One of our Joomla training members asked us if there an extension that can create a "facebook style footer admin panel" like the one found at the bottom of Facebook.com. The answer is yes, thanks to an extension called UserToolbar.
We've written often about K2, the excellent content extension for Joomla. You can read and watch our introductions here in Part 1 and Part 2. In this tutorial we'll show you how to use JComments instead of native K2 comments. Why would you want do…
One of our Joomla training members asked this question: "I need to give access to certain login individuals to specific content."
One of our Joomla training members wanted to place an agreement in front of their users on certain pages. They wanted to force them to agree before going any further.
One of the most common questions we get from our Joomla training students now is: "how do I make my Joomla site ready for mobile phones?" There are two different ways to do this and the choice depends largely on whether you have a template…
There are several ways to make sure that your Joomla site is easy to read and browser on mobile phones. Recently we wrote The Ultimate Mobile Joomla Guide which covered 5 options in detail. In this tutorial we're going to explain more about Mobile Joomla…
A common problem experienced while using Joomla extensions is the infamous "Illegal mix of collations (utf8_general_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_unicode_ci,IMPLICIT) for operation '=' SQL=SELECT......." This is something that can be quite tricky for a new Joomla user to fix, however not any more. This tutorial will walk…
One of our students had a client that needed a shop setup in Virtuemart which would have about 1,000 products. Rather than create all the products manually, we created this tutorial for our student so that he could automate the process and import all the…
If you want to quickly get rid of your site's visitors, keep your site as slow as possible. However, if you want to make sure that your visitors have smooth transitions from page to page, then do everything in your power to speed things up…