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Announcing: Joomla Contest

Posted by Richard Pearce
Richard Pearce
Owner of Build a Joomla Website. Responsible for 1 wife, 3 kids and 17 fish.
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on Wednesday, 22 June 2011
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I'm thrilled to announce the start of an initiative to help a non-profit organization, as well as promote the Joomla Project. But I need your help.

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How to Preview Articles

Posted by Richard Pearce
Richard Pearce
Owner of Build a Joomla Website. Responsible for 1 wife, 3 kids and 17 fish.
User is currently offline
on Thursday, 16 June 2011
in Tutorial

Previewing articles in Joomla has always been tricky, and it’s even trickier in Joomla 1.6, but we’re here to help.

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Case Study: CC2K

Posted by Richard Pearce
Richard Pearce
Owner of Build a Joomla Website. Responsible for 1 wife, 3 kids and 17 fish.
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on Thursday, 9 June 2011
in Case Study

This week we discuss the history of a long-established Joomla powered website called CC2K. Founded in 2004 and ported to Joomla in 2006, CC2K is a movie and pop-culture website that features reviews and essays.

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Admin Tools Review

Posted by Richard Pearce
Richard Pearce
Owner of Build a Joomla Website. Responsible for 1 wife, 3 kids and 17 fish.
User is currently offline
on Wednesday, 25 May 2011
in Review

Joomla's great, but it can't do it all. For example, even beginner web developers know that the way to access the login page for a Joomla website admin panel is to simply add "/administrator/" to the root URL of the website. That's convenient, but it can also leave a website vulnerable to hackers who might try to brute-force their way into your site. This article reviews an extension that makes it easy to fix common Joomla vulnerabilities.

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Migrating to Joomla 1.6

Posted by Richard Pearce
Richard Pearce
Owner of Build a Joomla Website. Responsible for 1 wife, 3 kids and 17 fish.
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on Thursday, 19 May 2011
in General

The release of Joomla 1.6 presented developers with a host of challenges – chief among them, how to migrate a 1.5 site to 1.6?

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Facebook: Is it worth it?

Posted by Richard Pearce
Richard Pearce
Owner of Build a Joomla Website. Responsible for 1 wife, 3 kids and 17 fish.
User is currently offline
on Tuesday, 10 May 2011
in General
Conventional wisdom holds that social media, including Facebook, is crucial to the promotion of any serious website. But is Facebook promotion worth it? This article helps you decide.
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Create anchor links to article titles

Posted by Richard Pearce
Richard Pearce
Owner of Build a Joomla Website. Responsible for 1 wife, 3 kids and 17 fish.
User is currently offline
on Wednesday, 4 May 2011
in Tutorial

Sometimes when you have a list of articles on one page, such as a category blog layout, you might like to create a link to that page that jumps straight to the start of a particular article. It is easy to create an anchor within an article with Joomla, but making the title an anchor is rather tricky. Here's how to do it.

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Add flair to your headings with Google Web Fonts

Posted by Richard Pearce
Richard Pearce
Owner of Build a Joomla Website. Responsible for 1 wife, 3 kids and 17 fish.
User is currently offline
on Wednesday, 20 April 2011
in General
Have you ever wanted to use a specific font on your website, only to be thwarted by the limitations of web-friendly fonts and CSS? This tutorial demonstrates how to use Google Web Fonts on your Joomla powered website.
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Review: Tienda Ecommerce

Posted by Richard Pearce
Richard Pearce
Owner of Build a Joomla Website. Responsible for 1 wife, 3 kids and 17 fish.
User is currently offline
on Wednesday, 13 April 2011
in Extensions

We have just completed a 15 part series of tutorials on how to build a Joomla powered eCommerce site using an extension called Tienda. Advanced subscribers can login and watch these now. This article is a review of Tienda.

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Joomla 1.6 Categories

Posted by Richard Pearce
Richard Pearce
Owner of Build a Joomla Website. Responsible for 1 wife, 3 kids and 17 fish.
User is currently offline
on Tuesday, 5 April 2011
in General

We've received a lot of emails asking about the different method that is used when storing articles in Joomla 1.6. The good news is, it's really easy and very similar to 1.5.

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