Joomla websites can be slow, especially if you have a lot of extensions installed. Slow page speeds drive customers away from your website. Furthermore, since Google might consider page speed in its ranking, it’s more important than ever to have fast page speeds. JCH Optimize, a plugin for Joomla, is a fast, free, and easy way to speed up your site immediately. (more…)

AlphaRegistration for Joomla improves on the default Joomla Registration Component by adding Re Captcha to the registration process. In addition, it adds a visual, 3-step process and indicator to help eliminate confusion about the verification email sent during the registration process. (more…)

I just installed WordPress 3.0 and everything went without a hitch. Well, almost. More on that later. I just clicked the Upgrade button and my WordPress blog was upgraded from 2.9.x to 3.0. This WordPress upgrade includes 2,700 changes and 1,200 bug fixes. Should you upgrade? (more…)

Kuneri MobileJoomla provides instant conversion of your Joomla website for standard mobile phone platforms like iPhone,  Android, and BlackBerry. (more…)

Publishing to EzineArticles just got easier for WordPress bloggers thanks to EzineArticles new WordPress plugin. With EzineArticles’ new plugin, publishing your blog entries to EzineArticles is a two click process.

• Click One: Validate your WordPress Blog Entry for EzineArticles.
• Click Two: Submit your WordPress Blog Entry to EzineArticles.

In case you don’t know, EzineArticles is an article portal. Their business model is to publish articles and get advertising dollars. In addition, EzineArticles, and many other like them, provide a great Search Engine Optimization tool for websites. By publishing articles on EzineArticles.com, you can help boost your website ranking: The more articles you have, the better the boost.

If you already have WordPress and you already publish articles to EzineArticles, the WordPress EzineArticles plugin is a must.

You can get the EzineArticles WordPress Plugin Here

On April 29 Steve Jobs made it perfectly clear that there will be no Flash for the iPhone. Many people seem to think that Flash for the iPhone is the Holey Grail, that once the iPhone gets Flash, it will be the ultimate smart phone (that and a wireless carrier other than AT&T). (more…)

Firefox has a hidden feature for web designers: You can find line numbers on the View Source page. (more…)

I just upgraded my WordPress installation from 2.9 to 2.9.2. I was feeling lucky today, so I used the automatic update option. It worked perfectly, and I completed the update in less than a minute. Kudos to WordPress developers. Warning: If you use the automatic update feature, make sure you back up your WordPress database and all WordPress files first.

With Joomla, you can restrict front end access to individual menu items. For example, you can limit access to content linked to your menu, say, for Registered users only. Once you do this, a user will have to log in before they can access the link’s content. Click here to read how to restrict access to a Joomla menu item or Joomla Link.

Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development, by Joseph L. LeBlanc / PACKT Publishing, is a good introduction the Joomla Framework and to building Joomla Components, Joomla Modules, and JoomlaPlugins. (more…)