The Joomlashack Blog
How to Translate Joomla's Contact Form
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 22 March 2018 22 March 2018
If you follow our blog, you have a good idea of how to handle content on your multilingual Joomla site.
Now take a look at how you can translate Joomla's extensions.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to create a contact form that is available in both English and French.
How to Secure Your Joomla Site During Installation
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 16 March 2018 16 March 2018
Keeping your Joomla website from getting hacked isn't hard. However, there are some critical basics that you simply must get right first.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to make your website safe during Joomla installation.
Read more: How to Secure Your Joomla Site During Installation
How to Create a Multilingual Joomla Blog
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 13 March 2018 13 March 2018
During the last few posts on how to translate Joomla, you have seen how to translate articles and menus.
In this tutorial, you're going to take that a step further. You will learn how to translate a whole area of your site.
You're going to make a blog page for both your English and your French visitors.
How to Add More Languages to a Joomla Site
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 27 February 2018 27 February 2018
In the "Installing a New Multilingual Joomla Site" tutorial, you learned how to create a new multilingual Joomla website. This is the easiest method because Joomla does so many things automatically for you.
However, not all of us are going to be lucky enough to be in that situation. Some will need to translate an existing unilingual website. That is what you will learn by the end of this tutorial.
Why the www. Domain Mismatch Causes Joomla Errors
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 February 2018 23 February 2018
Many website builders experience problems with their site for a surprising reason: the www version of your site and the non-www version are the not the same address.
This is not a Joomla-specific issue, but it can cause problems with Joomla sites.
This issue can manifest itself as login failures, WYSIWYG editors failing to load or failing to save content, javascript execution halted with error messages.
In this blog post, you will learn what causes the www domain mismatch and what to do to avoid it.
Read more: Why the www. Domain Mismatch Causes Joomla Errors
How to Make Your Joomla Content Look More Interesting and Exciting
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 20 February 2018 20 February 2018
If you followed "The Easiest Workflow to Add Your Joomla Content" tutorial, you learned and practiced the easiest and fastest way to add content to your Joomla site. You ended that tutorial by creating about a dozen articles on your site.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to make those articles look more interesting and more exciting. Specifically, you will work on formatting the text, adding images and links, and choosing the best options for your articles.
At the end of this tutorial, you’ll be able to do the following:
- Format the text of your Joomla articles.
- Add images to your content.
- Add links to different articles and to other sites.
- Choose the best publishing, article, and metadata options for your articles.
Read more: How to Make Your Joomla Content Look More Interesting and Exciting
10 Top Tips to Speed Up Your Joomla 3 Site
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 November 2017 23 November 2017
The faster your Joomla website loads up, the better ranking it will get from Google. And you don't have to break a bank to speed it up.
In this tutorial, you will learn top ten tips on getting your Joomla site running much more quickly, on mobile devices and on the desktop.
How to choose the best Joomla Template for your project
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 31 July 2014 31 July 2014
Invest your time better when desiging a site
You already know that Joomla is a versatile platform with a theming system that provides great features and flexibility. As a Web developer working on your own projects or a client site, you also already know that it’s a great idea and the best use of your time to invest in purchasing a professional template to build upon. When you do this, you don’t have to focus on laying out the groundwork for your web-design project, because the template will take care of that. Instead, you can spend your time on the small details, the customization, the incorporated features, and the site design.
The Joomla theme market is huge, so it’s important to go into the process with a list of features, requirements, and theme characteristics that will work best for your needs, skill level, and the particular project.
Read more: How to choose the best Joomla Template for your project
6 Web-Entrepreneurship Books you Must Read
- Written by Joomlashack Joomlashack
- Published: 03 July 2014 03 July 2014
The path to becoming a successful web entrepreneur and freelancer takes a great deal of time and effort. Your friends and colleagues are good sources of advice, but you also want to hit the books during the course of your research. From marketing to work-life balance, there's plenty of resources out there for web entrepreneurs and freelancers who want to get the most out of their unconventional careers.
1. The 4-Hour Workweek
How to use Social Buttons on your site?
- Written by Joomlashack Joomlashack
- Published: 27 February 2014 27 February 2014
Once you've constructed your well-designed, responsive website, your users need to be able to spread the word about what they find there. Providing social media buttons is the basic method of encouraging people to share your content with their social media networks, and it's important to understand the best practices for posting these buttons. Here is an overview of social media buttons, to help you get started: