phpinfo is a valuable command that can allow you to find errors and learn more about your server. Don’t share it with everybody on the internet.

So last month you wanted to install this fancy new java-flippy-moo-fools-slider-transparency-bookmarklet-tab thingy on your website.  You installed it and it didn’t work as expected, so you asked the bookmarklet-flippy-moo developer what to do.  He asked you if you were using php4 or php5, and if you had GD libraries installed. You said:  “I dunno, what’s php?” read more…

New Joomla users are popping up left and right and thats great for the community.

We are seeing a surge of new users to the Joomla community. This is great news and encouraging for Joomla as a whole. We have loved and used Joomla for years, and anytime somebody else discovers the ease of use and flexibility that Joomla offers we get excited.
We have compiled a short list of helpful resources for new Joomla users. Check out some of the things we feel are useful. read more…

As many times as I tell people to not develop on a live site for numerious reasons, it is still commonplace.  I admit, I do it sometimes as well. Let’s block Google with robots.txt

The problem is Google and search engines will be actively indexing your new site and invariably you will be stuck with crappy search results for a period of time after you finish your site.  Read more to find out how to fix this embarrassing error. read more…

Happy Thanksgiving to all the US based readers.

No tips today, as we are spending time with our families. We hope you have a good holiday. Eat some gobble gobble and get some sleep.

Sometimes you may have to take your site offline, or during development you wish to keep the doors shut.

That default Joomla page that proclaims your site is closed is pretty drab.  What to do? The easy thing is to simply change the grammar via your Joomla backend. By default it is:
This site is down for maintenance. Please check back again soon.

You could even go so far as to add some basic html to this area, but that still pretty boring, and not very semantic. Why not do something fancier? read more…