Joomla Template Workshop (LIVE)

Daniel from Compojoom.com, creator of the Joomla template “Biggie Smalls”, is now meeting the demand from the community and is offering a live workshop.

“…a lot of my members asked me if I could show them how to make templates like I did; therefore by popular demand, I’m organizing a live training webinar wherein I will teach you all you need to know in matter of 3 hours instead of the 3 months it would take you should you have decided to go figure it out yourself.”

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How to change a websites php memory_limit

Have you ever installed a Joomla extension and got nothing but a white screen?

Most likely you hit the memory limit on your server. Memory limits help to keep scripts from running out of control or using up all of your free memory. On the other hand, sometimes you are adding a fancy extension to your site, that simply requires slightly more memory then the default 8mb that Apache gives you. Let’s show you how to fix that.

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Lose the WYSIWYG editor in Joomla

The editor is great in Joomla, don’t take this the wrong way, but if you want perfectly formatted content that displays exactly how you want it, there is no replacement for hand coding your articles.

Yes, it is great to be able to write a quick article and click a few buttons in the editor window to align things, but in the long run, you are really just hindering your education. Knowing basic html is going to help you make cleaner, more readable, and more reliable websites. Most articles consist of a lot of:
< p > and < h*> tags.
Why run the risk of using a editor that may insert all sorts of nonsense like using < p >< /p > as spacers? It’s not semantic, it makes no sense, and it’s invariably going to cause you issues over the long haul.

Get a html cheat cheat, keep it nearby, and go unpublish all your WYSIWYG plugins in Joomla. You will be glad you did.

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Use Google apps for email and more

You built a website for a client, now they want email addresses and a bunch more stuff.

It’s downright silly to not take care of this for your client as well. Google apps is a great resource for Joomla developers and website builders. Make sure you take advantage of this free and brilliant resource.

Why would I have Google do email, when my webhost does it already?

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Build your site locally, it’s much faster and smarter.

Develop your Joomla site on your own network. You will be amazed how much faster you will get things done.

Building your site locally is much faster and simpler then uploading and waiting for page refreshes constantly on a remote server. The local build will then double as a sandbox test environment when your site goes live, as you should never be doing updates or upgrades to a live site.

Depending on what operating system you use, you will have two options I would suggest: read more…

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