The Joomlashack Blog
Joomlashack Suport for IE6 to End Dec 14th
- Written by TJ Baker TJ Baker
- Published: 23 November 2009 23 November 2009
Mark your calendars, it's official, Joomlashack will stop supporting Internet Explorer 6 as of December 14th, 2009.
With the coming of the new year and many Joomla template providers agreeing that support for IE6 should officially end, we've decided to make the leap a bit early.
The move to stop supporting IE6 is not limited to Joomla template developers alone, in fact it's got quite a large following from web developers as a whole. Just do a Google search for 'no more IE6' and you will be treated with a list of articles, and even whole websites, dedicated to ending the life of IE6, or at least stopping the support of it.
JS Community: SEO meets community template
- Written by Tom Elliott Tom Elliott
- Published: 23 November 2009 23 November 2009
Superior SEO + limitless flexibility + seamless JomSocial styling = Joomlashack's new template, JS Community!
Built on our powerful CSS 960 grid framework, JS Community is a sleek yet sophisticated approach to design. It comes loaded with over 30 module positions, multiple source-ordered column layouts, easy to customize CSS files, and much more!
And most exciting- JS Community is ready for JomSocial, the best social networking extension available for Joomla.
Need to offer community tools to your audience but want a consistent, seamless look and feel? Try out our demo and see how JomSocial and JS Community work together for a perfect social networking experience.
How do you set up SEO optimized Websites? Do you want to learn SEO? Would be interested in SEO lessons? SEO Courses? SEO video tutorials? SEO Training? Conversion optimization lessons? Conversion optimization courses. Conversion optimization video tutorials. Conversion optimization training.
JS Community is chock full of powerful, state-of-the-art features. Check out Community's full bag of tricks, including:
Tools YOU need to know about
- Written by Tom Cannan Tom Cannan
- Published: 18 November 2009 18 November 2009
Good Day to you and welcome to Tools you need to know about.
This article is part one of the TOOL Series. In this I want to introduce you to some of my favorite tools. In the first few articles, I will discuss them generally, then in future articles, I'll spend time discussing each one.
The tools discussed will be both GPL and NON-GPL tools as well as Joomla based tools. Your comments are welcome and I hope that you find this series helpful.
Joomlashack University Reopens Today
- Written by Barrie North Barrie North
- Published: 18 November 2009 18 November 2009
In October 2009 the new Joomla training course - Joomlashack University opened its door to its first class of 100 students. For the last 4 weeks, these students have been learning how to Joomla with our rich video screencasts and tutorials and asking questions and networking in our forums.
Before launching Shack U, we knew we had a great product to offer. We gave leading Joomla figures a sneak look at the content and, as you can read yourself, they loved it.
As well as teaching insider Joomla tips and tricks to our first students, we have been taking feedback and improving the course. We have streamlined the student path through the learning content and added more courses.
After 4 weeks, we are ready to open our doors again.
Help! I've been hacked! - Now what?
- Written by Tom Cannan Tom Cannan
- Published: 17 November 2009 17 November 2009
Good day, if you are reading this, I hope you will take a few moments to really consider the need for a good incident management plan for your website. Ask yourself, What WOULD you do if you were hacked?
Joomlashack's next template is all about Community
- Written by Tom Elliott Tom Elliott
- Published: 16 November 2009 16 November 2009
Community, our latest theme due later this month, will be Joomlashack's first 1.5 native Joomla template to include matching themes for the JomSocial extension.
With social networking features become standard for many websites, JomSocial has become the must-have extension for Joomla users.
Our new Community template will integrate seemlessly with JomSocial, and give your site a consistent color and style scheme across every page.
Community will be a powerful SEO-optimized template built on our own modified 960 grid system. It'll be as fast, flexible, and simple to use as our last template, eBusiness.
We're putting the final touches and color schemes together and will release very soon.
Want to win a free copy of Community? Follow us on X / Twitter and look out for our pre-release Tweetaway!
Read more: Joomlashack's next template is all about Community
Joomla User Survey early results
- Written by Tom Elliott Tom Elliott
- Published: 11 November 2009 11 November 2009
It's early yet, but the early results from the Joomlashack 2009 Joomla User Survey are already sparking conversation about who uses Joomla, and how.
Launched 10 days ago, the Joomla User Survey has already received more than 1,000 responses, yielding a rich pile of data about many important Joomla-related questions, including:
- How Joomla users view GPL vs Non-GPL Extensions
- How Joomla security and bug releases are perceived and handled
- Usage of free vs commercial templates
And many more questions. Read on to hear some early results and to comment on the survey!
Haven't taken the survey yet? Want to be entered to win over $1,000 in prizes! Then take the survey!
Joomlashack to Match your Charitable Donation
- Written by Tom Elliott Tom Elliott
- Published: 11 November 2009 11 November 2009
Joomlashack's annual holiday charitable campaign is back with a new twist: We'll match your donations!
For the fourth year, Joomlashack is rallying our community to support a worthy charity during the holiday season.
This year we're supporting the important humanitarian efforts of Doctors without Borders (aka Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF.)
For every dollar contributed by our community, Joomlashack will match up to a total of $1,000. Other partners may match even more!
What is Médecins Sans Frontières?
An Introduction to Joomla Security
- Written by Tom Canavan Tom Canavan
- Published: 05 November 2009 05 November 2009
As a security guy, I get asked frequently about Joomla, and if it's secure. I start to answer, and am always interrupted with something along the lines of:
"..I know it's not, I just want to know how insecure it is.."
As if security is measured on a 1 to 10 scale..Security is not a scale, but a total philosophy, a set of tools and actions. Yes, it can be measured, but taking Joomla and singling it out is foolish. Looking at Joomla as part of your total site security makeup IS the right answer. You must measure security holistically. Any part of your security that is weak,weakens the entire infrastructure.
So how do you answer it? To begin with, Joomla is only as secure as the platform it is on, the extensions installed on it and the proper safeguards that are put in place. In fact, many times if a Joomla site is hacked, it could be any number of things. But here's the part that is hard for some to swallow...It's not typically Joomla's fault. it's many times the administrators fault for failing in some basic areas. Now to be fair to the admin, security is an entire practice itself, and in this article I will lay out some basic concepts both Joomla and non-joomla to help you understand how to secure your site.
Joomla Security Primer
- Written by Tom Cannan Tom Cannan
- Published: 05 November 2009 05 November 2009
As a security guy, I get asked frequently about Joomla, and if it's secure. I start to answer, and am always interrupted with something along the lines of:
"..I know it's not, I just want to know how insecure it is.."
As if security is measured on a 1 to 10 scale..Security is not a scale, but a total philosophy, a set of tools and actions. Yes, it can be measured, but taking Joomla and singling it out is foolish. Looking at Joomla as part of your total site security makeup IS the right answer. You must measure security holistically. Any part of your security that is weak,weakens the entire infrastructure.
So how do you answer it? To begin with, Joomla is only as secure as the platform it is on, the extensions installed on it and the proper safeguards that are put in place. In fact, many times if a Joomla site is hacked, it could be any number of things. But here's the part that is hard for some to swallow...It's not typically Joomla's fault. it's many times the administrators fault for failing in some basic areas. Now to be fair to the admin, security is an entire practice itself, and in this article I will lay out some basic concepts both Joomla and non-joomla to help you understand how to secure your site.