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04Oct2021

Install Joomla! the right way

Disable the FTP layer

Check the PHP environment

Enable the System - Joomla! Notification plugin

Update Sites

Disinfect the website

Backup the website

Use a separate site for testing

Keep those third-party extensions up-to-date

Use the Joomla! Update component

Joomla! is a popular way for people to build their websites: it’s easy to installI produced a video tutorial a few years ago that shows how to create a basic Joomla! website in under 15 minutes. and it’s easy to maintain.  So why do people have trouble maintaining their Joomla! websites?

In a previous article, we discussed the importance of having a maintenance strategy so that you won’t wake up up one day to see months or years of hard work suddenly disappear with inexplicable HTTP error messages or remnants of your craft indistinguishable from a jig-saw puzzle with half the pieces missing.  This article contains the top ten things that you can do today to make sure you will be able to maintain your Joomla! websites for many more months or years to come.

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07Sep2021

Behind the scenes September 2021

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Joomla J! 3.x and 4.0 releases

A few new products

Changes to the downloads page

Preparations for launching a new business

As you will probably guess from the image I've used with this article, this article has been on my list of things to do for a long time!  Since I created my last behind-the-scenes article nearly three years ago, a lot has happened.  The Joomla development team has produced twenty-nine new versions for J! 3.x, including the long-awaited release of J! 3.10, as well as thirteen test versions for J! 4 and now the [even more long-awaited] release of J! 4.0 as a stable version.  Those developments have kept me very busy testing those releases and writing about them.

Enough said about what’s happened with Joomla!  The world has been shaken with a global pandemic that pales “achievements” in IT by comparison. I think we would all agree with that.  In the meantime, I haven’t been idle and I would like to take this opportunity to talk about some of the work that I’ve been doing behind-the-scenes.

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02Jun2021

Firefox 89: tabs on bottom

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Firefox Proton (Firefox 89) uses tabs on top

How to place tabs on bottom

Taming the dragon:  enabling the CSS

This article shows you how to change Firefox’s appearance from tabs on top (where the tabs appear above the URL address bar) to display the tabs below the URL address bar with CSS and a small browser tweak.Before the release of Firefox v57, it was possible to change the location of the tabs by changing a browser parameter setting.  FF89 does not have this setting.

We will see how it’s possible to change the location of the tabs.My earlier articles—Firefox: tabs on bottom, Firefox: tabs on bottom (again) and Firefox: tabs on bottom (third time around)—discuss Firefox before v89.  This article updates that advice following the release of FF89.

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09Nov2020

“Uh, Joomla! … I think we have a problem …”

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The two most important questions people ask about Joomla! 4

A concise history of the Joomla! 4 project

When should people be preparing themselves for J! 4

Ever since the Joomla! project announced that J! 3.x would be retired as J! 4 “comes to life”https://developer.joomla.org/news/676-joomla-3-retiring-as-joomla-4-comes-to-life.html in March 2017, the Joomla community has been waiting for news about this historic milestone.  To better prepare people for what has been promised, a number of commentators have written articles—most of them written in ways that people would probably interpret as marketing hype—over the past few years but still leaving a couple of very important questions unanswered.

The two most important—unanswered—questions are

  1. When will the first version of J! 4 be released that will be reliable enough for website owners to implement it?
  2. When will J! 4 overtake J! 3.x as the focus of the J! community for people who seeking a secure, robust, well-maintained and supported, open source solution with which to build their websites?

These questions are important because of the expectations promised nearly four years ago that J! 3.x was on its way out and therefore people have put their website redevelopment plans on hold waiting for when J! 4 is born.  After all, if a completely new, major software release is only a short time away, why spend your time using a technology that's at the end of its useful life?

This article will discuss these questions and provide you with background information—as best as I have been able to find it—to help you make your strategic plans regarding as to whether to (a) wait until J! 4 has been released, (b) continue to use J! 3.x for the foreseeable future (and possibly migrate to J! 4 later), or (c) abandon J! 4 altogether and go with something else.

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