Randy Carey

01 August 2014

JoomlaDay Minnesota and the Hope for a Local Joomla! Community

Imagine a large city with no active Joomla user group and only a handful of publicly visible Joomla users. How did its first JoomlaDay attract over 100 attendees? Will this ignite a new local community of Joomla enthusiasts?

03 June 2014

Canales, divisiones, y la muerte de la "Página Web"

¿Cual es la estrategia de contenidos que han considerado los líderes conceptuales, para este año? Si tienen razón...,¿ que podría significar para Joomla?

01 May 2014

Channels, Chunks, and the Death of the "Web Page"

What are some of the thought-leaders in content strategy saying this year? If they are right, what might this imply for Joomla?

01 April 2014

Core Features I Want from the Components I Choose

The “core” components provide several valuable features like tags, versioning, and ACL settings per category. These features are available for integration and use in third-party components, but too often these components ignore them. Here is a list of the ”core” features I look for when I evaluate components. Think about them, and you might find that you want them, too.

01 March 2014

Why Universities Should Consider Joomla

If I were to return to university teaching, I would select Joomla as a web platform for student assignments. Here’s why...

01 November 2013

Introducing the 'Client' Template

If your clients want a simpler backend to their websites, don’t log them in to an 'admin' template – serve them a 'client' template.

01 March 2013

Adding Access Control through Overrides

What if the component you want to use does not implement the ACL features you need to have? One approach is to add access control through Joomla's output overrides.

01 September 2012

Implementing Role-Based ACL

A role represents the permissions and access needed to do a task. Once roles have been set-up, one can intuitively assign, aggregate, transfer, and share these roles among CMS users. Here is a straight-forward approach to implementing roles in Joomla.

01 August 2012

A Case for Role-Based ACL

If your client has more than one person maintaining the site, you should consider providing role-based ACL. What is "role-based" ACL and why should you use it instead of the 1.5 approach of ACL?