CMS, Drupal, Free for Web, Joomla and Mambo
During the last few months we’ve had a lot of clients who are very technically knowledgeable and coming to us to find out more after picking up on the buzz around CMS systems and Drupal and Joomla in particular.
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After talking and developing answers for several clients, we decided to put all we’d written into one document to help other people with this decision. This is not an Drupal vs Joomla discussion. Some disclaimers before we start:
- An open acknowledgement that each choice is appropriate for different sites. Sometimes we have to tell clients that neither will work for what they want.
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Full article: http://www.glorilla.com
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Indexed in July 2008
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CMS, Joomla and Mambo, Promoting Website, SEO
Mambo has been dying a slow death since the split from Joomla. In fact, the last time I visited their site was when they were forking again!
Its sad to see a once-great project in such a state. Several links on the homepage are broken, only three users were in the forum compared to over 800 in the Joomla forums and the “Download Mambo” didn’t work.
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Even more shocking was that Siteground, whose antics we’ve covered here before, seem to have taken control of Mamboserver.com.
- Siteground dominate the homepage. I know they need financial support but 4 of the 7 frontpage stories are advertisements for Siteground. Theres also an ad for FilesFrom.com, completely unrelated to Joomla, but run by Peter Lamont, former project leader.
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Full article: http://www.alledia.com
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States
Indexed in June 2008
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CMS, Joomla and Mambo, Maintenance Web, Web Security
Last April Fools I made a joke that my website was hacked and turned upside down. When your website is really hacked, there’s nothing funny about it.
Joomla! is a great CMS that is used worldwide. For this reason, hackers often try to find a way to hack a Joomla! website. Here are 7 tips to optimize your Joomla! security, preventing your Joomla! website getting hacked..
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Remove version number / name of extensions
Most vulnerabilities only occur in a specific release of a specific extension. Showing MyExtension version 2.14 is a really bad thing. You can modify this message to only the name of the extension by doing the following:
- Retrieve all files of the extension from your server.
- Open up Dreamweaver.
- Load any file from the extension that you just downloaded to your local machine.
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Full article: http://www.marcofolio.net
License: Creative Commons
Indexed in June 2008
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CMS, Joomla and Mambo, Promoting Website, SEO
Last month we mentioned that Joomla was asking for whitepapers suggesting improvements for Joomla 1.6. So we got together some smart folk and came up with some SEO proposals.
Thanks to everyone involved, and please head over to the Joomla forums to post your opinions about these various ideas.
Joomla currently arranges the page title as site name first and article name second. An option to toggle this option would be good, even the option to not display site name at all or use the Title Alias.
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Neccesary for inclusion in Google News, the URL should be optionnaly prefixed with a numerical id, consisting of a creation date number, plus a unique id. Example : mysite.com/20080309/212/page-title.html. This URL should not vary when the page content is updated, to keep the url consistent.
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Full article: http://www.alledia.com
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States
Indexed in June 2008
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Accessibility, CMS, Joomla and Mambo
Clear and concise hypertext links are key to creating accessible website navigation.
But perhaps the most important issue for Joomla site administrators is ensuring that link text makes sense out of context.
Screen readers can create a list of all available links on a page to aid navigation, taken out of context a link such as “read more” makes little sense. To see this in action select “page info” from the Tools menu in firefox and then the links tab.
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A simple solution is to follow the advice Barrie North gives in his blog:”I have always advised Joomla webmasters to to use a great mambot from Run Digital. It makes the read more link include the title of the article, great for SEO.”
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Full article: http://www.alledia.com
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States
Indexed in June 2008
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CMS, Joomla and Mambo, Maintenance Web
This page provides instructions for Upgrading CiviCRM installations on Joomla from version 2.0.0 OR 2.0.1 to 2.0.2. If you are installing from scratch - instructions are here. If you are currently running 1.9 - use these 2.0 upgrade instructions.
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1. Download the v2.0.2 CiviCRM Package
2. Take the Site Offline (for production site upgrades)
When upgrading a production site, it is recommended that you take your site offline during the upgrade process.
Joomla 1.0.x/1.5.x: Site » Global Configuration » Site Offline » Yes
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Full article: http://wiki.civicrm.org
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5
Indexed in May 2008
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CMS, Joomla and Mambo, Video in Web
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been involved in setting up a couple of Joomla sites that have relied heavily on video. Man, it was frustrating.
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The Best Way is the YouTube Way
Why not copy the best?
From Wikipedia: “YouTube converts videos into .FLV (Adobe Flash Video) format after uploading…YouTube officially accepts uploaded videos in .WMV, .AVI, .MOV, MPEG and .MP4, formats”.
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Full article: http://www.alledia.com/blog/product-reviews/how-to-run-video-perfectly-in-joomla/
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States
Indexed in May 2008
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CMS, Drupal, Joomla and Mambo
The blog post Drupal vs. Joomla - Fight! pointed me to a discussion on the drupal-devel mailing list about the ohloh.net website which tries to gather some statistics/metrics about the code of Free Software projects..
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The following data is generated using David A. Wheeler’s SLOCCount (for the respective tarballs of the current stable releases):
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Full article: http://www.hermann-uwe.de
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
Indexed in May 2008
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CMS, Drupal, Joomla and Mambo
The next question on the first steps of this project is why Drupal? I could say lots of things, beginning with this is the first I came to from I like PostgreSQL but the very truth is I came to an interesting article which read:..
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Here are some Key pros and cons of the two systems.
Drupal
- Rock solid & high quality platform
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Joomla
- If you are not techy its good to start
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Full article: http://www.freesoftwarebench.org/en/why_drupal
License: Creative Commons
Indexed in May 2008
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CMS, Joomla and Mambo, SEO
One of the most importart SEO factors there days is the ability to setup unique page titles whic reflect the content of each page. In Joomla 1.0.x this can be a little bit tricky, because it has a standard way of creating a page title.
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To get Joomla to use the title alias, use this code:
1. Open the following file: ..
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Full article: http://www.marcofolio.net
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
Indexed in April 2008
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