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Transferring a domain to a new host with minimal downtime requires careful planning. Here’s the best approach:

Disaster Recovery Plan

 In today’s digital landscape, ensuring business continuity is more than just a good idea - it's a necessity.

We've all been there: you're working on an article in Joomla and close it without saving. Gone is your work - or isn't it? Brian Teeman explains how to retrieve an article you hadn't saved yet.

You may have seen them in form fields: labels that seem to float above the field as you're typing. Can you make those in your Joomla website as well? Yes you can! Brian Teeman explains how. 

Joomla's template override functionality allows users to customize the default layout of components, modules, and views, providing extensive flexibility for creating unique designs. Managing template overrides effectively will minimize maintenance challenges on updates.

Have you ever shared a link on Facebook only to find the thumbnail was missing, or there was a different picture than you expected? If you don't explicitly tell Facebook what image to use then it makes a guess.

In this tutorial I will be building on the full screen home page design that I demonstrated in last month's tutorial How to create a full screen photograph home page to create a more native app look to the template.

Everything I am going to show here could have been done by creating my own template but as I wanted to ensure that it would be future proof I have done it with CSS, a tiny bit of javascript, and existing Cassiopeia template options. 

There is a place and a time for everything. The current trend is to use Generative AI and LLM (large language models) for everything, but we're not there yet. Although technically inaccurate I will refer to this as AI throughout this article.

Over the last few weeks I have been rebuilding a joomla website that was built with a pagebuilder using just core Joomla and the core Cassiopeia template. This wasn't for a client, it was just as an exercise to satisfy my own belief that you don't need a pagebuilder.