Considering you liked the late century so much (remember the flashing fonts or animated gifs) that you don't have a Joomla! website YET. Finally, the candy competing websites (owned by other providers in your business field) stirred enough envy thoughout your brain's backgrounds to determine you make the move: dumping THE old school Dreamweaver hard coded, proprietary/tributary, non maintainable, HTML static site of yours, dump IT right away!

Welcome to Joomla! This is the world's most popular CMS (that goes for Content Management System) web site engine. Modular and versatile. Way more than a blog and a tad less than expensive big corp owned Java monster web applications. Let me tell ya something: Joomla is the Volkswagen of the web era!

How to get one? Simple do:

Write Erik a short message (click this link); or

Fill in a Joomla! secure installation feedback form so we may know to get in touch with you ASAP.

Assuming you're already having a Joomla! site up and running. Hey, it's no big deal for many to click few buttons in their hosting panel and Voila! the Joomla! website has been automatically put in place by a Fantastico script.
But what are you gonna do when it dawns on you that:

1. The template is so... common. Your site's looks won't stand above the average.
2. That groovy AJAX web2.something extension won't play the way you wanting. Or...
3. You messed up some ancient good serving extensions with the latest automated upgrade of your Joomla!

What to do then?

• First: take a few minutes tour of our Joomla!People sites so you get the feeling about who we are and what we're doing for a living.
• Second: Ask your questions in our JP community forums.
• Third: If you're so satisfied with our service response and quality that you can't help yourself, then subscribe to one of our Joomla!People packs. Trust me, it will save you time and money for good added value servicing.

Sometimes you really want your latest posted article to show up on top of the stack on your fancy dandy groovy Joomla site. Quite a normal desire, I might add...

An always excellent start is to go in your Joomla backend > Menu manager > pick up your menu > edit menu item > parameters [advanced] > Category order / Primary order > Most recent first; apply and check it out. If not properly sorting your articles in the frontend blog, then keep reading...

Say you have to clone a Joomla site. If you do that through normal SSH, or [S]FTP if you're having time, and phpmyadmin, then, when coming the next Joomla upgrade, you'll have to do that by hand: same SSH, or FTP.

Here's a way to clone a Joomla site while keeping it under Fantastico script install and inherent one click button upgrades follow-ups, this is hopefully written in an easy to read and understandable format so if your online knowledge goes only as far as Chat bingo or a social networking site, then you should still be able to clone the site:

Quite some of our customers were asking us to develop customized complex feedback forms in Joomla, detailed down to the tiniest design pixel positioning. See this example, for instance, on ellco.no - where we used Joomla Artforms' practically infinite customizing capabilities to deliver specially crafted forms.

Saturday morning. Crossing the midnight with a finger on Slashdot feeds. After breakfast had to watch "Lissy und der wilde Kaiser". Had to? Yes, could not help myself. Then back to see why the Trac install for webverksted.no, which I did before breakfast, right after dawn, has some login ssh configs to go before giving Erik and Aleks a free way into sharing and versioning tons of files, and projects.

Gotta blog some here on JP while the ladies in house finish the cleaning and some broccoli green stuff.

We're set to launch JP anew this weekend. It's about time. So watch this blog: I'll be back.

When cloning Joomla sites on custom inhouse servers, it happens that Flex_header won't catch up correctly with SOME of certain menu itemids unless:

1. You clear the cache of sh404.
2. You then disable the component entirely. No need to uninstall it, just check the NO button in the 'Enable' configuration field.
3. Then do some casual browsing over the frontend, make sure the Flex_header rearranged images are catching up correctly. If so, go on and enable the sh404SEF component.

Oh BTW, our Joomla!People team has just opened a web utility for servicing PSD to XHTML template hand coding requests. This goes for more than Joomla! Check it out here at secure-installation.com - yes, enhanced security web hosting included, if needed...

When having to insert special [custom] tags in articles code, Joomla 1.5.8 will invariably filter them out. And that's bad, at first glance: think you're having to embed some flashy ajax objects or some Youtube vids for that matter, or even the nice invisible ones sitting on top of news articles destined to show up in RokNewsRotator.

The cause: starting with J1.5.8, the default Article Filter setting is set on 'black list' for every user level. This means no more playing around with fire - read XSS [cross site scripting] attacks.

When Joomla 1.5.x is having the core SEF enabled, it's gonna overwrite .htaccess instructions, like this one:
ErrorDocument 404 /404-oops.html
...where you're gently telling the Apache to redirect nonsense urls to a nice and comprehensively helpful page.
Now, here's the workaround inside Joomla code: