Tips & How to

One of the irritating features Joomla! deafult search system, for me is (was) searching character limit. Search term must be a minimum of 3 characters and a maximum of 20. However, it is possible to improve this limitation, I will show you how to fix it.

What do people see when a search finds no results in Joomla search component? A simply present a prominent message indicating that nothing was found. However, there are ways to enhance even these pages with some useful information.

Let’s look at the facts, a search results page in Joomla! 1.5 can still be modified to improve the presentation of search results.

Standard Joomla! 1.5 search results page it’s okey, but I still get questions from clients how to improve that, or just how to show more or less etc.

For some time now we can enjoy the new version of Joomla, despite the many advantages it has referred to several “failures”. One of them is a preview of module positions, in this article I will show you how to deal with it, both in both versions of Joomla!: 1.6 and joomla 1.5, as well.

In recent years the number of tools available to help you create web site has increased several times. Among them, would establish a new kinds of aplications, now It seems that we all need a wireframing or prototyping tool at our necessary tools box.

For Your Eyes Only is the twelfth spy film in the James Bond series. I made reference to the title for the simple reason that I wanted to hide the web site (intranet) built using Joomla against unauthorized people.

Certainly there is a group of people from whom you no longer want to receive messages on the mailbox. Of course, they can set their address as spam, but send them a message to be convinced that you deleted or changed your email address already.

I have been looking for scripts to build a intranet or/and extranet website, after several hours of searching I found some interesting web scripts.  I found Alfresco, Open Atrium, MediaWiki, LifeRay and a few others and installed most of them. I was pleasantly surprised but also slightly scared by the sheer amount of features that were enabled out of the box. Then came the thought, why not use something that I use every single day in my job.

Due to the frequent question: “How to recover a corrupted site / database?”. I will describe three practical and easy ways to recover the website in case of failure. But remember, your main duty is to have an efficient copy.