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Written by Alledia Blog
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Monday, 18 August 2008 |
After Joomla's recent security issues (http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/241-20080801-core-password-remind-functionality.html), people have been double-checking their sites. In some cases it's easy to tell if your site has been hacked (the large Turkish flag and blaring music are strong hints) and on other occasions, the hackers might leave no trace.
One of my colleagues found a very subtle hack ... his robots.txt file has been altered to block his entire site from being indexed by Google. The hack had been in place since June, causing him to lose all his rankings. It's likely that this was a highly motivated rival rather than just another group of script kiddies.
Is it possible to defend against these subtle attacks? In this case, yes.
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Written by Alledia Blog
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Saturday, 16 August 2008 |
We have a few tickets left for our Joomla Training in Atlanta (http://atlantajoomla808.eventbrite.com/), next weekend, Saturday August 23rd. Click here to sign up (http://atlantajoomla808.eventbrite.com/), and use the coupon blog for a $100 discount!
In addition to the class, attendees get:
Lunch and coffee / snacks throughout the day.
Free membership to our SEO Club.
Free copy of Barrie North's best selling Joomla Admin Manual eBook.
A flash drive full of tutorials and best-of-breed Joomla components.
Coming up December, we're taking our training to Colorado and early birds get a $200 discount! Read on for more details:
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Written by barrie@compassdesigns.net
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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If you have a new site, you want to get traffic. The 800 lb gorilla for this is of course Google.
So how can you get indexed as quickly as possible in Google and start to get that great free organic SEO traffic.
I came across a few great tips from IdeaPro.com as I was trying to answer this question myself!
Tip #1 - Get Quality backlinks from free blogs
You need to build quality back-links pointing to your new site.
These can be accomplished quickly and will cost you [...]
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Written by Alledia Blog
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
Joomla.org has a new template today. The design looks a little similar to the website of another new, disruptive force in the United States:
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Written by Alledia Blog
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
I've made this chart after getting several requests in the last few days, all asking which Joomla E-Commerce they should use. There's no right answer as the two main shopping carts, Virtuemart and Digistore (http://www.iJoomla.com/243-8-3-18.html), are both very different.
There are two more shopping carts available that look like they may become contenders. Freeway (http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,4194/Itemid,35/) is an enhanced modification of osCommerce and IXXO (http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,4097/Itemid,35/) is a commercial script I haven't had the chance to purchase yet. If developers or users of either project want to send the information needed for this chart, I'll happily add them.
Also, if any major features are missing that need comparing, drop a note in the comments.
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Written by the whyjoomla? blog
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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Incase you didn't catch the heads-up on joomla.org yesterday - a new security patch for and full version of Joomla 1.5x has been released.
Apparently a bug in 1.5.5 was allowing unscrupulous fellows to change people's login passwords... which is quite a big deal in my book. Typically the error is reported to leave the main site admin account open to editing! You can read more on this issue in the Joomla Developer Blog (http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/241-20080801-core-password-remind-functionality.html) .
Security bugs are always a little scary but one thing to note with Joomla in general is that the loopholes always get closed very quickly - in fact, when you cruise through the Joomla forums (http://forum.joomla.org/) its hard to find many posts reporting sites being hacked due to security flaws in Joomla core.
I recommend upgrading your Joomla 1.5.x site immediately to 1.5.6 - there are simple patches available on joomlacode.org (http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/) (scroll down to the 1.5.6 upgrades section) which you can download and just upload on top of your current install; a process which takes just a couple of minutes.
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Written by barrie@compassdesigns.net
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 |
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Its recently surfaced that there is a small hole in the password reset process for Joomla 1.5. Recently for me as this site was hacked late this afternoon and I spent an amusing hour or so tussling with the would be hacker and me in the backend of the site. He was busy deleting articles, I was busy deleting his user. The j.org team have released a fix already. Its a critical security patch and part of 1.5.6. You should update your site ASAP if you are running Joomla 1.5. On a r [...]
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Written by Alledia Blog
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
There has been an interesting update to the forum sections on the Joomla Extensions Directory. It has been split into Native Joomla Forums (http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,listcats/cat_id,1778/Itemid,35/) and Forum Bridges (http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,listcats/cat_id,1969/Itemid,35/).
I was shocked to see only five native Joomla forums remaining. There are two native forums with a wide range of features:
FireBoard (http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,2134/Itemid,35/) (still in legacy mode on Joomla 1.5 until version 2.0 in the fall (http://www.bestofjoomla.net/wiki/doku.php?id=com_fireboard:fireboard_roadmap:start))Joo!BB (http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,3438/Itemid,35/) (still in Alpha)
And three very basic forums:
Simplest Forum (http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,3131/Itemid,35/)
Rapid Forum (http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,4830/Itemid,35/)
Nice Talk (http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,1676/Itemid,35/)
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Written by Blog - Joomlatools
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Thursday, 07 August 2008 |
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Written by contact@compassdesigns.net
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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 |
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You can still book Joomla training in Manchester, NH and get $50 with early bird pricing. There are 10 spots still left, and early bird ends tomorrow. Make sure you get your worm! joomla-university-manchester-aug08.eventbrite.com
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