Tips & How to

While it’s easy to detect what version of Joomla a site is running, it is not as easy to detect what revision a site is running. When I receive a support email from a new client, one of the questions that I usually ask is “Which version of Joomla are you using?” But in many cases, the client doesn’t know the version, so I’ve check his Joomla website to find out which version he’s using.

Analyzing the functionality of Joomla 2.5 (and Joomla 3.0) I come to the conclusion that it has a very good engine, based on which to build the intranet site.

Question: What annoys you the most when dealing with clients on Joomla Web projects? I’ll bet I know! Ideas provided in this article are intended to help reduce issues which sometimes arise between us and them (service provider and client) when dealing with website administration.

How can we learn from the official announcement, Joomla 3 will bring CMS up-to-speed with the mobile revolution that is taking over the web. It’s predicted that, as soon next years, more people will be online via their smartphone than a desktop. The mobile version of web site may soon be more important than the desktop version.

You offer products or services on the Web, each with different features and prices. How best to present available options? Comparison price tables! These tables are the most commonly-used method on commercial websites to present product and service price plans. An effective pricing table will help your users choose the most appropriate plan for them, and it can also help to attract and convert more customers.

There are few main reasons to make your website faster: Higher conversion rates, lower bandwidth costs, higher rankings in organic search. Fast websites also less irritate your visitors which increases the chance that they would purchase product or service or just stay longer at your website. That’s why optimizing your Joomla site should be a top priority.

After first install a new version of VirtueMart 2, a popular Joomla e-commerce extension, you’ll probably get a warning message: “Warning, the Safe Path is empty, for safety reasons it is very important to create a folder in a path not accessible by an URL…”.

For testing purpose, you will occasionally need to see the mobile view of your Joomla Template in your Web browser. Mobile interfaces are usually very small and so their dimensions of the display must be adjusted.

Have you ever wondered how to create similar menu to the one used at Joomla.org, which features multiple columns and a load of modules? Unfortunately, by default neither Joomla! 2.5 nor Joomla! 3.0 offer capability.

In Joomla 2.5/ 3, you can use more than one design template in your webpage. This means that you can create a webpage with groups of subpages, or even individual subpages that have a unique style.