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A wake-up call for people using old versions of Joomla
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- 18150 hits Updated: 07 November 2022 Blog
Doing nothing about it
It’s unsurprising, really, that technical self-help forums receive a lot of urgent cries for help from people who have old websites built with outdated, unsupported and obsolete software. It’s just human nature to build something and then “hope for the best” that the structure will last, more or less indefinitely, without having to maintain it.
The world of technology isn’t like that.
The technological landscape we knew ten years ago is vastly changed. The iPhone hadn’t been invented. People were still using Internet Explorer 4 or Netscape Navigator 2 (remember them?) and they went to bookshops to buy reference manuals! So, is it really surprising that websites that were built a few years ago are, today, showing their age?
Why is it, then, that the majority of websites are still running on outdated, obsolete and unsupported platforms?
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Returning to Joomla 10 years later
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“They don’t make things like that anymore.”
I was intrigued when I read a question on the Joomla forum today that read, in part:
For those who go back with Joomla a decade ago, are old Joomla extensions—modules, components, plugins or even templates—still compatible with the current version? I know already, from trial and error, I haven’t seen any templates that are which is a shame—I have a lot of them I paid for from various developers. The same goes for many premium extensions I have, so I was curious if it is an issue where it just depends on the extension or if it is a flat out “no”, none of these is compatible with today’s Joomla?a forum user, Joomla Forum, 17-Aug-2018
This article discusses some of these questions.
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Joomla! books reviewed
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A list of useful books on Joomla!
When I first became interested in Joomla I knew very little about it. Until that time I had created intranet websites “by hand” using nothing more than a text editor, a web browser and an understanding of Microsoft IIS. Therefore, when someone suggested that I look into GUI-driven website creation (based on Apache, PHP and MySQL) I had no idea how out-of-touch I had been. That was over 10 years ago and today, even though I don't buy new books on Joomla, it’s been one of my unfulfilled intentions to share the names of a few books that I've purchased on the subject. I suspect that most people reading this list will probably find that some of the books are outdated (and there are probably better other titles on the market).
This article is a “bookend” to my earlier article on books about webcraft in general.
This article contains a list of books about the Joomla! content management system: the list includes user guides as well as some more specialised aspects about building extensions for Joomla. The following books are from my personal library—sorted alphabetically by title by publisher—together with a few notes about each of them.
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General webcraft books reviewed
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A list of useful books on webcraft
Books are one of the things that you can buy that will make you richer.Kajal Thakkar, Why do we love books?, 30-Aug-2016
Although the internet puts us instantly in touch with up-to-date information (even if it’s a bit like the “wild west” out there) I’ve always like books—non-fiction, technical, reference books in particular—because there’s something comforting about their feel, their durability. In the thirty or so years that I’ve been involved in webcraft—professionally and as a hobby—I’ve collected a small library of books on various subjects related to this pursuit. Owing to speed at which we’re seeing developments in webcraft occurring, coupled with the disappearance of book stores because of the growth in e-publishing, it has become increasingly difficult to find real books—ones that are printed on paper—to satisfy all our needs.
This article contains a list of general purpose books about webcraft: the list includes books on web-design and style, programming languages, web-based applications, theory and practice. The following books are from my personal library—sorted alphabetically by title by publisher—together with a few notes about each of them.
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