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Sample UNI Lesson: Automating daily site backups with Akeeba Backup Pro
- Written by Forest Linden Forest Linden
- Published: 08 March 2011 08 March 2011
Here's a 12 minute sample of one of our latest video tutorials at Joomlashack University called "Automating daily site backups with Akeeba Backup Pro."
Akeeba Backup is one of the most popular and most helpful extensions for Joomla that there is.
With Akeeba Backup Pro, the paid version, you can make it even more useful by setting it up to automatically make daily backups of your site and have those backup files sent to a server of your choice, such as an Amazon S3 or Rackspace Cloudfiles account.
In this video lesson, you'll see how to set up a Cloudfile account and how to configure Akeeba Backup Pro to automatically send it's daily backup files to the Cloudfile account.
Read more: Sample UNI Lesson: Automating daily site backups with Akeeba Backup Pro
Remembering the Alamo: Joomlashack team meets up in San Antonio for annual company retreat
- Written by JohnFlanagan JohnFlanagan
- Published: 02 March 2011 02 March 2011
One of the many cool things about working for an online company, like Joomlashack, is that you can log in and work from the comfort of your own home. We all get to see our families a bit more each day; can work in our PJs all day if we want; and never, ever have to worry about long commutes to work. It's a pretty sweet deal.
Our team is spread out all over the world, so working out of one central office would be a bit difficult at the moment. And that's why Skype has been such a godsend to us. It’s allowed our team to stay connected to each other despite us all being in multiple timezones.
NEW! JS Elated: An upbeat, fun & multi-purpose Joomla 1.6 template!
- Written by JohnFlanagan JohnFlanagan
- Published: 23 February 2011 23 February 2011
You'll LOVE how our latest template will make your site stand out with its feel-good colors & design
E*lat*ed - [ih-ley-tid] - adjective
very happy or proud; jubilant; in high spirits
We're *elated* to announce the release of our latest Joomlashack template, JS Elated!JS Elated is a fun & upbeat multi-purpose template that's simply perfect for any website or blog that compliments its cool, feel-good colors & styles--like a book review site/store, foodie & recipe site, scrapbooking or hobby site, a parenting blog, a coupon site, and more. This template will add warmth to any site and will make your visitors feel comfortable and right at home!
JS Elated is a Joomla! 1.5 & 1.6-compatible template featuring:
Read more: NEW! JS Elated: An upbeat, fun & multi-purpose Joomla 1.6 template!
JoomEdit - Make Joomla Dynamic Using JQuery
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 16 February 2011 16 February 2011
JoomEdit - The easy way to make your Joomla site extremely dynamic.
Don't know Javascript but want to make your website interactive and dynamic? No worries, just install JoomEdit! JoomEdit integrates Joomla with IxEdit, a powerful JavaScript-based interaction design tool.
Introducing JS Enterprise: A Joomla 1.6 Template Built for Business
- Written by JohnFlanagan JohnFlanagan
- Published: 15 February 2011 15 February 2011
This week, we're proud to announce our latest template, JS Enterprise: A Joomla 1.5/1.6 template built for business
These days, your online 'brand' is everything--whether that brand is you, your blog or your business. First impressions last, and so you only have a few seconds to win over a new visitor that comes to your site.
Now, a great-looking website is just one part of brand-building (history, good deeds, great products, awesome customer service,distinctive colors, cool logo/typography, etc also play a part in brand-building), but if your website is cluttered and unprofessional, your company's good reputation, engaging content, and awesome products won't matter much to new visitors as they'll never stick around long enough to learn more about you and your brand.
Our JS Enterprise Joomla template will help you build your online brand and give your site a clean, corporate & professional look that will make your customers feel good about visiting (and buying from) your site over and over again.
Read more: Introducing JS Enterprise: A Joomla 1.6 Template Built for Business
OSDonate - A Paypal Donate Button for Joomla
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 12 February 2011 12 February 2011
OSDonate is a Paypal Donate Button for Joomla 1.5, 2.5 and 3.
It's packed with features, it's simple to use, and it even hovers in a fixed position on the page! It's a great choice for anyone who wants their donation button noticed. It is especially useful for someone who wants a full page layout, such as Joomla developers who have a forum and can't put a donate button in a regular module position because of "lack of space".
Extend TinyMCE's Features in Joomla
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 11 February 2011 11 February 2011
This tutorial will reveal TinyMCE's hidden gem in Joomla: Extensibility.
How to Prevent Google Search Engine from Crawling Your Joomla URLs Using Robots txt
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 07 February 2011 07 February 2011
One of our students was having trouble removing URLs from Google and received this message:
"Your request has been denied because the webmaster of the site hasn't applied the appropriate robots.txt file or meta tags to block us from indexing or archiving this page. Please work with the webmaster of this site or select an alternate removal option from the webpage removal request tool"
So we created this tutorial for him, which shows how to edit Joomla's robot.txt file to block search engines from crawling certain URLs, as well as the whole site if desired.
Read more: How to Prevent Google Search Engine from Crawling Your Joomla URLs Using Robots txt
Find the Module Positions in a Joomla 2.5 Template
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 03 February 2011 03 February 2011
n this tutorial we will show you how to display the module positions of your template.
Let's get started!
Read more: Find the Module Positions in a Joomla 2.5 Template
Using OpenId and GMail Logins in Joomla
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 25 January 2011 25 January 2011
One of our students asked us how to use OpenID and GMail in Joomla, so we created this tutorial for him.
Most Joomla users don't know that the Joomla 1.5 core actually comes with OpenID and GMail plugins, but it does which makes it very easy to get things going. OpenID and GMail give your site's users a great way to login to your site and eliminates the need to remember one more username and password. For more information on either, check out https://openid.net/ and https://www.gmail.com/
Let's get started!