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…)

Upgrade to Internet Explorer 8

Internet Explorer 6 is an insecure and extremely buggy browser.

Designing a web site to work with Internet Explorer 6 adds 30% to your website development costs. We recommend that you upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or 8. Or, try these other browsers:

• Firefox (Awesome browser with hundreds of useful plugins)
• Google Chrome
• Safari (For PC or Mac)
• Opera

X-Cart just released version 4.3, and it’s a great improvement. The main changes are: Advanced Order Management; Flyout, Expandable Menus; AJAX Mini Cart and Search; New CSS Templates. And X-Cart 4.3 is FASTER! (more…)

You can use Firebug, a plugin for Firefox browser, to fix css problems in Joomla, Wordpress, or any web page. There are a lot of questions on the Joomla forum regarding problems with css and Joomla templates, especially with IE6, IE7, or IE8. These problems can be hard to find and fix. Firebug makes finding css problems, or understanding css, much easier than looking at the page source alone. Check out my new Joomla video tutorial that explains how to use Firebug to determine how a web page is built with css.

Google, the company that never stands still, is developing software that could speed up web page loading speed by as much as 60%. This software technology, call SYDY, will be used in the user’s web browser and the web server. Read More

If you’re looking for a free, fast, online image editor, look no further, Splashup is perfect. www.splashup.com/

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I found that Firefox 3.5.3 has been very slow due to the Firebug plugin. And I found out how to fix the problem. (more…)

If you have a website, then you might want to pay attention to the following video. No sure of the validity of their facts, but it definitely makes you see the power of social media such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc. I thought of it as a worthless use of time and bandwidth, but I’ve been wrong before.

If you use CSS dropdown menus, you probably know you need to use a hack to make the drop down work in Internet Explorer 6 (IE6). A briliant hack was created by Peter Nederlof (you can download it at www.xs4all.nl/~peterned). I have used it successfully for a couple years, but when I loaded a website onto a new host, the css dropdown menus didn’t work. (more…)