Joomla 1.5.6 Security Fix and Some advice on Protection

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Joomla just released version 1.5.6. of its Open Source CMS. This release is an security fix that fixes a leak that "will allow an unauthenticated, unauthorized user to reset the password of the first enabled user (lowest id)". So if you run a Joomla 1.5.x website, make sure you update soon! asap would be fine :-) For the rest, you can read that even a seasoned Joomla administrator sometimes forget to put a basic security practice in place. Here are some tips to make your … [Read more...]

+Herbert-Jan van Dinther

Water & Stone Reporting on Open Source CMS Market 2008

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Today I read a Report from Water & Stone, a big name in the Mambo community as one of there Templates is a great looking one with a lot of installations. The report (which you can download here) brings numbers and conclusions on Market shares of Open Source CMS like Joomla!, Drupal, WordPress and many others like e107,Typo3, Modx, Elgg en more... In the report there are clearly three Big names in Open Source CMS, not that we did not know who the leaders are, but Rik Shreves does a great … [Read more...]

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Joomla 1.5.5 and SEF Improvements

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Joomla released a new version 1.5.5 after just three weeks of the 1.5.4. release. That release had a serious defect in producing duplicate title code in the HTML output, that has been fixed in this new release. But they did not stop at that... they went on to improve the SEF part of this new version. Some of these improvements are also targeted to the SEF URLs, especially for Blog section and categories. If you want to know more about the improvement in this version, please check Joomla … [Read more...]

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Viral Marketing for On-line store Hema

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I just wanted you to see this one.... it is not about Joomla, but really about viral marketing.This thing already has gotten an Webby Awards for Viral Marketing and they worked really hard to get this stuff done.Building storyboards and testing in real life with real products to see if it was possible what they toughed up.I think this kind of detail is essential if you want to create something that will be produced for Viral marketing.This Marketing product was created to promote the … [Read more...]

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Joomla instead of WordPress and some Joomla SEO Works

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After writing my last Joomla SEO Blog post, I started working on a Clients website with WordPress as Content Management System.However running more into the project I hit some technical difficulties in getting the content together in a Joomla SEO Site structure (no, not the layout) to get an optimal results for Search Engine Optimization.So I made the decision to offer the client to redo the site with Joomla, also since his site content was much more than I initially saw on this old Flash … [Read more...]

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Search Engine Friendly? A WordPress, Joomla and Drupal Comparison.

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First off, search engine friendly is not the same as search engine optimized! This is something Joost de Valk already wrote about in his post Search Engine Friendly vs Search Engine Optimized Search engine optimization does go a lot further then making a search engine friendly website, and building a Content Management system for websites that is search engine optimized..., that is just not possible... What is possible is to look at the search engine friendliness of three popular Open … [Read more...]

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