Read more: How to change your default images directory in Joomla! 1.5
How to create a Joomla sitemap
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 22 September 2008 22 September 2008
I recently read an articlenthat shared an ingenious method for creating a site map in Joomla using your existing menus, menu modules. We recommend OSMap:
Video introduction to OSMap
Urgent Joomla 1.5 security vulnerability discovered
- Written by Tom Elliott Tom Elliott
- Published: 13 August 2008 13 August 2008
From the Joomla.org website:
The Joomla! community is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla! 1.5.6 [Vusani]. This is a quick turnaround security release to address a high level security issue and it is recommended all users upgrade immediately.
A flaw in the reset token validation mechanism allows for non-validating tokens to be forged. This will allow an unauthenticated, unauthorized user to reset the password of the first enabled user (lowest id). Typically, this is an administrator user. Note, that changing the first users username may lessen the impact of this exploit (since the person who changed the password does not know the login associated with the new password). However, the only way to completely rectify the issue is to upgrade to 1.5.6 (or patch the /components/com_user/models/reset.php file).
For more information about this exploit, click here to visit the Joomla Security Blog.
Our latest Joomla 1.5 ready template: Earthblog by Joomlashack
- Written by Tom Elliott Tom Elliott
- Published: 05 August 2008 05 August 2008
The "Earthblog" Joomla! template is a great template for technical sites, blogs, communities, churches, portals, and so many more.
This template has a variety of time saving extras such as matching JCalPro themes and a super-lightweight mootools slider module to attract readers to your featured content!
When you purchase the Earthblog template package, you'll get all the preset styles shown in this demo as well as the Fireworks graphic source files used to create this template. To make things even easier for you, we've separated the entire CSS structure from presentation in a separate commented file that can easily be modified.
EarthBlog is a Joomla 1.5 native template only. Check it out today!
Read more: Our latest Joomla 1.5 ready template: Earthblog by Joomlashack
Our latest Joomla 1.5 ready template: Earthblog by Joomlashack
- Written by Tom Elliott Tom Elliott
- Published: 05 August 2008 05 August 2008
The "Earthblog" Joomla! template is a great template for technical sites, blogs, communities, churches, portals, and so many more.
This template has a variety of time saving extras such as matching JCalPro themes and a super-lightweight mootools slider module to attract readers to your featured content!
When you purchase the Earthblog template package, you'll get all the preset styles shown in this demo as well as the Fireworks graphic source files used to create this template. To make things even easier for you, we've separated the entire CSS structure from presentation in a separate commented file that can easily be modified.
EarthBlog is a Joomla 1.5 native template only. Check it out today!
Read more: Our latest Joomla 1.5 ready template: Earthblog by Joomlashack