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Migration - Joomla 1.5 - 2.5.1

Joomla 1.5.x range is coming to end of life in Joomla's eyes and this is a great milestone in regards to the ongoing development and life of Joomla as a Content Management System. There is alot of people that have used Joomla 1.5.x over the last few years and this means that there are alot of people who are going to be looking for a guide / solution to migrating to Joomla 2.5.1. I have gone through and compiled a general overview which will enable users and site owners of Joomla 1.5.x based websites to take their sites to the latest versions. This document is not going to be the most user friendly but at the end of the day this is designed to be a overview not a step by step instruction manual. The process of completing an upgrade to the latest version should take approximately 8 hours depending on what 3rd party extensions and modifications you have got done to your site.

Joomla going to 2.5

Joomla in the past 12 months or so has undertaken some massive changes, most of which are for the best. Whether everyone agrees with their ideas or where it is going I am not sure and personally do not care as the product that is produced is what everyone ultimately uses and cares about. This being said I thought I would shed some light on the changes for those of you who are not aware of the changes and what positive effects it can have on you and your Joomla based website (if you have one).

Limitations with Importing Subscribers CCnewsletter

When migrating to a new newsletter system namely from Letterman (old CCNewsletter) to the new version of CCNewsletter it is pretty straight forward the only problem is that if you have a site that is a couple of years old which has a couple of thousand newsletter subscribers you soon hit a snag with the export and import process.

Mosets Tree & Legacy Mode

Developing a joomla directory site you generally make a smart move by using a strong and robust system like Mosets Tree. This component is a directory package which is not only very popular but I would go as far to say that it is amongst the best of the joomla components around today. There have been a few sites that I have been involved in that use Mosets Tree. One of late has taken alot of time but also pushed the envelope when it came to performing some basic functions that Joomla has in its article manager.

Joomla Template – Front Page Component Modification

If you are having troubles like I have had over the last couple of hours finding a coding solution to the front page component with joomla. I have made a great work around which will enable you to fix the tags being randomly inserted and screwing up your columns and footer areas after the content panel.

Default Joomla Admin User Changer

For those of you who use Joomla regularly to develop your website you may not have realised this but each install you do has one common element with almost every other Joomla installation out there on the internet. Now for some of you reading this you are probably thinking “oh sure… whatever… you are definitly smoking alot of heavy drugs…” or “What are you on about?!?!?”… Sure there are alot of common elements between each joomla install that you make and after building a few Joomla sites you have a series of steps you take each time you install the software on your new site(s). Here is a couple of basic things that you should do to secure your installation of Joomla. This information I have colated after about 4 years of using Joomla right from version 1.0.9.

Book - Joomla Made Easy

Over the last couple of weeks I have been getting asked for a good Joomla tutorial guide. While I have had to sadly turn people away with no real definitive solution or place to go to I have done some research and found a great product which as the title suggests “Joomla Made Easy” does make Joomla easy. This complete guide comes with not only a great step by step guide on how to install, configure and use Joomla but it also comes with Joomla templates, addon modules and guides on how to create membership sites.

Frontpage Component Updated

A little while ago an article was published on this website titled “Joomla Template – Front Page Component Modification“. In this article we covered how to enable the frontpage component to work in an “Out of the box” styled scenario when building your own custom template. Since then a website has being getting built that is using the frontpage component. During the development of this site I have developed the frontpage component further.

Joomla Tutorials

Have you been searching for joomla tutorials on how to build a quality website using Joomla? Well if you have then you have made a start towards using amongst the worlds best Content Management System. I have been using Joomla myself for the past 4 years and in that time I have learnt alot more about one content management system than I thought was ever possible. This was made possible through the development of components and modules by other like minded people who saw the power of Joomla. These people saw the power of Joomla pretty quickly after it was released to the public.